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.

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.

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.

Facebook does NOT think I'm black, and now I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.

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

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'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.

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.

Facebook does NOT think I'm black, and now I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.

Right there with you. It does apparently think I'm a Republican Millennial, however.

Data collection laws must be very different, because the only things in my profile, beside "Birthday in September" are details on the platforms and devices that I access FB with.