Facebook is a repulsive mess these days. When I first joined in 2007 it had no ads, no bs, no dumb notifications. It was just a social platform for me and my friends and our interests.
The shit that hurts the most, is that I have a lot of pictures and check-ins from the 2007-2013 era I don't want to lose. That's the only reason I still have a Facebook.
I used to spend $1 on ads to promote my comic book series and get real people interested. If I went back to it, the ad would get 0 engagements and would likely be buried in ad Hades.
Remember when your feed was just the latest things that people posted by the time they posted. You could just scroll downwards and see what people were saying. Now it's literally unusable. Aside from a couple groups I check out for my hobby, I don't do anything else on facebook, actually that's not entirely true. Every day I log in, I check my memories, and delete 99% of them.
After watching I went over to Facebook just out of curiosity, i was trying really hard not to laugh too loud when the 5th post i saw was from a page called "cozy homes" and was just a picture of a couch and a window next to the sea
AND NOW THERE'S AN IMAGE OF 2 WOMEN FACING EACH OTHER, ONE WITH 2 FACES 1 OF WHICH IS A KID, THE OTHER HAS FINGERS COMING OUT OF HER HEAD, GER ARM IS A SNAKE AND THE OVERALL SHAPE OF THE THING ALSO LOOKS LIKE JESUS FACE
@@mdigidrop6911 This made _me_ go check, and the first things I saw were an AI generated picture of fat tinkerbell, another of the moon visibly melting down a mountainside at twilight from a group titled "Amazing US," and an ex-friend ranting about demons (he means real, actual religious-style demons) and how humans shouldn't get to thinking they're any better because judging yourself to be more moral than a literal, biblical demon is the sin of Pride. This is rather tame for him, and there is a reason we no longer speak. I had to scroll a little bit to find it, but I did indeed have one from Cozy Homes. Mine was two beds, the only dry places to stand in an otherwise submerged cave devoid of decoration. The headboard of one bed was blocking the only doorway. If you were leaving the house for any reason in this totally legit, absolutely-not-AI universe, you'd have to climb over the furniture and drop like a sack of potatoes on the other side, or swim out to sea and along the coast.
Back in 2010, if you were in your 20s, you were weird to not have a FB, I made one like 3 years later, right on time when everyone stopped f*cking using it. Now I log in and I can see pictures of those people that told me to get on FB from 2014 and nothing since.
@@laurocoman That was also the trend where I (probably like most) added every friend, classmate, or coworker/boss I had *ever* had. And then over the next few years realized that "No, I'm totally good with not being connected to most of them anymore".
@@lluewhyn yeah, I talked with most of those people for the last time 10 years ago. We don't live in the same town, hell, some of them left the country so there is no point at all in this ordeal. Even if I did want to talk to them, they are not really active there, even less than myself.
Clearly Ryan is trying to hold onto his Litarded audience… no one wants to “punch an illegal in the face” we all just wanna send EIGHT MILLION illegals - legally - back to where they came from… But I agree with Twitter… while Elon has done wonders for ESTABLISHED Content Creators to post FREELY… anyone signing up for engagement is simply Xed out… dropping my unrewarded, unacknowledged account coming this June.
yeah, and the other completely true thing is: real users abandoned the place because they got to know how other real users think. It is no coincidence that the only real user talks s*** about immigrants. :)
Yeah twitter and FB are dead, the two biggest platforms apart from maybe RU-vid. RU-vid is doing okay, reddit is okay, I hear threads isn't bad but I haven't been on there. IG is trying to be tiktok and is slowly dying. Tiktok is just obnoxious trends, but tiktok and RU-vid might be the best we have.
@@jasondaniel6021 I mean, those are some of the big chunks of it. What's left is pornography and services that use the internet to function (like online gaming). The social part of the internet is definitely worsening.
this is pretty accurately describing why I deleted all social media except RU-vid in 2017 and haven't looked back. It's like owning a cable TV subscription in 2024.
