Reddit
reddit.com › r/facebook › anyone notice how fb is inundated by trolls? its almost unusable! and the stoobid laugh emoji is abusive.
r/facebook on Reddit: Anyone notice how fb is inundated by trolls? Its almost unusable! And the stoobid laugh emoji is abusive.
March 21, 2024 -
Anyone notice how fb is inundated by trolls? In particular, any post hinting at a culture war topic (trans, evs, etc) is inundated by conservative trolls. And the use of the derisive laugh emoji is used instead of any meaningful discussion. Reddit is so much better.
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I get post after post shown to me how much everyone hates trans people, and we’re all so evil, and do the worst things imaginable and insane. It’s unacceptable.
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Trump called Facebook the enemy of the people, the bots got the message.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/facebook › so facebook now openly supports and encourages creating troll accounts
r/facebook on Reddit: So Facebook now openly supports and encourages creating troll accounts
September 23, 2023 - Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. ... I guess more trolls means more interaction, more commercials being viewed, and more money.
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Quora
quora.com › Why-are-there-so-many-trolls-haters-and-just-plain-rude-mean-people-on-social-media-like-Facebook-and-Twitter
Why are there so many trolls, haters, and just plain rude/mean people on social media like Facebook and Twitter? - Quora
Answer (1 of 9): $$$money$$$ I’m sure you’ve heard the saying that if you use a platform for free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product, right? It’s a funny joke, right? Except that it isn’t a joke. Legally, practically, and morally, it’s literal truth.
Facebook
facebook.com › DaveBondy25 › posts › why-are-there-so-many-facebook-trolls › 2557486020945017
Why are there so many Facebook trolls?
Dave Bondy. 358,107 likes · 51,861 talking about this. Uncovering Unheard Truths, Inspiring Positive Change, Independent Journalist/Digital Video Content Manager at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Spake Media
spakemedia.com › 2020 › 08 › 27 › how-to-deal-online-trolls
Don’t Pay the Troll Toll 😂: How to Deal with Trolls on Facebook - Spake Media
September 1, 2020 - Perhaps they were trying to hijack your ad or post for free reach? Know that trolls are a very loud minority. Their aim is to have emotional impact: fear, pain, defeat and distress. And sometimes they succeed in this.
Ars Technica
arstechnica.com › tech-policy › 2021 › 09 › facebook-forced-troll-farm-content-on-over-40-of-all-americans-each-month
Facebook forced troll farm content on over 40% of all Americans each month - Ars Technica
September 18, 2021 - Report blames Facebook’s prioritization of engagement over all else.
Urban Dictionary
urbandictionary.com › define.php
Urban Dictionary: Facebook Troll
April 11, 2011 - 2. One who posts redonkulous comments on friends status updates. 3. Vulgar Facebook Trolls usually confine their comments merely to primitive, profane, off-topic observations. 4. Facebook Trolls spout gibberish in the hope that they’ll either bore or confuse to death those with whom they disagree. The average FB Troll is “a pursuitist who gromulates his adversarial computerists with height defining formulations to the disinterestingest adjunct.” (verb) 1.
CNET
cnet.com › tech › services & software › five types of facebook trolls, and what to do with them
Five types of Facebook trolls, and what to do with them - CNET
December 14, 2008 - Troll type: New service addict Confirm or ignore? Ignore · They became a friend of yours on MySpace, or maybe even followed you on LiveJournal, and ever since then, they’ve wanted to be your friend on every social network known to man.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/facebook › i went back on fb and its a dumpster fire of trolls. why did they let this happen?
r/facebook on Reddit: I went back on fb and its a dumpster fire of trolls. Why did they let this happen?
June 19, 2026 - Trolls have always been a thing on message boards and blogs going back to text based internet in its infancy. It just confirms that a level of annonymity means people reveal their true character and say things they wouldnt say to your face ... Fb is sketch now cause if you so much as share a differing opinion, there will be at least 12 Karen's scouring your facebook page for info to send to your employer.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/askanaustralian › facebook trolls
r/AskAnAustralian on Reddit: Facebook trolls
September 28, 2024 -
I have trolls attack me in public posts.When i check the profile they are completly empty.Who are these people?.
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They are fake accounts, probably bots. They are often referred to as 'sockpuppet accounts', and the behaviour you're witnessing is called 'astroturfing'. Basically, whoever made these accounts has tried to make it appear that they're all individual people, but in reality they are fake accounts that are all controlled by one person/group who is using them to falsely create the impression that x has more support than it really does. X might be a viewpoint, a politician, a product for sale, a media channel, etc etc. It's a story at least as old as social media. Google 'astroturfing' if you want to learn more.
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Trolls, bots and State actors - just block, block, block it improves the experience immensely.
Forbes
forbes.com › sites › petersuciu › 2020 › 06 › 04 › trolls-continue-to-be-a-problem-on-social-media
Trolls Continue To Be A Problem On Social Media
December 10, 2021 - "When you combine these with the lack of accountability that often comes with one's online behavior, we have emboldened people to speak in a virtual public sphere in a manner they would not otherwise do in a physical public space." It would seem that social media has created a platform for trolls to thrive, but has done little to tame the beasts.
