Why I am pissed off with Facebook today
Ever since having a Steemit account, I have to admit that I rarely had time or interest in Facebook.
Facebook was the only way for an expat like me to keep up to date with my family living far away. I could share pictures there and create albums which can't get lost unless I forget my password. I think that in the back of my mind I'm too sentimental over all of my memories on there from over the years and years, to just delete it. I just can't.
This morning, however, he wanted to show me something on his game (I don't know anything about what he shows me) but I sat down on the sofa next to him to give it my full attention and try to look interested. I'm like a mixture between a magnet and a jungle gym because whenever my bum hits the couch, the kids are all over me. They'll even sit on my head if I give them a chance to do so.
Anyways, I hear a Facebook notification coming from my phone on the table across the room and I lately ignore these pings, but my daughter runs to me with my phone, unlocks it, opens the app and hands it to me. I see that it's a friend of mine who tagged me in a funny video and the kids were also trying to catch a glimpse of what I'm laughing at. It was nothing to sensor, by the way. At the end of the video, I press back a few times to get out of Facebook and I've noticed a while ago that even if you press back, it automatically refreshes to the top of the home page (probably some tactic to try and get you to start scrolling down again), but as it refreshes, at the very top of my feed, up pops a porn video!
It’s not a shared video or a tagged video or even posted by anyone, just a randomly selected spam video, in full view. Lately you don’t even have to press play, all the videos just starts playing by itself whether you pressed on it or not, with sound and all.
Immediately I hide the screen from the kids around me and start pressing any button I can find to get it off. Luckily they didn’t see anything – but they could have!
What shit is this???
Why are there such things on a social media mobile app that is not protected from prom people who don’t want to see it? Children use it too!
This is why I like Steemit more and although there are also content not appropriate for all viewers on here, at least it’s protected by settings that prevent this from happening and provides the reader with a choice.
I’m very disappointed with Facebook!
Totally pissed off and blowing off some STEEM!
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This never happened to me (the random spam I mean). and the videos, if they play, are usually without sound. I use Facebook quite a lot mostly fan pages and groups. I belong to many teacher groups and share my knowledge. I also run my own two groups one for my students where I post stuff connected with English and one for teachers where I post my ideas and advertise my workshops. I think you can use Facebook in many different ways and what you need to do is just look into the settings and make it child proof as much as possible :)
This never happened to me either. I've heard of things like this happening to others, but I've probably been lucky for a long time. As for the settings, they're all good. If I didn't have them in place, I would have been pissed off with myself, but they are set to prevent such things from happening...this is what gets under my skin!
As a friend of mine once said "Facebook is for people to post pictures of their ugly baby's or boast about their awesome lives." I'd love to delete my account but sadly there's literally five people on there who I would permanently lose contact with if I closed it.
Porn is everywhere on the web. I've seen some pretty heavy stuff on Steemit and the latest trick on Youtube is to bury hardcore porn in an image. TBH you would be better off creating an account for your children with an age restriction and a password known only to you. Letting them use your account means they're exposed to the adult world.
Just saying. :-)
Yes, I agree. They are still very little so I don't let them watch You Tube without me, and as for Facebook, they won't have accounts on there until they're 20, lol...in a perfect world of course.
Thanks for your comment and for reading ;)
My daughters are 26 (Twins) I still have access to their Gmail accounts. LOL
It's, OK, they actually like me having access. I get notified if any attempts at changes are made. They're too lazy to manage their own accounts. Bwahahaha
Whoaaaah! Applause to you big daddy! That's the way to go!!! LOL.
Well on another subject, seeing as you're much older than me with all grown daughters, if you know of any senior Steemers, you might want to direct them to @giantbear 's post aimed at supporting seniors on Steemit. I can send you the link if you're interested...not saying that you might be one of them, at all, haha, just to be clear.
;)
You cheeky monkey! I shall now take back that 100% upvote and resteem I gave you. Seniors indeed. :-P
It was my best manners, lol. Please don't take it back, I'll be a senior one day too :-P
Here is the link: https://steemit.com/steemit/@giantbear/steemit-is-the-only-income-for-some-senior-steemians-let-us-support-them
VERY important to monitor your children on the internet.
I know my brothers kids.. OMG the crap they see..
My mother made me turn off those sex ads with women in lingerie.. now kids can type sex into google and come up with all kinds of crazy stuff, most of it not normal sex lol..
I typed a word, which I had misspelt by the way, into Google search the other day and the images that came back were horrible. From the briefest of glances I gave it looked like animals being skinned alive!