Even youtube sucks though. I pay for premium (I use RU-vid Music as my streaming service) so thankfully no ads, but my recommendations are either nothing but channels I've watched before, or content that I have TOLD RU-vid that I have no interest in. Like every few weeks it'll suggest a restoration video, even though every time I click "Not interested". These platforms don't care about or need users anymore.
@@davidthedeaf - it's good to have a landline for emergencies. If there's a power outage, cellphone towers can get too busy to be used, but the landline will work even without power.
Mine had suggestions to join gardening groups I had never heard of in my area, we evidently had 4. It also showed that it was several people’s birthdays, and one person poked me.
The last time I logged into Facebook, which was about nine years ago, I received a poke from my sister who had died two years earlier. It made me question what I always had thought of as the most obvious book title ever “death comes as the end” by Agatha Christie.
It's like the experience of getting to see how life would go on were you to die Expect that life was a fake piece of shit you didn't really care for since 2016
Coincidentally, I've been off Facebook for a week, the sponsored ads and other content posted in which I have less than zero interest and some of which is distressing to me, has mushroomed so much, scrolling is an unpleasant experience of blocking every third post. This video absolutely nailed the experience!
I'm the opposite, I came back after years away. Social fixer and/or FB fluffy buster addons pretty much get rid of all that BS. I have just a couple dozen mates and family on there (no crazies) and it's almost like the old pre-ad days. It's not bad.
I only have a profile to use messenger.. and my logins.. Facebook itself is so horrible that i very rarely open it .. jebus what a dumpster of ads all day long 😓
I SWEAR TO GOD. I begged all my friends not to go to Facebook and they were like 'No, man, it's the future. It's gonna have so many cool things'. So I was just alone on MySpace with a bunch of shitty emo bands. Facebook even looked like corporate trash back then. After my 37th alt account was killed a few years ago, I never made another one and I feel great about it. The only people who actually enjoy FB are the elderly.
The most drama was getting knocked out of the Top 8. You could always tell who was mad at you or that your relationship was over. Send a text using t9 'Oh it's like that, huh?'
"No, but we've stopped pretending that that has any effect on what we show you." Perfect description of what they've done. Them and X (formerly Twitter).
Makes sense. You can never go back to "the way it was" with ANYTHING. Instead, ya gotta take a bite outta the sheet sandwich named "ham & cheese & how it *IS*". 😂🤣😂 #copium
The existence of the "suggested" post is what finally got me to delete facebook. I can understand the occasional sponsored post, businesses need revenue, but I sat and counted 80+ posts that were a combination of sponsored posts and suggested posts between 2 posts by friends. I don't care if my friends don't post enough, if after seeing a post from one of my friends you find it appropriate to show me 80+ posts that are just advertising and other content I didn't ask for before showing the 2nd post made by one of my actual friends you can go kick rocks with your service.
I got disillusioned with Facebook fairly early and pulled back from it (didn't delete my account outright, but stopped posting or visiting around 11-12 years ago), after seeing just how mindlessly addicted to it some of my peers were becoming. At this point looking back I'm glad it worked out like that.
AI: "Hi there hello. My purpose is to eliminate friction and improve analytics and resource utilization across your organization. Also you have 15 fingers I decided"
Pro tip. The dprk isn't democratic, ai isn't ai, and calling myself the tallest man on earth doesn't magically make me grow 2 feet taller. You gotta be less gullible. Calling 30 year old comparative algorithms 'ai' doesn't make it skynet.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx🙄 This old chestnut. No, calling something "AI" does not magically make a legitimate artificially sentient being. However, unless you've been living under a rock this past five years, you'll have noticed that 'AI' is now the commonly accepted synonym for machine learning models, large language models, and other generative systems. It's literally pointless to correct at this point.
@@PositiveOnly-dm3rx technically the definition isn't wrong as AI as just used as a general term to mean computers making decisions on things we normally would associate as a task requiring a human input. In the broadest definition even a simple decision tree application is AI. You're correct that none of these things are artificial general intelligence though, and the general populace treating them like they are is exhausting, even more so for those of us who work in the field. I've spent more time in the last six months explaining that its all just math than I have in the last five years before that.
