Facebook Manipulation of the User Experience

Image showing my inbox viewed in messenger (left) and the opera browser (right). The names are blacked out to protect identities. I left "PushBlack" clear because it is a commercial publication and good to use for clarity. Notice how it is at the top of the inbox in the browser, whereas it is third in messenger. It gets worse the lower down you go. These screenshots were made in succession, within a minute of each other as can be seen from the time and other details on the phone

Are you a frequent user of the messenger app? Do you belong to multiple, busy chats, some of which you have been included into without your permission but you didn't leave? Here is something you can do to see something very strange about Facebook chats on messenger.

Open messenger. Notice the new messages in your inbox? Don't open any of them but make 3 screenshots scrolling down so that you capture as many as possible.

Now open any browser, apart from Chrome. Ensure that it is an up to date version. Go to Facebook dot com. Click on the messenger icon to view your mail.

Cross check with the screenshots you made of your messages viewed in messenger to see if they are all displayed. If you are an avid user of Facebook who belongs to multiple chats then chances are that some of the groups and friends you see in messenger will be missing in the browser.

The messages that you see in messenger but don't see in the browser are generated by an algorithm that can be read by Facebook apps. Browsers don't see those messages.

To me, these chats and profiles are spoofs or spam, similar to the disappearing "Facebook User" profile only to the extent that these are made by external scammers, while the phenomenon mentioned before appears to be an inside job. It seems especially in the case of profiles that these are attempts to conceal identities from outside queries on them. It's like the profile exists on Facebook but cannot be seen by search bots that do not have the algorithm that allows them to read them.

Here is something else that is strange about some friends' profiles on Facebook that I have found the same explanation for.

Open Facebook in a browser. Navigate to your friend list. Open them one by one and check the url each time you have one open. Alternately, search for a profile of interest and check its url.

Normal Facebook urls contain part of your username in them, and these will be the names you used for registration. But I have observed that there are profiles that consist of just numbers. They sometimes look like this:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000300330etc., etc.

And other times they look like this:

https://www.facebook.com/1000300330etc., etc.

Normal Facebook profile urls read like this:

https://www.facebook.com/FirstName.LastName

I have tried searching the names of the people who own profiles that are displayed as digits in Google or duckduckgo and found that they don't show. I think that these profiles are generated by the Facebook algorithm in the same way groups are, because groups also consist of numbers, and maybe this is why they can only be read within the Facebook environment.

If this is the case then this is special privilege, and also an inside job. I do not remember being asked to create an account that is hidden from the view of search engines.

Lemme show you one last thing that is strange about Facebook.

Open messenger and go to chats you have had with friends. Select the lengthy ones and then take chunks of them that you then read through.

Open the browser and do the same that you did in messenger with the same message. Be careful to start reading from the same point where you did previously. When you are done, if you have my luck then you may find that the browser displays more messages than messenger, and if you have a good memory then you can pinpoint the exact location where the omission(s) occur.

It is typical for messenger not to display some messages, at least in my case but I doubt that this only happens to me.

Take note that the best time to catch the omissions is a short while after the deletion has occurred. I am talking from a few days to a week. I have noticed that in messenger the messages tend to "re-emerge" after this period has elapsed.

All of this suggests that we aren't just having our data sold on the open market by Facebook, but we are also being manipulated and forced into virtual spaces with strangers who are using their own identities but would rather their Facebook accounts not be found on the internet.

Imagine the potential harm that such an arrangement can have on your life? Imagine dating someone you fall in love with for years and discovering that the relationship failed because some crucial messages didn't show on both ends, leading to the creation of the wrong impression.

Imagine a spat that escalates with disastrous consequences when a message intended to explain a previous message is omitted.

Imagine that the character whose identity is being concealed that has wormed their way into your life is a serial killer or pedofile hiding from people who can recognize them by name is being protected from exposure by Facebook.