The videos that pop up, the unsolicited "content" that's designed to "engage" and keep you on the page. I mean, there's a few-very few- of the movie clips that are lightly amusing, but by and large it's generated garbage content, here are but a few of the more ridiculous examples:
A Prisoner, black, in orange sitting in a courtroom being interrogated by a judge. The defendant denies any knowledge of the crime, any involvement, because he can't walk. An accident a few months earlier has left him paralyzed.
Meanwhile, behind the defendant and invisible to him a cop/courtroom security officer has dressed himself up in a gorilla suit and is slowly pantomiming his way towards the prisoners box. The judge continues his interrogation. Nope, he can't walk, he's paralyzed, blah blah blah. This will go on for the next 8 minutes. I haven't even clicked on play, just paused the scrolling. You know how this ends.
It's absolutely inane, completely stupid, and having paused the page to look at it (remember I didn't click) I'm besieged with these videos. They're all exactly the same, only a different convict, a different costume sneaking up on him, it's all bollocks. They probably film a hundred of them at once.
Or, one recently, the Albino girl makeover. A 25 year old poor albino virgin gets makeup, hair dye, contacts, turns out to be a stunner, and ends up heading out for a night out on the town. The same, again, this time a buff albino athlete. It occurs to me that probably I don't spend enough time thinking about the troubles albino's must have dating.
Or, maybe I'm spending a little too much time...
The homeless man makeovers, where some barber pulls a vagrant off the street, gives him a shave, haircut, he as well turns out to be a model, gives him a pep-talk and sends him on his way. There's a whole series of these.
The trick, of course, with these makeover videos is to find the model and make them look plausibly homeless. Or Albino. And then "clean" them up for the camera.
So, my god I must be getting old that I'm actually not scrolling past these, and the solution is probably to get rid of facebook but then how would I know what's going on...?