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Facebook has become a cesspool of clickbaits. Less that 1/3 of my feed is people I know (most of which quitted posting anything years ago) or groups I subscribe
by kimi 3y ago
Facebook has become a cesspool of clickbaits. Less that 1/3 of my feed is people I know (most of which quitted posting anything years ago) or groups I subscribed to - the rest is literally spam, as in meat that's been ground finely and repackaged in a thousands ways. The result is a general sense of nausea.
- usrusr 3y agoThis. And I keep staring at it, under the excuse of a faint hope that it might perhaps build partial immunity to attention dump feeds that aren't yet quite as terrible (and therefore more dangerous)
- tommica 3y agoAnd hitting your head is a great way to improve your neck muscles.
- JAlexoid 3y agoThere is some config, where you set your feed to be your friends and similar. I use Facebook only because the town groups are all there. It's the local forum board, and barely anything else for me at this point.
- chihuahua 3y agoYeah, I haven't had this experience of FB showing me random stuff I didn't ask for. All I see is updates from my friends, and pages I explicitly joined (e.g. Raccoons, Cross Washington Mountain Bike Route, etc). If there's annoying stuff on my feed, it's because of something I did, and can undo (e.g. unfollow someone who posts annoying stuff)
- hotpotamus 3y agoWhenever I'm told about the impressive work people are doing at their FAANG dev job, I always wonder what they mean. Because the product I see is not particularly appealing (I suppose I am the product though). They did at least switch from showing me political rage bait to women whose nipples I can clearly see through their clothing, which is indeed more pleasing to me, but not what I go to Facebook for, and eventually drove me off.
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- suzzer99 3y agoI have no idea why or how, but lately FB has been showing me a ton of really interesting "suggested for you" content that actually gets me sucked in. Stuff like clips from nature docs, min-docs on extinct megafauna, time-lapse building a cabin in the woods, etc. I feel like I must be part of some pilot program to actually show people stuff they want to see. I'm sure it won't be deemed profitable enough.