It turns out Facebook thinks I'm black.
I interact with nothing public, but Facebook did have me in two ad categories: black and Republican. Which is hilarious on so many levels.
Also, timelies, everyone!
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Mar 22, 2018 4:50:12 pm PDT #23596 of 30002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
askye - Mar 22, 2018 4:59:39 pm PDT #23597 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
Facebook thinks I am black too. I smile faced that to see if I would get more ads.
sarameg - Mar 22, 2018 5:16:45 pm PDT #23598 of 30002
aurelia - Mar 22, 2018 5:38:05 pm PDT #23599 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
It turns out Facebook thinks I'm black.
Me too. And it seems I have moderate engagement with soccer related content and am a frequent traveler? Random. They got my birthday, my political leanings, and how I connect to FB correct. I'm not seeing anything I'm particularly concerned about there, but I did purge a number of apps and I'll probably skip quizzes from here on out.
sarameg - Mar 22, 2018 5:45:00 pm PDT #23600 of 30002
I'm not being good about articulating my thoughts, but short version: fb algorithms deciding you are black because you give a fuck is an indictment of the whiteness of fb inside. Systemic racism at work in weird but unsurprising ways.
Steph L. - Mar 22, 2018 5:45:43 pm PDT #23601 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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Tiny berets?
My fajitas came in a big cauldron carved out of volcanic rock!
You win at fajitas. That sounds AWESOME.
Dana - Mar 22, 2018 5:48:19 pm PDT #23602 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ha, FB thinks I'm black too. And I was gonna say, it's probably because we all give a fuck about BLM and racism.
JZ - Mar 22, 2018 6:05:15 pm PDT #23603 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I, too, am black. Because there couldn't possibly be any other reason to be interested in the things I'm interested in.
Pix - Mar 22, 2018 6:07:42 pm PDT #23604 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
I'm not being good about articulating my thoughts, but short version: fb algorithms deciding you are black because you give a fuck is an indictment of the whiteness of fb inside. Systemic racism at work in weird but unsurprising ways.
Yes, this. I, too, am apparently black according to FB.
aurelia - Mar 22, 2018 6:37:03 pm PDT #23605 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
it's probably because we all give a fuck about BLM and racism.
Yep. I blocked the worst of the right-wing pages posting anti-BLM memes a couple of years ago. I have noticed the occasional ad for Essence magazine since then.