Keywords: paradox
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Recently I've been zucced twice so fast that I am quite sure it was based on an algorithm.
The first time, I posted "Nah. Men are evil" and got zucced in under 20 minutes:
Interestingly, when I posted some followups like "Men are evil /s" or with some other indicators of sarcasm, those comments didn't get zucced.
On Sunday, I made the mistake of sharing an article from the Huffington Post, Women Are Evil.
In under an hour (within minutes of the post going out - exactly how many I don't know, but it was very quick) I was zucced:
Given the speed at which both zuccings happened and their absurdity (the first time I was being sarcastic [which hopefully would've been clear given my other comments in the thread] and the second time I was sharing the article title which presumably was the objectionable element), I am pretty sure both zuccings were the products of algorithms. And if not, this might reflect even worse on Facebook - if even humans can't detect sarcasm or article titles, good luck getting AI to do it.
On a related note: from 26 July Facebook won't allow third party applications to post to personal profiles, so I won't be able to use Buffer anymore.
The inability to queue posts and retarded zuccing combine to make a great incentive to scale back on my Facebook activity.
So I guess there's an upside after all!
