I was an avid Facebook user in the earlier years (2008-2010), and a regular several-times-a-day checker from 2010 until early 2017. I griped often about how it

I was an avid Facebook user in the earlier years (2008-2010), and a regular several-times-a-day checker from 2010 until early 2017. I griped often about how it had become ”boring”, full of random looking stuff interspersed with occasional nuggets I was really interested in. I tried to write a filter to strip out the boring stuff and failed, and it hit me that they were deliberate and optimal in their mixture of crap and good to keep me just within my tolerance level. I turned off notifications on my iDevices in late April and have checked it occasionally whenever I feel like it. I might look at it two or three times a week. I can’t quite bring myself to abandon it (because it serves a useful purpose in terms of communication and keeping up with far-flung friends and family) but on the whole it’s pretty useless and obnoxious on a daily basis. They overextended themselves by a wide margin. They went a Like too far. ;)