A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms

Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by lsaferite on Monday December 18, 2017 @10:07PM (#15957417)

I haven't logged into my FB account in a few years at this point. The emails I get are annoying AF. "Did you see {your aunt}'s comment on {your cousin}'s status?", so I click only to be taken to a login page. And I fall for it too often. The kicker is the email summary has more info than the body when you click on it. It has a little tease of what the original status was or something.

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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by username223 on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:15PM (#15957692)

The lesson to learn here is: "if something in your computer environment annoys you, spend a few minutes to permanently fix it." I configured my email client to trash pretty much all email from "@facebook.com" years ago, and this is no longer a problem for me.

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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by lsaferite on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @07:38AM (#15959731)

I agree. I've been slowly unsubscribing from all the annoying email lists I'm on for just this reason.

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Re:A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algori... by gaius on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:14AM (#15959347)

Twitter and LinkedIn do this too. And the kicker is: they know it's not actually important, or they would include it in the body of the email!

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