On the train to work the other morning, I was scrolling through FB and noticed a message from FB themselves.
We decided to help you by changing all your groups to highlight-only.
We've Updated Default Group NotificationsWe're working to connect you with the notifications you find relevant. You were receiving all notifications from these groups by default, but we've updated this to only show highlights. You can change this anytime.
Updated Groups
And then it listed all of my groups.
All of my groups. Every last one.
So I hunted for the way to switch them back. I had to scroll to the bottom and click
"See all groups"
And then it gave me the full list, and I could click one at a time and restore to all posts, then save. Managed to restore about five before my station came up.
(Someone told me that there is a way to do this en-masse if you're on FB in a regular web browser. But I couldn't find it in either of the Android FB apps. And the only web browser I own, FB brings it to its knees.)
Then I read a post by a friend who was complaining that he wasn't getting posts. All he was getting was ads.
Cometh the dawn.
The ads weren't getting through, and they thought they had to get our attention.
So ... somebody give me a cool ten million dollars so I can build the start of a real social networking system that won't be just an excuse to shove ads down everyone's throats to get money from advertisers.
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It wouldn't be so bad if I thought I could trust the ads as being legitimate, but I don't trust a thing they say. I'll have to dream about the utopia where we could do anything without having someone trying to sell us something that we don't need or want.
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