I gave up facebook about 3 years ago at this point. The main result was that the noise was turned down. As a consequence I could listen to myself better. I fe

I gave up facebook about 3 years ago at this point. The main result was that the noise was turned down. As a consequence I could listen to myself better. I feel the same way about following news and really all ad-enabled content. The point is to increase viewership of advertisements. Really the only reliable way to increase engagement is to create something eye-catching (tiktok) or controversy (news). The genius in FB is that for a long time it crowd sourced optimizing engagement to users. People just ended up posting things that would rile people up and get them to be on FB longer. In this sense people were the product to other people.