My feed on Facebook is full of Elon and Transphobia
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Jeena
Back in 2006 I was coerced by my work colleagues to join Facebook, they threatened that if I don't do it they will create an account with my real name and post embarrassing stuff so I did it. In the early years it was actually better than I expected, I reconnected with friends from different Schools who also moved around in the world and I started appreciate being able to see what they were up to. This was my main reason why I stayed on Facebook (and still am on Instagram).
But nowadays when I log in to Facebook, which I do like once every couple of weeks, this looks very different. I categorized the first 27 posts on my Facebook feed:
| Want / Don't want | Description |
|---|---|
| ✓ | Memory picture from 10 years ago |
| ✓ | Link to a local newspaper article from a friend |
| ✗ | Random short videos |
| ✗ | Transphobia |
| ✗ | Elon Musk |
| ✗ | Right-Wing Extremism |
| ✗ | Elon Musk |
| ✗ | Elon Musk |
| ✓ | Friends memory post from 12 years ago |
| ✗ | Lex Friedman |
| ✗ | Random short videos |
| ✓ | Expat group post I follow |
| ✗ | Elon Musk |
| ✗ | Science post about Thorium |
| ✗ | Some random post about New York |
| ✗ | Elon Musk |
| ✗ | Sexism |
| ✗ | "The youth is so entitled!" post |
| ✗ | Fat shaming |
| ✗ | Programming joke |
| ✗ | People you may know |
| ✗ | Elon Musk + Transphobia |
| ✓ | Friends post from Palestine about some guy |
| ✓ | Friends picture post from their vacation |
| ✗ | IT humor |
| ✗ | Elon Musk |
| ✗ | Transphobia |
And here it is visually for you to see what I saw in my feed:
So you see I'm going to Facebook only to see what my friends are up to, but I only see 1 single post about this out of the 27 initial ones. But I see 7 Elon Musk posts, 4 Transphobia ones and I have to assume that Elon hates his trans doughtier so much that he gives Mark money so that he pushes all this content.
So now the legitimate question, why am I still on Facebook? I'm still hoping to see those friend posts. And actually Facebook even has a feature to do that, you need to go to Feeds -> Friends where they show a chronological list of your friends posts which took me years to find. The thing still is that only very few of