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This explains a lot. About 2 years ago my feed suddenly began to be filled with posts from random pages I had followed. Some I had followed a decade ago and had

This explains a lot. About 2 years ago my feed suddenly began to be filled with posts from random pages I had followed. Some I had followed a decade ago and had not seen a post from in years. BTW, when I say filled I mean filled. Literally like 30 page posts with maybe one IRL friend or family post showing up in-between. It got so bad that to actually see the family photos and announcements I cared about I had to manually unsubscribe from almost every page I had ever followed. I guess I'll never know for sure but I'm going to guess "boosting" was to blame?

boplicity 4y ago
Once you unfollow every page, they'll start bombarding you with "suggested" posts from pages. There's no way to get away from them anymore. It's how they're able to sneak in their overwhelming amount of advertising.
- SaltyBackendGuy 4y ago
  I just found this out. I thought by unsubscribing from the boosted posts that I would win back my feed... I was wrong.
- jwalton 4y ago
  > There's no way to get away from them anymore. Well, you can just stop using Facebook. This is basically what I’ve done, because I can’t stand the ridiculously low signal to noise ratio. 90% if the content on FB is content I have no interest in, and I am just not willing to wade through it to get to the parts I am.
  - JackFr 4y ago
    Honestly it is so goddamn easy to quit Facebook. Really. Just stop. I haven’t been on Facebook in 10 years.
    - boplicity 4y ago
      I'm on Facebook largely because I have a chronic disease, and that's where the active support groups are. It's hard to get away from, because of that.