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‘I felt doomed’: social media guessed I was pregnant – and my feed soon grew horrifying (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/mentalhealth@lemmy.world

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[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This entire article is weird and made me uncomfortable. Almost like it was written by AI. Then there’s quotes like this,

I uninstalled the apps through tears. But they were soon reinstalled, when the needs of work, friendships and habit dictated they must be.

Like do some of yalls hear yourselves? You sound like fucking drug addicts. (Except at least with drugs there’s a high…) So fucking weird how obsessive social media use is normalized with shit like this. Like if your feed is regularly showing you dead baby videos, get the fuck off the internet.

People like this simply should not be on social media much if at all. Clearly she can’t handle it. I couldn’t either btw and deleted all socials back in 2018.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

In the article she likens it to being radicalized and I think she hit the nail on the head. These algorithms are chasing engagement and they get it. Whether that be from someone strapping on a vest, shooting up a soft target or making pregnant women scared. Same shit. Advertisers don't care. There is no worldwide conspiracy to destroy society. These methods are byproducts of the converging interests of attention buyers and attention sellers. As human resources, we return from being mined for our labor to come home and be mined for our attention.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Well they are addicts.

It's just that rampant running business malpractice is normalized and not kept in check.

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’m not reading this article, but I was laid off a few months ago. Our finances are getting stretched thin. We started talking about “What if we had to sell our house?” and I started getting ads for moving companies frequently across a few platforms.

It was really depressing, and it made me exceedingly more stressed, not less. I can understand from the algorithm’s cold, calculating, machine perspective, it’s “just” serving relevant content. But maybe not every need should be monetized. (I know, capitalistic hellscape, but whatever)

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tiktok is fucking gross. I will never understand why people use it.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

They say that they like what it offers them.

This image is an illustration depicting the story Time Machine by HG Wells, very much worth a read.

Among other things, it depicts the demise of democracy, or rather, whether it technically remained or not it became irrelevant.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Work and friendships dictate your need for social media usage? What's up with that?

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, does clearing your cookies on a site like facebook, Instagram or any other social media platform not remove all the targeted advertising you see? When I do it for YouTube it completely resets my recommended videos data. I use ubllock still and use YouTube very seldomly so I guess I just assumed it removes the targeted ads data too.

[–] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Companies use browser fingerprinting and tracking pixels more often these days than cookies. So even if YouTube resets your recommendations, they still know who you are and what devices you use. Worse still, thanks to google ads and facebook embedded content everywhere, they know wherever you go too.