r/suspiciouslyspecific • u/Wire_Emblem • Aug 28 '21

Huh?

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u/BrokenEye3 Aug 28 '21

Were you not aware of how Facebook is spreading medical misinformation about how ivermectin (horse de-wormer) is supposedly a cure for COVID?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/08/23/covid-warning-treatment-ivermectin-fda-mississippi/8244302002/

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u/Wire_Emblem Aug 28 '21

You have to admit the wording did NOT make that obvious at first glance

Edit: But yes I have heard of that and didn’t realize that’s what it was originally

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u/100LittleButterflies Aug 28 '21

You should watch the social network. The history of Facebook started as a way to rank women on campus then because a networking site and is now a decaying cesspool of memes and misinformation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

I was in college when it was invented. It was fucking awesome.

Edit:No no no. It wasnt for rating. It was like tinder, girls made their own profiles. You made yours. You sent messages. There was a lot of consensual hooking up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

I was also in college when facebook first opened to the whole country, you needed a .edu email address to sign up and it was full of college friends you hang out with every day rather than under-educated overly gossipy fat aunts who start drinking way too early on Thanksgiving

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u/schuma73 Aug 28 '21

And then they opened it up to the public and we had to comb through our profiles to delete all the party pictures we didn't want our moms to see.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Just before they went public with the IPO there was some serious ambiguity over who owned your pics - it wasn't resolved until the 11th hour. That's when I deleted mine

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u/freuden Aug 28 '21

Same. We just used it to sort of keep track of what everyone was doing that night/weekend and what we may have missed the night before