Annoying things people write on Facebook

[BFTD]

There's a old-school Mail headline for you.

"TUTU: LET THEM DROWN"

[carpetmonster]

22 hours ago, Raidernation said:

Probably originally from the yooessayy

Would methadone be free in the States tho? I’d imagine you’d at least have a co-pay for the script. 

[Boghead ranter]

10 hours ago, Swarley said:

Aren't these adverts based on your browser history? 

There was a show on the telly box last week, where a marketing person was saying that the algorithms also work by reading data on regularly 'nearby' devices.

Can't remember exactly what she was saying about how it works, but if your phone is regularly near, say, a family member's, it uses Bluetooth to read what sites it is connected to, and writes that knowledge into the algorithms it uses on your device. Also, it reads emails in your address book, and if those emails match the login details of other users on Facebook, it uses things that those accounts look at, when deciding what to pitch at you - as in "if those people are friends, then they're possibly interested in the same things".

[Raidernation]

Would methadone be free in the States tho? I’d imagine you’d at least have a co-pay for the script. 

Well, I know people that can buy weed a lot, lot cheaper than from the official “dispensaries” and much much cheaper than via prescription!

[Swarley]

10 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:

There was a show on the telly box last week, where a marketing person was saying that the algorithms also work by reading data on regularly 'nearby' devices.

Can't remember exactly what she was saying about how it works, but if your phone is regularly near, say, a family member's, it uses Bluetooth to read what sites it is connected to, and writes that knowledge into the algorithms it uses on your device. Also, it reads emails in your address book, and if those emails match the login details of other users on Facebook, it uses things that those accounts look at, when deciding what to pitch at you - as in "if those people are friends, then they're possibly interested in the same things".

^^^ "Sat next to ICTChris on a bus, it was his dodgy internet browsing history not mine" style post imho

[effeffsee_the2nd]

On 12/10/2021 at 15:41, Boghead ranter said:

There was a show on the telly box last week, where a marketing person was saying that the algorithms also work by reading data on regularly 'nearby' devices.

Can't remember exactly what she was saying about how it works, but if your phone is regularly near, say, a family member's, it uses Bluetooth to read what sites it is connected to, and writes that knowledge into the algorithms it uses on your device. Also, it reads emails in your address book, and if those emails match the login details of other users on Facebook, it uses things that those accounts look at, when deciding what to pitch at you - as in "if those people are friends, then they're possibly interested in the same things".

majority of my mates love the bevvy wheras i havent touched it for years. i never get adverts for booze

[BFTD]

On 13/10/2021 at 02:26, Swarley said:

^^^ "Sat next to ICTChris on a bus, it was his dodgy internet browsing history not mine" style post imho

You'd better believe I've got that excuse memorised too.

[Meldrew]

facebook maw Vs Insulate Britain

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/qarjxe/driver_begins_to_run_over_insulate_britain/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

 

[Oystercatcher]

On 12/10/2021 at 15:41, Boghead ranter said:

There was a show on the telly box last week, where a marketing person was saying that the algorithms also work by reading data on regularly 'nearby' devices.

Can't remember exactly what she was saying about how it works, but if your phone is regularly near, say, a family member's, it uses Bluetooth to read what sites it is connected to, and writes that knowledge into the algorithms it uses on your device. Also, it reads emails in your address book, and if those emails match the login details of other users on Facebook, it uses things that those accounts look at, when deciding what to pitch at you - as in "if those people are friends, then they're possibly interested in the same things".

I was on holiday up north this week, last night I had a hotel in Aviemore, all the adverts targeted at me were hill walking jackets and wet suits.

Your phone is "talking" to nearby phones.

It's actually quite sinister when ye think about it

 

[Oystercatcher]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPhRFBjBX17/?utm_medium=copy_link

[Oystercatcher]

^ Here's a guy explaining it better than I can...

[DiegoDiego]

I was on holiday up north this week, last night I had a hotel in Aviemore, all the adverts targeted at me were hill walking jackets and wet suits.
Your phone is "talking" to nearby phones.
It's actually quite sinister when ye think about it
 

Or, the phone knows your location and the manufacturers of those products pay to advertise to people in Aviemore.

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

URGENT but not urgent enough to make that epic 15 minute trek

[BFTD]

Everyone between her and 43 Castle Heather Drive have presumably already refused to take in parcels for that entitled wee besom.

[DiegoDiego]

If the parcel is for her children's Christmas then why is she in such a hurry to get it?

[Empty It]

What delivery driver leaves a parcel with someone 10-15 minutes away, I'm calling pish at the lazy cow doesn't want to walk a few doors down.

[welshbairn]

She was likely exaggerating but there are quite a few possibilities of the driver accidentally delivering it to the wrong address. Inverness is mental.

Edited October 30, 2021 by welshbairn

[Boghead ranter]

Double points for being anti-French and anti-immigrants in the same sentence.

Shared by an ex-squaddie (medically retired), unsurprisingly.

[Todd_is_God]

I'm assuming (despite what the replies might suggest) that this is utter pish

[velo army]

The internet is absolute manna for anxious people, or people who aspire to be nervous wrecks.

The idea that a five year old would harm themselves because someone who they called "evil Santa" (and not just Santa) doesn't really stand up to scrutiny either.

I mind when I was wee and this kind of thing would be spread through the playground by a few bairns who had the knack of storytelling and it would put the frighteners up a few others (me) but then those bairns would go home to their parents who would put them straight. Nowadays this pish gets written in red letters on Facebook and otherwise sensible adults would take it as gospel. Terrifying times.