This is one of many reasons why I stopped using Facebook almost 2 years ago. The main impotence was seeing the documentary "The Social Dilemma." (https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/) If you can stay on Facebook after watching what evil that company performs, more power to you. I suspended my account the next day and haven't been back.
My friend I referenced earlier is also fond of saying we get the "x" we deserve - politicians, media, etc. We vote, we click we make choices and it drives and skews what we are offered. Not all choices are as informed as we'd like because the world is too complex to know even a fraction of what we'd like to, and info is frequently hidden or distorted for various reasons, mostly short term financial in some way. Much of this seems to me just scaled up versions of what's happened for most of human history.
Facebook is a tool - like the 18 guns I own. You can use it for positive things or not so positive. Kind of like " the other forum " which can be used to argue and belittle someone, or to exchange ideas.
Yep. I have used FB for a long time now, and have connected with old friends, coordinated groups etc. It's hard to escape some of the less savory things big data companies do these days so I get the reactions. I limit my interactions too and don't really engage in discussions due to the things mentioned where too many people have a mindset of "if you do/say/believe A then you MUST therefore also believe X/Y/Z things that are horrible and probably make you a satanist/nazi". Then there's stuff which is clearly fake (jokes/trolls) that people lose their shit over. I kid you not, my cousin's spouse just posted some video of a "liberal" suing her parents for not asking her permission to be born, and the gullible outrage was... interesting.
Pretty good article on the decline of the MCU, and how this topic plays a big role in it in various ways:https://www.audioholics.com/editorials/marvel-studios-mcu-how-bad-writing-defeated-superhero-moviesThe point that many of the female characters basically just replaced a male character with little beyond surface level changes, and usually lacking much of a developed origin and story, really hits home. It applies in so much of the genre TV & movies - Rey in Star Wars etc.
While not having to do with Marvel, my wife and I have noticed a tendency lately that in virtually every movie and TV show, when a strong female character is shown, she ends up being a lesbian or bi-sexual. Some recent examples are Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the excellent Star Wars show, Andor. In Andor in particular, the only "real" romantic relationship they show is between two women and Mon Monthma's heterosexual relationship with her husband is anything but ideal. Regardless, why can't we have strong female characters that are feminine and heterosexual?
David, I've noticed for several years that in a lot of "genre" TV shows, the primary or only relationship that had a really positive dynamic was a non-heterosexual relationship. Going back to Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the late 1990s, in fact, with Willow and Amber being the only "nice" relationship long term. Not all, of course, but in a lot of genre TV it's been a noticeable trend. One counter example (to an extent) was She-Hulk - Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk is decidedly hetero. Seems like that show got a lot of criticism and mediocre ratings but my wife & I both enjoyed it a lot.
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