Re:Facebook is cooked
by pwrsysengineer on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:54PM
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I created a Facebook account a few years ago to get in on the local marketplace deals. After opening the website a few times and seeing very suggestive content, I had the idea of tailoring my feed to the most racy things I could find. Eventually, my feed was filled images of children wearing bathing suits and in suggestive positions, censored images of sexual acts, and AI generated images of elderly women with large breasts and little clothing. I was taking screenshots for a while but one time I opened my photo gallery while on the train and realized how embarrassing it looked to have a phone filled with this crap.
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Re:Facebook is cooked
by someotherperson on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:47PM
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Yeah you should probably delete those photos. Nobody is going to believe your story (myself included).
Re:Facebook is cooked
by replwoacause on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:24PM
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The part of the story I believe is the part about basically half naked children on Facebook, whether real or AI. I haven't put anything on my profile for the algorithm to tailor content to, since it's used for only marketplace and I've seen some very disturbing content that looked like it slithered off of X. It was as suggestive and inappropriate as you could be about kids, without being full-on porn. And Facebook/Meta seem to have no problem with it. It's a trash heap of a site and everyone involved with it working at Meta should be ashamed.
> my feed was filled images of children wearing bathing suits and in suggestive positions
> I was taking screenshots for a while
More than a little surprised this seemed like a good idea at the time, let alone that you did so for a while without thinking "There is no scenario this ends well"
Re:Facebook is cooked
by pwrsysengineer on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:29PM
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It does sound bad, and yes I deleted them. I wanted to convince my friends at Meta of what I was seeing. They didn't believe me until I showed them.
Re:Facebook is cooked
by GorbachevyChase on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:04PM
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Totally random question: if you traveled outside of your county, would you be legally obligated to notify the sheriff department? Just a random thought. Not related to your scientific research.
Notify of what?