I’ve shared a selection of Facebook
follies before—how they’re always trying to prompt me into having the sort
of life they think I should be having.
Well, they’re back.
In the space of less than 24
hours, I got two of their intrusive “suggestions”.
First there was this chirpy greeting:
Seriously—if that’s not
creepy, I don’t know what is.
And then there was this, must
have been Sunday morning, although I didn’t see it until night.
Guys—if your algorithm hasn’t
picked up on the fact that I have never commented one way or another on any
sporting event, then you need to hire a whole new batch of SDEs.
(Oh, and P.S.: why on earth would I want to share that with anyone?)
They put this crap right at
the top of your timeline, like it’s so important. And however many times I
click on the “see fewer bits of nonsense like this”, they still come back to
see if I’ve changed my mind. Like a four-year-old.
I do not need Facebook to
sidle up with a weather forecast to let me know that they know where I am. And
I don’t need their assumptions that I’m watching anything on TV at any time.
What I would like would be for
them to quit resetting my timeline preference, and to explain to me why things
that show up in the Facebook mobile app do not appear in my browser feed (and
vice versa).
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