@@obsidianjane4413 He's around my age. I can't speak for other people my age, but I will say that I grew up on MySpace and I've disliked Facebook for pretty much its entire existence (I dislike it more now, though). Kinda feel like it caught on more with boomers than with millennials.
The Dead Internet Theory looks more right and accurate by the day. Also the Spider-Dog is both creepy and adorable at the same time. Your eyes start at the top half and you say, adorable, then you see the spider legs part and it just makes you pause and and wonder if its too late to look for images of kittens instead.
@@master_miller First Time I read about it, but I might assume AI is killing the Internet as it makes it impossible to use to communicate. No way to know if the other person on the other side is real or an AI. Sure, we had to deal with bought Troll for years now but there was always the cost factor to utilize them. Now with AI we will see having one AI posing as a human raging against another AI posing as a human over some weird party politics issue and as an observer you can never know if those are real or not. This makes the Internet as a media to communicate rather useless.
@@master_miller Because it's the (conspiracy) theory about the internet being mostly populated by bots talking to other bots (which has been proven to cause bot-specific slang to evolve). With the huge push of every company to try to use "AI" (they're really using "Language Learning Models," which are more an Autocorrect than AI, but because marketing jerks have pushed for it to be the colloquial term and the public ate it up, we'll just call it "AI" for this comment) for every major, minor, and edge case, the appearance of the internet is largely beginning to resemble just that, including the bot-specific slang popping up all over. Note: If you want to know if current AI/LLM is good for your use-case, replace "AI" and/or "LLM" with "Drunken undergrads" and see if you still want to risk it. As in, "The hospital plans to use [AI / Drunken Undergrads] to diagnose patients, saving time and money otherwise spent on trained physicians." Google has implemented AI in its search engine to the point that it now gets a not insubstantial amount of complaints of fabricated links and website descriptions that are either inaccurate, outright misleading, or don't actually exist. All major social media companies have either upgraded from algorithms to LLM/AI's to push "content" (anything they think will make you respond) to improve "engagement" (any response or interaction, but rage is the easiest and thus most common form sought). Scammers use AI to make fake images or documents, and see the inaccuracies as a feature, since most scams use those to self-deselect people who wouldn't fall for the scam. TechBros use AI to fabricate creative content (badly) so that they don't have to pay the people who spent years to training to do that. And that's not even getting into the entire ethics discussion; this is just an explanation of why people are bringing up the "Dead Internet Theory."
Or not. "How do you know it's horrible?" "From experience. I've seen children with faces that were made by AI that were not suitable to look at themselves" "Oh..."
This is exactly why every time a website starts to open facebook without warning me I act like someone offered to unleash a bag of spiders into my bathroom.
Ryan George, I would like to thank you for your contributions to society, art and media. You have a sense of understanding the nuances of our world and communicate the humor of what you say in a way nigh unto perfection. Thank you. Sincerely, thank you.
"So, you have a Ryan George sketch for me?" "Yes sir I do. I was thinking we could do another one of those talking to websites as if they were people videos?" "Oh, you mean like the type we just released a complete compilation video of last week?" "Yes sir, exactly like that" "Kind of missed the boat on that one didn't ya?" "What do you mean, sir?" "Well now the compilation video won't be complete." "Oh yeah I guess so, whoops." "Whoopsie"
Yep, sounds about right. My feed's filled with suggested posts and irrelevant "reels". I hardly see any of my actual friends' content hidden beneath all the ad-filled mush.
I have found that commenting on a friend's post helps. Helps to fill your entire feed with that friend's posts and nothing else. Honestly the site is entirely fucked now and they don't care, since comment bots drive engagement on bot-created posts to generate ad revenue from bot-created ads.
tbf the feed was always a disaster. Smhw back in the day I felt a lot more comfortable with my IRL ID being on all my online interactions. Facebook is just weird.
Exactly. "Back in the day" it was good to see updates and things from casual friends that you don't necessarily keep in regular contact with IRL. Just to know how they're doing. Now it's like 50 "Sponsored" or "Suggested" post for every one actual friends' post. It's pointless. And sometimes you're thinking "Just what exactly is the algorithm doing that makes them think THESE are the type of things I'd find interesting."
