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My Facebook feed is nothing but ads, low effort clickbait, and liberal anti-Trump news pieces. I'm pretty liberal myself but I just find the incredible level of
by nilkn 10y ago
My Facebook feed is nothing but ads, low effort clickbait, and liberal anti-Trump news pieces. I'm pretty liberal myself but I just find the incredible level of groupthink to be completely insufferable.
Content from friends and family is rare to nonexistent these days.
For finding clickbait, memes, etc., reddit is pretty much strictly superior to FB.
If I want to follow the news, my FB feed is one of the most biased sources on the internet.
In short, FB has almost no purpose for me anymore.
- astrowilliam 10y agoInstalling an ad-blocker could save you a ton of head aches.
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- kristianc 10y agoWhy? Adblockers are useless for filtering out think pieces and low effort clickbait. They're not even very good at targeting Facebook Ads.
- thetomthought 10y agoWhile I haven't added anything for memes and clickbait, some of the noise can be filtered out with Sadblock (http://sadblock.io http://sadblock.io)
- kristianc 10y agoThis is pretty cool - will give it a try on Desktop. Shame nothing for mobile.
- alexbecker 10y agoThis is a great example of an extension I'd love to try out if the security model for extensions wasn't so broken.
- tiatia 10y agoPeak-a-boo http://socialfixer.com/ http://socialfixer.com/
- bigbugbag 10y agoI don't get why people are engaging in a whack a mole competition with facebook trying to fix something that is voluntary designed to be broken. Why don0t they simply move away to some alternatives that's designed with the user first.
- onewaystreet 10y agoFacebook shows you stuff that you have shown interest in or has been shared by your friends. If you want to expand the range of opinions you see in your feed follow some less liberal people.
- ben_jones 10y agoNo they show you stuff that you and people they think are like you have shown interest in or has been shared by your friends*. Friends being people you added because you felt obligated to not people you have mutual interests or hobbies with
- snowwrestler 10y ago> If I want to follow the news, my FB feed is one of the most biased sources on the internet. A couple years ago I made a concerted effort to make better use of Twitter. I aggressively added any account that seemed to be producing interesting and informative tweets, and then pruned the ones that turned out to be bad. Today my #1 source of news is Twitter. My feed is full of reporters, producers, experts, and commentators who are providing up to date info and analysis--and other points of view. I log into FB far more rarely than I used to.
- kevinmannix 10y agoAgree 100%. I source almost all my news via Twitter - I haven't found a product that streams relevant information / news quite as well. I don't really get all the backlash toward Twitter, other than surfacing more news / influencers.
- m_mueller 10y agoAs someone with lots of people on FB for many of whom my FB has become the only way of contacting me - is there any way I can keep my FB account where I only get notified about personal messages and nothing else? What annoys me most is this constant E-mail harassment to try to get my screentime back.
- thewhitetulip 10y agothere is a hack, unfollow everyone and every page and use messenger.com, I think that's the website of FB Messenger.
- bigbugbag 10y agoYou would probably be better off by migrating away from facebook altogether. These kind of hacks may exist but are short lived as facebook changes so those would stop working.
- norea-armozel 10y ago>My Facebook feed is nothing but ads, low effort clickbait, and liberal anti-Trump news pieces. Hah, thanks to my cousin I get the conservative clickbait pages. It's just weird how people just share that sort of junk. I prefer sharing the Babylon 5 memes and jokes (that mostly no one gets) which I have to wonder if I'm confusing her and the rest of the family yet (No one remembers Zathras...).