Anti-bot software

If users could download anti-bot software would Facebook continue to exist?

I’m sure Suckerburg would find a way to block the software. Bots are good for business.

Facebook is a Bot. You can turn it off.

-J.

Twitter/X is the same or worse.

Dan wrote:

Twitter/X is the same or worse.

Not even remotely close in my experience. I get so many posts on FB for things I am not remotely following, not relevant to me or where I live and not counting all the ads, etc. I spend far more time on Twitter than on do on FB and its night and day different. Yeah, I will get ads here and there, but nothing like FB.

Both Twitter/X and Facebook are built to hook users and predictably engage them through both real-life crap, and AI/bot manufactured crap.

I ditched Twitter probably 10 years ago when it went away from what it first was. My facebook hasn’t been updated in years. I turned off all notifications for it and just hop on it when I need to sell something on Marketplace.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Not even remotely close in my experience. I get so many posts on FB for things I am not remotely following, not relevant to me or where I live and not counting all the ads, etc. I spend far more time on Twitter than on do on FB and its night and day different. Yeah, I will get ads here and there, but nothing like FB.

Yeah you’re right in that regard, I was more commenting on the bot situation. Agreed that FB is full of ads. I went through a phase last year where every day I was seeing ads for Upper Michigan snowmobile trials. Twitter/X does seem to be the platform with bots. I’ll see a tweet about the Vikings and the 2nd comment on the tweet will be some scantily clad woman wanting you to click a lick to speak to her privately haha.

All the more reason to not have nor use either.

You mean those scantily clad women are not really interested in me? LOL I never click those, but yes, they are definitely there and you are dead on its nearly every time the second comment.

buckybadger wrote:

Both Twitter/X and Facebook are built to hook users and predictably engage them through both real-life crap, and AI/bot manufactured crap.

I ditched Twitter probably 10 years ago when it went away from what it first was. My facebook hasn’t been updated in years. I turned off all notifications for it and just hop on it when I need to sell something on Marketplace.

Yup. Haven’t posted anything on fb in years. Also have never even had a twitter/instagram/snapchat account. I’m too young to act this old but I don’t care

Yup. Haven’t posted anything on fb in years. Also have never even had a twitter/instagram/snapchat account. I’m too young to act this old but I don’t care
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I’m in the same boat. And it’s a good boat to be in.

Ive never had FB or any other of them things. I only have snapchat and thats so I can see videos of my girls at dance and gymnastics.