Like Joel, I was close to quitting Facebook, largely because of politics. And for similar reasons, the political posts were making me unhappy. So, what I do n

Like Joel, I was close to quitting Facebook, largely because of politics. And for similar reasons, the political posts were making me unhappy. So, what I do now is hide pretty much all personal feeds, and subscribe to groups. Most of my groups are musical (bands, symphony, jazz center), a few are art studios, theaters, or museums. This way, I still get to know about most (but not all) of the events going on, without the politics. It's made Facebook a much better place for me, though at this point, I'm really just using it as an events aggregator. For a while, I tried the "Show me less like this" response. I slowly came to realize that this button doesn't do a damn thing (actually, it's worse). Facebook didn't stop showing me this kind of news, at all. At the time, I figured "show me less" was like those crosswalk buttons that don't have any actual influence on the timing of lights, but deter jaywalking by providing an illusion of control to a pedestrian. I realize now that it's probably worse than that - "show me less like this" is probably the Facebook equivalent of asking a spammer to take you off the email list. All it does is tell them they have a live one.