I once logged in to see what my old friends were up to that I haven't seen in years. They've all either moved abroad or at least out of the shitty expensive big city we grew up in, posting beautiful wedding photos with mountains in the background, or doing something positive like became a children's teacher, or just had their 3rd baby, and one became a snowboard instructor doing something completely different from what we went to college together for...All of them making something of their lives, living the life I can only imagine. Meanwhile I see myself and...well, y'know, the complete opposite of all of them. I'm just going to now make some tea, and stare out into the distance.
screw that! i'm a disaster zone AND a terminally antisocial. Trick is to steer clear of sane, rational perspectives, tell reality that it is #2 on your list of priorities and embrace denial. This alone can turn the worst place into the best - if you think it, it's real. If you don't think it, it stops being real. Denial #1, Reality #2. Or maybe like #14 but trust me on the denial.
@@TalentedLMT Well, one friend couple is divorced and a single parent now while going through a rough custody battle, so there's that at least. Oh, and my ex from high school that I gave my heart to that dumped me, is also now alone as a wine cat-lady after getting pumped and dumped multiple times, so there's also that schadenfreude.
Don't feel bad, I'm in the same boat. I see all of my friends and family getting married and having kids and traveling and stuff, and then there's me, sitting alone in my house and I can't even get one match on dating apps.
I was last on Facebook for my birthday in 2019. I have come back once a year for the exact same post: "Thanks for the birthday wishes, see you next year."
On the train the other day I overheard a young girl around 19 on her phone , "Yeah this guy hired me for a babysitting job, he was over 30 so I checked Facebook where old people's profiles are.", that summed it up for me! Facebook is now just for Gen-X lke me who made friends pre-2015 and still want to stay in touch every couple of months.
@@obsidianjane4413 He didn't create the Metaverse as much as hop on the metaverse bandwagon and then appropriate the term used for the concept by naming a company "Meta" in order to make it look like he invented it by simply naming his implementation of the idea after the idea itself, which also happens to make it look like its named after the company.
@@obsidianjane4413 The term "metaverse" as a combination of "meta" and "universe" was not invented by Zuckerberg. Putting a capital letter in the beginning of a word doesn't mean you invented the word.
2:09 "Is this website just robots talking to robots?" Pretty bold to criticize AI taking to AI from a RU-vid channel that is just Ryan talking to Ryan!
That's actually mostly propaganda. The legacy media is terrified of X. It's pretty nice, once you trained the algorithm. And there's no better place for news. Often other news sources cite it too.
The funniest part about this is how many boomers think those pictures are real. I always see my great aunt commenting on them like "praying for this boy, lord heal this child."
huh I guess mine isn't that bad. Mine mostly shows posts from 50+ year olds from my church posting religious quotes and sunsets. Some of them post multiple times a day 😅 Not really my vibe
@@roostre5254 Like many other comments said, I too only really go to facebook on my birthday. I have a friend who is exactly 1 year younger than me and we chat once a year basically 😅
Ryan, you are GOLD! If you ever do stand up in my area, I'm there with friends. And we will laugh even if you're having a tough time (all do once in a while). If you're ion TV, I'll watch and tell all my friends. Thank you for all the laughs!
I'm amazed anyone outside of media does call it X. No one is going to be confused if you say Twitter, so presumably the only reason people call it X despite everyone hating the new name is because they're so desperate to seem current, even if it's dumb and irrational.
Yeah, I always get the same feeling when I have to use the Facebook app instead of a browser - because in the browser (both Chrome and Firefox), I have the F.B.P. ("Fluff Busting Purity", no, that's for sure not "Facebook Purity", because that would be a copyright violation... 😉) add-on installed, which does a really great job throwing out all that junk from my timeline (including those annoying "You might be interested in [some garbage]" and "Recommended for you" segments). What it cannot fix, though, is that Facebook only shows me some of my friends (or, even worse, organizations/company) posts, and quite often just after the event (or offer, or Kickstarter etc.) is already over for a few days. But at least I don't have to suffer all that garbage Facebook's algorithms throw at you!
