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Stuff on your timeline doesn't appear there because Facebook picks stuff at complete random to display to you. Your feed is built from the sum of what your frie

Stuff on your timeline doesn't appear there because Facebook picks stuff at complete random to display to you. Your feed is built from the sum of what your friends post, and what your liked pages post. Granted, Facebook does an enormous amount of shenanigans to highlight the most engaging/enraging posts from that source, and they're manipulating your friends to re-post engaging/enraging things they've seen, so it can spread to you. But at the end of the day, the source for your feed is what your friends post. If all your friends post nothing but cute baby pictures, your feed is going to be 100% cute baby pictures, and nothing else. If your friends post nothing but cute cat pictures, it's caturday forever on your feed. And if your friends keep posting political bullshit that you hate, then that's what you're going to keep seeing. The position I don't understand is the one where people endlessly complain about how Facebook has turned to shit, and then expect Facebook to magically fix it for them? That's never going to happen. Either curate your feed, or stop using Facebook. Those are your options.

matsemann 6y ago
I disagree. My friends almost post nothing, but what they post I wamt to see. What they do much of however, is like and comment on pages. Fb, for some reason, think that's interesting to see. However, I cannot stop fb from doing so. I cannot say I don't want to see things this person comments on, then I have to mute them. I don't care that they comment on some post to win some product, or is tagging a friend in some viral video. I don't want my feed to be full of fake engagement. But I guess that's all Facebook is now, as no one really posts anything anymore, so that's what they show to make it seem things happen.
perl4ever 6y ago
Of course FB doesn't pick stuff at random; that's the problem! At complete random would be almost as good as chronological. I certainly wouldn't complain. Saying if everyone posted only agreeable stuff it would be fine is an impossible scenario. Nobody has friends that all post exactly the same thing all the time, and nobody is going to eliminate all their friends that aren't exactly identical. And you know, if you got nothing but saccharine positive thoughts and "law of attraction" style BS, that would be unbearable too. The well known saying is that "the poison is in the dose". Facebook can concentrate virtually anything into a toxic dose.

matsemann 6y ago

I disagree. My friends almost post nothing, but what they post I wamt to see. What they do much of however, is like and comment on pages. Fb, for some reason, think that's interesting to see. However, I cannot stop fb from doing so. I cannot say I don't want to see things this person comments on, then I have to mute them. I don't care that they comment on some post to win some product, or is tagging a friend in some viral video. I don't want my feed to be full of fake engagement. But I guess that's all Facebook is now, as no one really posts anything anymore, so that's what they show to make it seem things happen.

perl4ever 6y ago

Of course FB doesn't pick stuff at random; that's the problem! At complete random would be almost as good as chronological. I certainly wouldn't complain. Saying if everyone posted only agreeable stuff it would be fine is an impossible scenario. Nobody has friends that all post exactly the same thing all the time, and nobody is going to eliminate all their friends that aren't exactly identical. And you know, if you got nothing but saccharine positive thoughts and "law of attraction" style BS, that would be unbearable too. The well known saying is that "the poison is in the dose". Facebook can concentrate virtually anything into a toxic dose.