I have again started to use Facebook since last few months. So I never see anything that I want to see. What surprises me is I always see exactly everything I d

I have again started to use Facebook since last few months. So I never see anything that I want to see. What surprises me is I always see exactly everything I don't want to see. I get people in friend suggestions that I must have removed (clicking on that "remove" button) like half dozens of times and they keep coming. I get stories that are not at all relevant to my taste, search history (even on other sites - assuming Fb tracks me anyway even with uBlock Origin) or anything I can attribute it to. I get page and group suggestions are ridiculously tangential to me as a person. I hide a story and I hide many similar stories and at times I also mark them spam, report but I still get more similar stories. Then they have some kind of limit on the number of posts/stories shown to you. At times, that limit seems to be like as low as 4-5 stories, sometimes more. This is very random. Then there is this completely irrelevant being shown to me throughout the week. Also, posts that I hide pop up again. I've not checked whether it happens all the time. Then one day I decided to check my friend's walls (the ones whom I have not unfollowed) and evaluate what I am actually seeing. Well, there were many text status updates that I would have loved to see, many nice photo shares, very few article shares (for some reason articles shared on Fb are not really the brightest imho), decent rants, some excellent political remark, most of these posts were recent and usually latest post on those walls, but guess what - they were not shown to me. I was shown posts that would force me to unfollow more friends and force me to close the Facebook tab a lot quicker than I might have otherwise. I guess maybe that's a good thing. As for this Slate article, felt like a paid PR piece. > No one outside Facebook knows for sure how it does this, and no one inside the company will tell you. Yeah, I guess, from an end user point of view, no one on the inside knows it either.