Forum awkwardness

kidiki

Hi fellow FitnessPals,
Are others finding the social aspect of this site difficult to navigate. Nothing feels intuitive. Adding friends is nearly impossible. Reporting odd encounters should be equally intuitive. Additionally, I have a new friend, that feels off. The responses feel software automated and strange. The user has logged in every day for years, but has not registered a single loss. I know that can happen in real life, but real people do not respond like robots. The user promotes themself as a young female from NZ. How do I report my concern that there may be AI spam that has infiltrated their friend base?

sollyn23l2

kidiki wrote: »

Hi fellow FitnessPals,
Are others finding the social aspect of this site difficult to navigate. Nothing feels intuitive. Adding friends is nearly impossible. Reporting odd encounters should be equally intuitive. Additionally, I have a new friend, that feels off. The responses feel software automated and strange. The user has logged in every day for years, but has not registered a single loss. I know that can happen in real life, but real people do not respond like robots. The user promotes themself as a young female from NZ. How do I report my concern that there may be AI spam that has infiltrated their friend base?

I would just remove them as a friend. When you click remove, it may give you the option to report.

AnnPT77

There's an announcement post here about how to report things like that:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10843235/how-to-report-inappropriate-unwanted-friend-requests

It's an older post, but most of the methods should still work. (I'm less certain about the special form option.)

cwolfman13

kidiki wrote: »

Hi fellow FitnessPals,
Are others finding the social aspect of this site difficult to navigate. Nothing feels intuitive. Adding friends is nearly impossible. Reporting odd encounters should be equally intuitive. Additionally, I have a new friend, that feels off. The responses feel software automated and strange. The user has logged in every day for years, but has not registered a single loss. I know that can happen in real life, but real people do not respond like robots. The user promotes themself as a young female from NZ. How do I report my concern that there may be AI spam that has infiltrated their friend base?

I would just remove as a friend...not sure if it will let you report it. But it is also possible that it's a real person and hasn't reported a single loss because they're in maintenance and/or they've been around for awhile and no longer count calories or whatever. I've been here since late 2012 and I haven't logged anything since Spring of 2013. I maintained for a good 8 years + without logging but remained active in the community for various reasons. I'm working on my COVID weight now, but I don't log, so you'd never see me log a loss even though I'm losing weight.

AnnPT77

Jeez, it isn't me, is it?

I log in every day, have done for years, never record any losses/gains, and most of my updates are just the automated MFP ones for exercise and logins (with the very rare human post or photo from me). I'm in maintenance, do gain and lose but don't bother updating MFP since it's all in a reasonable maintenance range (I put it in Libra), and like Community participation more than I like the timeline feed interactions so I rarely post there. I don't send friend requests, but do accept them.

While I'm barely a natural intelligence sometimes, I'm 100% not an artificial one. .

Wolfman's making a good point: If a person has a device synced for exercise, those updates would probably posted, along with the login ones, all automated. Have you noticed whether your mystery user participates in the Community? (Search doesn't work well any more to answer that question.) Do they have a visible food log?