Facebook thinks I am black too. I smile faced that to see if I would get more ads.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
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.
askye - Mar 22, 2018 4:59:39 pm PDT #23597 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
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
Do you ever wonder how French vanilla differs from vanilla?
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.
Beverly - Mar 22, 2018 6:42:44 pm PDT #23606 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I stopped posting to facebook some time ago. I follow relatives and folks I don't see elsewhere, and comment on pictures and posts, or like links, etc. But I don't post original content and don't have much of a presence on FB, or pretty much anywhere.
I adopted the same policy with LJ, and am doing any original content posting xposted from Dreamwidth, though I comment on my flistie's LJ posts. I have a twitter account, but it's mostly for confirming fandom-related rumors, again, I make no original content posts, nor retweet content on my own account.
And I'm on a laptop. My phone, while minimally intelligent, is deliberately not internet-enabled. I realize this wouldn't work for everybody, and I have no illusions that my privacy is any more secure than if I were posting nudes all over twitter and facebook and getting in slapfights with people whose opinions I disagree with. But I'm okay with that.