Social Media Today
socialmediatoday.com › content › facebooks-new-target-group-trolls
Facebook's New Target Group: Trolls? | Social Media Today
You see, almost every Internet user has something trollish in him. Social networks build on aspects of human nature. By our participation in sites likes Facebook, we sign up to be "in-the-know" about other people's personal lives. We register for a network that is infused with gossip because, to some degree, we enjoy being exposed to provocative content. If Facebook manages to build on this, they will soon have two billion users.
MIT Technology Review
technologyreview.com › silicon valley › troll farms reached 140 million americans a month on facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows
Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election | MIT Technology Review
January 10, 2022 - Bad actors can simply copy viral content from Black Americans’ pages, or even Reddit and Twitter, and paste it onto their own page—or sometimes dozens of pages. Second, Facebook pushes engaging content on pages to people who don’t follow them. When users’ friends comment on or reshare posts on one of these pages, those users will see it in their newsfeeds too. The more a page’s content is commented on or shared, the more it travels beyond its followers. This means troll farms, whose strategy centers on reposting the most engaging content, have an outsize ability to reach new audiences.
Quora
quora.com › Why-is-Facebook-so-full-of-Republican-trolls
Why is Facebook so full of Republican trolls? - Quora
Answer (1 of 10): Mostly because the USA population is over 70% Christian. The Christians, being a majority, feel confused that their particular brand of Christianity that supports Trump is not guaranteeing his victory. Those Christians, which are not a majority of the Christians that live in t...
Reddit
reddit.com › r/doesanybodyelse › dae think facebook is only for morons and trolls these days??
r/DoesAnybodyElse on Reddit: DAE think Facebook is only for morons and trolls these days??
July 11, 2020 - My groups can sometimes be a great source of valuable information that I wouldn't have had otherwise. On my breadmaking groups many freely share their own recipes and give helpful advice. ... I’ll never understand this mindset. The only people who you have on Facebook are your friends and family. There are no morons or trolls on there unless you pick morons and trolls to be on your Facebook.
Quora
quora.com › Can-you-explain-the-meaning-of-trolling-on-Facebook-and-how-can-you-tell-if-someone-has-trolled-your-post
Can you explain the meaning of 'trolling' on Facebook and how can you tell if someone has trolled your post? - Quora
Answer: Trolling is simply saying something purposely shocking, controversial, or offensive for personal enjoyment; sometimes it’s because the troll genuinely opposes what’s being posted, but doesn’t wish to or doesn’t have the capacity to have a formal argument about it; sometimes ...
Kaspersky
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How to deal with trolling, bots and fake accounts
June 8, 2021 - Often, trolls are motivated by attention and emotional responses, which means replying to nasty or offensive comments is giving them what they want. Attempting to debate them will only make them troll more.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/facebook › anybody else feel like the majority of facebook/meta users ain’t real?
r/facebook on Reddit: Anybody else feel like the majority of Facebook/META users ain’t real?
March 13, 2025 -
Title, but to add a bit of context, this woman friended me about a month ago or so. Checked their profile, had a few pictures (strangely low quality), and they tried to have a conversation with me. The way they typed was weird, almost “robotic” in a sense, but also… not? Like, they used more “modern” acronyms like “fr” or “lmao”, so it leads to me to believe that there IS a person I was speaking to, just not the woman in the PFP lmao. Not to mention that they wanted me to convert their money into bitcoin because they couldn’t for whatever reason, so immediate red flag.
I also recently got absolutely bombarded with back to back friend requests from profiles for the past few days that I’m 99% sure that literally all of them were bots.
Facebook is… strange.
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Depends on how you define "real." Trollfarms with people working 18 hour shifts spreading nonsense on fake accounts with fake pictures and fake names ARE "real."
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Lot of that is trollfarms. Some of that is catfishing. Some of it is just straight up attempts at identity theft.
Sprague Media
spraguemedia.com › don’t feed the wildlife: managing trolls who comment on your social media posts
Don't Feed The Wildlife: Managing Trolls Who Comment On Your Social Media Posts | Sprague Media
March 18, 2025 - Trolls have no desire to understand or be understood. They simply want to target their next victim and make an example out of them for everyone else to see. Besides, they’re not really thinking at all.
Medium
medium.com › @WayneElsey › my-answer-to-social-media-trolls-and-why-i-will-always-double-down-5ff86d9db810
My Answer To Social Media Trolls And Why I Will Always Double Down | by Wayne Elsey | Medium
February 9, 2018 - Yet, trolls choose to spend their days making other people miserable. Again, it’s not going to happen. I have critics. We all do. Not everyone is going to love us or agree with our approach or thinking on things. That’s okay. So long as critics have legitimate critiques and are trying to do something in their lives with good intentions, I don’t have a problem with that.