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Just realized the algorithm picked a fight I didn't ask for
I was scrolling through Facebook last Tuesday night after closing up the shop, watching some car repair video. I clicked on the comments section, saw some guy saying something wrong about transmission fluid, so I corrected him calm like. Within 20 minutes my notifications were blowing up with people arguing with me, calling me names, all that. I looked at what the algorithm was doing and realized it boosted my reply to the top because it had high engagement potential - not because it was right or helpful. That's when it clicked for me. The algorithm doesn't care about truth or quality, it just wants a fight because fighting keeps people on the site longer. I changed my settings to turn off reply notifications but honestly it made me rethink posting anything technical on Facebook at all. Anyone else notice their simple comments turning into flame wars because of how these platforms push controversial replies?
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wilson.olivia3d ago
Yeah that's exactly how they work.
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troyknight2d ago
My phone autocorrected "can't" to "can" the other day and I accidentally told my boss I'd be happy to work through the weekend. Now every text conversation feels like I'm dodging landmines with a broken map. Maybe I should just switch to carrier pigeons at this point, at least they don't have predictive text. Anybody else accidentally commit to something weird lately?
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