So after about six months of doing nothing whatsoever with it, I decided to check back in on Facebook to see if there was any reason I particularly need an account there. In Firefox on Mac, it reads something like this.
"name of group) group, facebook, facebook, facebook, facebook, facebook, facebook ...you get the idea. Then it tends to spell out images, have a bunch of stuff about reels, and so on. I haven't gotten to anybody who's actually written text in a post to see if it spells that out too.
What's the secret I'm missing? Because right now FB is unusable nonsense. I mean I have some friends on there where it's the main way I see what they're up to, but I'm not slogging through gibberish like that on the off chance something interesting is going on.
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Same bug here
same here, and no workaround. I have reported this to Apple.
My Facebook thoughts
Hey! So, Iām having the same issue. Honestly, Iāve always thought Facebook was kind of useless, and I genuinely donāt know why I havenāt hit the delete button yetāthough Iām this close to doing it in the next few days. But, like you, itās where I check in on my friendsā lives, so I thought, āEh, maybe itās worth keeping.ā Spoiler: itās not. Facebook just feels like a big pile of nonsense at this point.
Anyway, same struggle hereāI use Firefox on my Mac, and I have no clue how to fix it. Meta loves to mess up accessibility, like theyāre trying to set a new record or something. The iPhone app isnāt awful , but itās definitely not as easy to use as it used to be. And trying to use Facebook on Firefox? Total chaos. Honestly, your description nailed itāthereās no topping that.
Iāll give Safari and Chrome a shot, but letās be real: Iāll probably just delete my account and be done with it.
P.S. If you somehow figure out why Facebook is worth keeping, let me know. Maybe youāve got some magical insight I donāt! š
I think this is actually a Facebook issue.
On Windows, the mobile site worked, but regular Facebook in Firefox would do something totally different, but equally annoying. It would spell out things like dates and posts, before you got to actual readable text. So you'd get things like:
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and so on. As for keeping it, if you use Messenger, you can apparently set up a thing they call a DEMA, Deactivated Except for Messenger Account. As for FB more generally, I used to just go on it and rant about terrible books I accidentally read, the weird music I listen to and the weird musical topics I was interested in, and how I'd yell at scammers about the Great Old Ones or, one time, that I'd been bitten in half by a hippo. So I mean, I'm probably not the best person to ask.
Mobile site versus mobile application?
As the subject suggests, would either of the Mobile options work? I am not a Facebook user, or a social media user in general, so asking honestly here.
Sidenote, how does one, "accidentally", read a book? š¤Ø
Mark Zuckerberg is the issue. š
Yeah, I think thatās definitely a Facebook issue. Sometimes they really mess up the apps and websites. For whatever reason, the mobile version of Facebook seems betterāmaybe because itās lighter? Honestly, I have no idea what Iām talking about. But yeah, I really think itās just a Facebook problem.
As for keeping it, I wonāt. I donāt use Messenger, just Facebook, you know, like I said, to stay in touch with some friends. But I think I can get used to WhatsAppāitās not that bad. Honestly, I donāt even have a good reason to keep using Facebook. I tried logging in on Safari on my iPhone, and like you said, the mobile site isnāt terrible. I mean, itās not good, but itās less bad.
Itās just messy, you know? Itād be so much easier if they were consistent and gave us the same experience everywhere. The mobile app is better so why canāt the web version be just as good? Anyway, like you said, itās a mess. Good luck with itāI hope you find a way to make it work! š
Oh ...
Don't even get me started on 'Margaret' Zuckerberg. š
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Yep! If I started talking about Margaret I wouldnāt have much good to say, and Iād probably just end up being annoying. So yeah, letās not go thereāheās the problem, no doubt. By the way, that name is so creative! I might just borrow it next time I need to refer to Mark Zuckerberg. š
One does not accidentally read a book.
One accidentally reads a *bad* book. You start a book, and it looks promising. You don't find out it's truly terrible until at least halfway through, and by that point, you may be morbidly curious about how it turns out.
I can't share the review of the last one here, because there is *way* too much cursing. But let's just say the Catholic teen who said "God, if I'm doing something wrong, please make me hit a deer" didn't show up until quite a ways into the book. But good holy gods, once she showed up, we got prayers for deer on vehicle action a *lot*!
Suffice to say, the book and the whole plot turned out to be as dumb as the above sounds. But for a while, it had some promise. I wouldn't say it was all that great of a promise, but it could have been something way better than it actually ended up being, and I am sad that I read it. I want the author to compensate me.
Instagram dms have neverā¦
Instagram dms have never been accessible on both mac and windows and the pages are as unstructured as those of facebook. Try to change the grouping behaviour under navigation with all four options would be my best bet.