So, I was bored and curious and accepted a "friend" request on Facebook from an utterly unknown woman, with an English sounding name. I do get a lot of them, and I don't mean the occasional third cousin of a friend of someone I was in the same high school with, I get those too and always wondered "what's wrong with these people?". I see them having 2500+ friends, that's a lot of shit content to seep through. I mean I accepted a few and it's literally IQ 70- and lower stuff, platitudes, religious crap, jokes with grammar errors, cancer kids and stray cats and puppies but other than that not much harm, plus I can always put them on ignore (don't "unfriend" once accepted, to avoid offending). But how about these "Jessica Brown" from Seattle? WTF is she up to? So, I accepted one to see how it goes. Unsurprisingly, it was a pig butchering scam attempt. I actually read on Hacker News of a guy who traced it all the way back to somewhere in Russia and it was following pretty much the same pattern. To those unfamiliar, pig butchering is getting familiar with someone, getting under their skin either romantically or emotionally then asking for money to help the scammer with some mishap or one-time-unfortunate situation which will be repaid anyway and afterall you're friends, no? Immediately after I accept the friend request she starts a chat on Facebook messenger "Hi dear!". At this point it's already clear, 'da fuq is with the "dear"? Noone without a nefarious intent doesn't address a total stranger with "dear". (There's sales guys who do that but again, sleazy nefarious intent present to begin with). So I look at her profile, she's American but lives in Britain and has a bit of a sad story, single with a child, very sad (duh!). OK, I start a conversation, say a few things, she replies with some inappropriately personal remarks then goes silent. Comes back again at 5 AM my time, 3 PM UK time with the laughable line "sorry she doesn't have internet at work". Of course, UK is basically Nigeria, large areas without 4G internet coverage and of course, single with a child goes to work leaving the kid alone, comes back at 3 AM and immediately starts writing to a stranger she met the other day. I ask about her story and she posts something. The broken English and time of becoming active, is consistent with a "love you long time" timezone. I still wonder why choose a background story where she's a native American moved to UK? If so why then not run the text through an AI first to correct the blatant grammar errors and unnatural expressions? No native would talk like that. And the last giveaway? I have a name and surname and in Romanian it's customary to have your profile as "Digweed John" rather than the other way around. But no American / European would mistake the name for the surname, it's one of the most common ones. Only a dumbass Asian can't figure out which is what (truth is, the reverse is also true, tell me from "Takatoru Takatsu" which one is the family name?). And I mean dumbass because if you don't know, you google, not continue to address me with "Digweed, dear". Anyway, I got bored and banned her profile. But anyways, it tells a lot of what cesspool Facebook has become. Besides pig butchering scam friend requests, half my ads are donating for cancer kids and the other half are AI fakes impersonating personalities who tell me to invest in some crypto account.
All social media is complete evil shit. If you want a healthy mind and life you should avoid it. Toxic, low quality, energy you're allowing into your life. Social media is nothing but a display of human ego, vanity, ugliness, greed, impurity, insecurity. Demons.