I constantly laugh at our (UK) government trying to control the web, my retort is always "Look at them trying to control soup with their bare hands." I suspect that we will never eradicate it and so, therefore, education is the key. In its simplest form "So kids, any sexual activity you can think of there's a website out there catering for it. We'd prefer you not to look at it and if you see it by accident just close the search and move on." sadly, you're just playing Whack-A-Mole with this stuff. As soon as you put one barrier up it appears in another direction.
As a side note, I saw three separate posts on Steemit yesterday all with full frontal female nudity. Two of which did not have the NSFW tag and the third had a totally disarming heading image and title.
I know i had a similar experience typing something into google and terrible stuff coming up.. once you see it you can't unsee it :P
I think technology could find a way to block this stuff, for example if all webmasters put a peice of code on their website saying its adult.. then a system could easily block that.
Although always to work around it..
It's a little-known fact but the porn industry spends millions on software development. Let's not forget, it was the porn industry that effectively created the ownership of home video recorders and forced the adoption of VHS format over the far superior Betamax.
While I wholeheartedly agree with your suggestion I think even with that we'd still be back in the Whack-A-Mole situation.
I feel the same about Facebook nowadays. I very rarely check it, mostly on when there is birthday notifications.
Facebook actually has settings to stop the videos from playing automatically should you wan to change it.
If you go to
Settings
App Settings
Videos in News Feed Start with Sound On/Off Slider
Auto-play has 3 Options
. On Mobile and Wi-Fi
. On Wi-Fi only
. Never Auto-play
Hope this helps you a bit.
I have switch of both sound and auto-play options, because most of the time stuff people share on Facebook it junk anyways.
Lekker man, lekkerrr @diebaasman! Thank you so much! I'm going to give a try immediately. This is a BIG help! It's so irritating when I quickly want to check something and I have to hear how other people chew on their videos. Blurgh!
Sorry another thing that also bugs me as of late with Facebook on mobile lately is they are advertising apps inside Facebook, where you either click on them or by accident click on them and they open a web page which you would think is for the specific app.
After a few seconds the website redirects to another page either inappropriate content website or websites being detected as virus infected websites.
Also don't install any applications being suggested inside the facebook application on your mobile, my brother loaded a game from one of the suggested apps section and he ended up with malware that was using up large amounts of data. It took me a few hours to find the guilty malware and remove it manually.
Yes, I saw those too. Thank you for the advice, it worked.
Have a wonderful day fellow South African
No problem, glad to have helped. Enjoy your day too.
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I told my sister overseas that I'm hardly ever on facebook and that if she wants to stay in touch she should sign sign on steemit too.
Haha, good one...and did she join yet? I'm not getting my family to join here. For some reason nobody wants to join, lol.
Talk to her last night, the response was ok I'll check it out. My guestimate is that there' a 10% chance of her joining. I was able to get my brother in law to join @paolo75, to bad he only speaks italian (lol).
Well let's hold thumbs that she'll be able to join you here, then you have at least one more community member to support.
i also agree with you!!
Thanks @nachon
Im following you right now
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Facebook i visit so rarely now, but i don't think i would ever delete it - as you say, lots of friends and photos there (and birthday reminders!)
What is not cool is the popping up of porn or any other inappropriate content - that would make me want to uninstall the application. I would definitely consider switching off notifications for Facebook, giving you more control of when you and the kids can use the devices.
Thanks for blowing off some Steem!
Asher
I should actually do that, I don't know why I haven't turned the notifications off already. Probably because I don't visit there as often as I did.
Thank you for reading :)
Life is more peaceful without notifications for sure :)
Have a nice day!
Oh for sure!
Thanks, same to you @abh12345
;)
Agree with you there are really funny things happening on facebook. But still the place to chat with family and keep your pictures, i have been trying to take facebook off my tablet with no succes.
Agge nee! Perhaps @giantbear can help you with that when she's back.
Fakebook... Are they still around???
Haha, yes, but only to get under my skin!
I have a few friends that still use it... mostly people from college and my Italian buddies in Chicago- I check in once a week or so!
It's those people who we don't see or hear from often - they are the reason we're still there. If it wasn't for that, I would have deleted it ages ago.
Me too- My best friend from college, lives in Georgia now. I don't get to see him and his family anymore. I remember when they got married, now their kids are all grown! How time flies!
With the speed of light! I was just a child myself, not long ago, and now I have 3 children that are already going to school. Days were much longer when I was little, but now, the sun rises and sets way too fast.
I'm telling ya! I'm a great grandpa... expecting my second great grandchild in Nov.
Congratulations @richq11! What an honor it must be to be able to have great grandchildren! They sure are privileged to have such a talented great grandfather. I bet they can't get enough of your stories!