There's this new sucker post going around Facebook with a surprising amount of takers:

I would like to thank Everyone for telling me how to do the bypass. I wondered where everybody had been!

This is good to know: It's ridiculous to have over 540 friends and only 25 are allowed to see my post.

It WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed. I’m seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years.

Here’s how to bypass the system FB now has in place that limits posts on your news feed.

Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts. Therefore,

Hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste.

This will bypass the system.

If you are reading this message, do me a favor and leave me a quick comment...a "hello," a sticker, whatever you want, so you will appear in my newsfeed

 

 This is the parody I just wrote:

I would like to thank Everyone for letting me know who still falls for the bypass. I wondered if anyone was left!

This is good to know: Nothing you post on your Facebook page does anything to change what shows up in your news feed. It is just text. Someone at Facebook would have to deliberately program everything you think happens! And it would be stupid because it would undermine the control they already have over your news feed.

It DOESN'T WORK!! I thought the general population was excusably computer ignorant when the mainframe in "War Games" just up and decided that tie games of tic-tac-toe meant it should override nuclear launch commands. But that was 1983 and relatively few people had computer exposure.

I was sure everyone would roll their eyes and ask "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" in 1996 when the humans in Independence Day defeated the aliens by writing a computer virus and copied it into their advanced alien spaceship because the aliens happened to have a port that was perfectly compatible with the plug the human spaceship has. Surely everybody already had a drawer full of cords that never fit the device they wanted! But no! Audiences were fine with it! And that code was so universal even computers from another galaxy executed it. ChatGPT isn't that good. That human still has a job!

It's not possible I'd be the only one in the theatre shouting, "Come on! Why is he still on the access list?" when Tom Cruise broke into the building to kidnap the telepath by using his old eyeballs in a bag in Minority Report in 2002. Surely by then SOMEONE involved in the movie would point out that we already know today how to revoke people's access even if you use retina scanners. By then every movie was being edited digitally on a computer. But NOPE! That weak hack worked not just once but TWICE! Nobody learned from the first break in!

I have a whole news feed with posts from people I haven’t seen in years falling for this incessantly repeated dumb trick.

Here’s how to protect yourself from any future attempts to make you look silly. Hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste.

This will let everyone know you're never falling for it again.

If you are reading this message, do me a favor and leave me a quick comment...a "hello," a sticker, whatever you want, so you will prove you already get it or get it now

[ Guess what? *That* might affect who shows up in your news feed! With love and the best of intentions from GBM, 8/15/23 ]