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chickenfillet123 · 28/10/2024 22:34

I’ve had Facebook since 2006, have never viewed and looked for inappropriate content on there! the past 6 months or year every couple of scrolls shows me a photo of a barely clothes woman or memes based around big breasts etc. Just suggestive and weird content. my marketplace is similar with paintings of naked girls and things of that sort. I don’t want to see this stufff and I’m wondering why it would come up? any ideas. my partner doesn’t have Facebook but does use mine when at work as gets bored on his break. I’ve asked him if his seen anything weird or inappropriate on there and his sworn he never has and when I’ve showed him the market place stuff he wondered how it was actually allowed and not reported. I’m confused as to why it’s now showing? do you get this stuff- I mark it all as show less but get even more!

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Mlanket · 29/10/2024 10:03

I get a lot of werewolf porn suggestions.

Thats niche!

Mlanket · 29/10/2024 10:06

I went through a phase of constantly getting adverts about erectile dysfunction. No one uses my account except me and I don’t have a penis.

Sassybooklover · 29/10/2024 10:20

Generally whatever you are searching for online in Google, will then show you similar content on social media. I was looking at package holidays earlier on today, and suddenly in Facebook, there are ads for TUI, hotels, Jet2, flights etc. If your husband has been using your phone/tablet, then the reason why it's showing up in your Facebook feed, is because this is the content he's been searching/looking at online!!

Nikitaspearlearring · 29/10/2024 10:24

Mlanket · 29/10/2024 10:06

I went through a phase of constantly getting adverts about erectile dysfunction. No one uses my account except me and I don’t have a penis.

I came on to say this too. But not any more, thankfully. So your BF might be totally innocent!

pointythings · 29/10/2024 10:25

I get stuff I'm interested in - archery, cats, science, and updates from friends and family. I've had to tell FB about 1000 times that I don't want to see evangelical churches and their ads, but it's got it now. Basically your OH is lying.

ManhattanPopcorn · 29/10/2024 10:34

It's not necessarily showing what has been searched on Facebook. It will pull from things that have been searched on the device. If your Facebook is logged in on your husbands phone you will get suggestions based on what he's looking at elsewhere on his phone. Somewhere on his phone he's looking at porn. Given that you keep choosing 'see less' but continuing to see even more, I'd assume that he is looking at a lot of porn.

ginasevern · 29/10/2024 11:06

Tell DH to get his own FB then see if the problem stops. I think it probably will.

NetballHoop · 29/10/2024 11:22

I have a Facebook account that ONLY gets used to read posts on a page about a tiny Scottish village in the Highlands. I still get friend requests from bikini clad women. Only a few per year though.

I don't see any adverts as my ad-blocker deals with them.

Itsmychristmasdress · 29/10/2024 11:29

I also get Jennifer Aniston head photoshopped onto other bodies (like, as if hers isn't good enough!!) Because I have liked Friends.

FictionalCharacter · 29/10/2024 11:50

CrispyCrumpets · 28/10/2024 22:46

Change your password and insists he gets his account. The problem will probably resolve itself.

Yep. It’s him OP, no doubt.
It’s always a terrible idea to let someone else use any account of yours.

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 29/10/2024 11:57

Facebook just throws random crap at you these days. I spent a few weeks getting a load of pictures of the staff of some coffee shop in Perth where all the staff where bikinis.

Then it was a load of flat earth stuff, and now I'm getting a load of the Nathan Pyle Cartoons with the blue aliens.

None of these things are things I've searched, clicked on or even lingered on. Facebook has just decided on a whim that thats what 30% of my content will be this week.

I really don't see the point of it at all these days

CynicalSunni · 29/10/2024 12:26

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 29/10/2024 11:57

Facebook just throws random crap at you these days. I spent a few weeks getting a load of pictures of the staff of some coffee shop in Perth where all the staff where bikinis.

Then it was a load of flat earth stuff, and now I'm getting a load of the Nathan Pyle Cartoons with the blue aliens.

None of these things are things I've searched, clicked on or even lingered on. Facebook has just decided on a whim that thats what 30% of my content will be this week.

I really don't see the point of it at all these days

What is with those nathan pyle aliens??
I just find them unfunny. Are they popular? Or is this nathan fella paying fb?

Bananalanacake · 29/10/2024 12:42

I keep getting stuff about horror films and Terrifier 3 when I can't stand horror.

Onestepfromendingitall · 29/10/2024 12:53

I have two fb accounts and the second one doesn't get used very often and hardly any friends on there. So as a result, Facebook fills my feed with whatever it can find. Last year we had a phase of mummified bodies & archaeological finds. No matter how much I reported and/hid, it kept coming. I have NEVER searched for such things or anything remotely related to it.
Facebook is weird

Onestepfromendingitall · 29/10/2024 12:53

Are you female OP? I only ask as if you're male, then it could just be some low level sexism on the part of the algorithm?!

ChristmasInTheDistance · 29/10/2024 13:09

Wellbeige · 28/10/2024 23:05

Urgh.

A few weeks ago I went to Thorpe Park. Very long drive. Teenagers forgot their jackets/hoodies. I lent them my stuff and wore my dry robe.

I must have been talking about my dry robe and my phone was listening.

I was then fed groups I might like…

yes there was a photo of me on ‘Dry Robe Wankers’. Awful.

Sorry, but this made me laugh out loud!😁

I often think my iPhone “listens in”… my DP and I have often been discussing some random stuff - and POW! My feed is whatever that subject had been talked about. Worrying, really🤔

TheSilkWorm · 29/10/2024 13:16

It's 100% related to what he's looking at on your phone. My Facebook doesn't show me anything like that.

murasaki · 29/10/2024 13:25

He's been looking at tits, they're not random posts. I'm currently swamped by posts about my football team and winter coats. Which is totally me at the moment.

Shessweetbutapsycho · 29/10/2024 13:26

I shouldn’t laugh 🤭
Youre being very naive… the algorithm is showing you exactly what you’re [boyfriend] is viewing

murasaki · 29/10/2024 13:27

My phone once told me I needed to leave the house now to arrive at x place at x time. It must have raided my emails and seen the tickets to x event. I was a bit freaked out, even though it was totally right and I was just leaving at the time.

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viennawaitsforyouu · 29/10/2024 13:31

I don’t go searching for it but I get it on mine too

NotbloodyGivingupYet · 29/10/2024 13:40

Feeling slightly disappointed that Facebook doesn't feel me worthy of werewolf porn 😁

MartinCrieffsLemon · 29/10/2024 15:03

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I've noticed this as well actually

Lots of dormant groups about topics no longer relevant are now full of AI generated nonsense or click bait like they've been "acquired" by content farmers

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