I, too, am black. Because there couldn't possibly be any other reason to be interested in the things I'm interested in.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
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.
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.
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.
aurelia - Mar 22, 2018 6:49:04 pm PDT #23607 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
You just reminded me... I was attempting to clean out email and came across a notification from LJ that said my account had been deleted. I thought, "Huh? I deleted that ages ago." Now that I've read the email, it looks like they're purging old deleted accounts now but if I had responded within 3 days of the email I could've un-deleted the account. Delete seems to be a fuzzy term.
shrift - Mar 22, 2018 7:56:35 pm PDT #23608 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Facebook does NOT think I'm black, and now I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.
Zenkitty - Mar 22, 2018 7:58:04 pm PDT #23609 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I should check on my abandoned LJ accounts to see if they're still alive.
I feel like I should delete FB but I won't. If I did, I'd lose touch with a few people I don't want to lose. I know they don't want to lose touch with me either, and I know that none of us are really interested in trying to find another way to stay in touch. Because life is complicated, and what we're already doing is easy. I guess basically I feel like -t said. This mess isn't my fault and I don't think that I should have to lose something that's valuable to me to fix it. FB needs to fix it. I will of course be locking down my privacy settings and not taking any more quizzes though. I wonder if they think I'm black? Probably
flea - Mar 23, 2018 1:17:34 am PDT #23610 of 30002
information libertarian
It's sort of extra funny that Facebook thinks I'm black, because maybe 40% of my posts are about Korean pop music. But Facebook doesn't think I'm Asian. (Youtube sort of does - I get MacDonald's ads in Korean now.)
Calli - Mar 23, 2018 2:14:19 am PDT #23611 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm FB black, too. (I'm also "very liberal" but that's less surprising.)
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.
it's probably because we all give a fuck about BLM and racism.
Yep. I'm gonna consider this a badge of giving-a-f**k honor.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2018 2:40:16 am PDT #23612 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's sort of extra funny that Facebook thinks I'm black, because maybe 40% of my posts are about Korean pop music. But Facebook doesn't think I'm Asian. (Youtube sort of does - I get MacDonald's ads in Korean now.)
I was in a meeting yesterday where someone said her 12-year-old daughter is teaching herself Korean, and I didn't have a chance to ask if it's because of K-pop, but it's totally because of K-pop.