Reddit has a Facebook Ad Suggesting that you stalk your ex

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you_are_dust@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 291d (2 replies)

I think that is a big stretch to interpret that as stalking. Now I dislike Facebook and I don't use it, but reconnecting with friends and family is kinda their whole business model. Well, originally it was, now it's keep feeding people a constant stream of crap so they never close the app. Just like everything else.

Deceptichum@quokk.au · 9 pts · 291d (1 reply)
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you_are_dust@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 291d

It could also be something that never was. I have definitely heard it used just as much for someone that things just didn't materialize into a relationship. Regardless, "reconnect" is not the same as stalk. It's reaching.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 291d (5 replies)

I know someone who used Facebook to reconnect with an ex.

We're married now.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 291d (3 replies)

You stalker creep, I bet you know everything about them

Deceptichum@quokk.au · 20 pts · 291d (2 replies)
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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 291d

Makes me sick

Carighan@piefed.world · 6 pts · 291d

Disgusting!

msage@programming.dev · 4 pts · 291d

I used Instagram.

Since I lost all FB accounts.

Psythik@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 291d (4 replies)

The entire reason Facebook exists to begin with was so Zuck could creep on his female classmates. This is not surprising at all.

DoctorPress@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 291d (2 replies)
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rimu@piefed.social · 22 pts · 291d

True. It was originally called The Face Book and it only had pics of female classmates and people could rate them.

Swaus01@piefed.social · 10 pts · 291d
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LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d

If he'd named it with more honesty & transparency, he would've named it The Creeper Catalog.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 291d (2 replies)

isnt Facebook users, mostly about stalking others on there. before the pandemic, i was sitting in a school university computer lab, and this whiney girl was telling her friends about a guyshe knows was blocking her, she was really upset about that. i can see some of these people stalking on facebook. she also looked around as if people were listening to her. same kinda goes for twitter too, before musk.

pi3r8@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 291d (1 reply)

In fairness - you were listening to her.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 290d

true, but she was so loud everyone around her can hear it. like how people are annoying loud in thier phone conversation in public

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 290d (1 reply)

I thought "the one that got away" means "the crush you never got together with"?

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 289d

Looks like OP chose to interpret this ad in the creepiest way possible.

Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 291d

Reconnect on Facebook? With people? When I accidentally login to my Facebook account, the feed is almost only advertisements. Like 18 sponsored posts for every friend that I actually follow. It's more a platform to see ads where accidentally every now and then you can see stuff you care about

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 291d

Lmfao holy shit

potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br · 3 pts · 291d

Yeah, I need to kill the witness to that crime.

Thanks Facebook!

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 291d

Wow, that’s creepy as fuck.