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Wtf did facebook marketplace just suggest to me? (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 months ago by MrShankles@reddthat.com to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Idk if this is the right community, but I was absolutely FLOORED this morning by this notification; and needed people to see (so I don't feel so crazy)

I'm moving and trying to sell a futon... so I'm using facebook marketplace. But it refuses to let me turn off notifications about "suggestions", and I guess I just have to deal with it for now

What the actual fuck kinda notification just popped onto my phone though (from facebook's marketplace)? Idk what to even do after seeing it, so here I am trying to make sense of it in anyway I can

What the actual fuck y'all?.

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[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 131 points 4 months ago

I dunno, but you have facebook and that font installed on your phone, so Im suspicious of your claim.

[-] sheridan@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Is it one of those fonts that dyslexic people find easier to read?

[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 81 points 4 months ago

I think it's one of these fonts that creates new dyslexic people like those ticks that make people allergic to red meat.

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

It's like the Comic Sans version of The Ring.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago

It's the reading equivalent of the Porygon episode of Pokemon.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago

I’m pretty sure that font just made me dyslexic

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago

It's not one intentionally made for it.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Marketplace is the only reason I ever let Facebook temporarily live on my phone. Craig’s List isn’t what is used to be.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

You can just use the website. No need for their spyware app.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -1 points 4 months ago

There isn't a difference with how ingrained Meta is

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

Very big difference the fact the app can continue tracking rather or not you ever login via a browser. Atleast with a browser, it can be contained.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago

Let's talk about your typeface choices, son.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 6 points 4 months ago

It helps to keep me lighthearted; the lightly-whimsical font (on just my phone) is easier on my brain. I work with a lot of intense situations that require a lot of critical thinking... so it's nice not to see the same font on my phone that I normally see when trying to mitigate an impending crash. It's just nicer for allowing my brain to switch gears between priorities... if that make sense?

I work critical care in a large hospital, and I've had to develop a bunch of coping skills to maintain my humanity/sanity as well as not bringing my work home with me everyday. Small changes can make a big impact sometimes

And I've learned to love the font. A lot of people may need the rigidity of a standard font, but I assume it's a per-basis situation

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks for doing what you do. I've spent too much time in critical care facilities, and every time, everyone working there has been the absolute best.

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

You mean in how magnificent they are?

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 months ago

My brother in christ what the fuck font have you corrupted your mobile device with

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Bruh that font

[-] needanke@feddit.org 13 points 4 months ago

Gave me 'It's 2012 and I just jailbroke my Ipod Touch' - vibes.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I think I actually was doing that in 2012.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 months ago

Why is it always the samsung users with the god awful squigly font bruhhh

[-] potoo22@programming.dev 10 points 4 months ago

I've seen a Facebook ad selling a kid...

What they were actually selling?

They were selling a goat.

[-] needanke@feddit.org 6 points 4 months ago

What were they actually selling?

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

I never clicked it, so unfortunately we'll never know

[-] shoki@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

"300 black men for only 2£?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH9pQ1waOFo

[-] needanke@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

But it refuses to let me turn off notifications about "suggestions" Can you not just turn off all notifications for the app? Or uninstall the app ans use it in the browser as someone else suggested?

[-] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

TIL meta is just as awful as it always has been.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

!demeta@programming.dev

[-] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

It is Meta-Over 😼 (you get it? Metaverse, company rebrand?)

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

bro why are yall stressing with their font, its their phone ffs

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