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I stopped using Facebook years ago but recently returned to it to keep up with some college friends. I absolutely loathe how much Facebook keeps pushing content

I stopped using Facebook years ago but recently returned to it to keep up with some college friends. I absolutely loathe how much Facebook keeps pushing content on me that I neither want, nor find any interest in. To be clear, this is only on my phone. When I am using Facebook in my browser I am blessed with the F.B. Purity extension which gets rid of all of that. I realize FB wants me to engage more, and this is their hapless attempt at forcing that engagement, but it has been next to meaningless to me and deeply annoying. https://www.fbpurity.com/&ved=2ahUKEwilwaHave-FAxVt4ckDHR5EDtwQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1u-0Av4ZLSgmsV_YuGCzGp https://www.fbpurity.com/&ved=2ahUKEwilwaHave-FAxVt4ckDHR5ED...

indigochill 2y ago
Imagine engaging users with a desirable experience they look forward to returning to vs trying to force content on them that they resort to third parties to deflect. Way back ~2006 or so if memory serves, Facebook was actually fun and the chronological feed actually seemed to work. Something broke a couple years later and it's never been the same since. Which is especially weird to me given Mark was careful (at least last I looked) to retain majority ownership, but seems he has other priorities these days.
bluGill 2y ago
I make it a point to hit "block all from" anytime I see something shared, after two of those blocked I close Facebook. Like you I have a few friends who's life I want to keep up on. I don't want to see cats - unless it is their cat. I don't want to see a political meme - unless it is one they personally worked hard to create. I want to see their life, and that is often only available on Facebook (I could call that girl who lives in Alaska, but we never were close and if everyone liked me called for 30 seconds a day just to see if anything of interest happened nobody would have time to do anything else.) When I work alone it disappears in the statistics. However I'm hoping more people start acting like me - enough that Facebook notices and starts giving an option to only see the life of my friends and if there isn't anything just let me go back to living. Right now they keep me scrolling for the friend I haven't seen in ages who might have posted something but the algorithm decides I don't want to see it even though I do.

indigochill 2y ago

Imagine engaging users with a desirable experience they look forward to returning to vs trying to force content on them that they resort to third parties to deflect. Way back ~2006 or so if memory serves, Facebook was actually fun and the chronological feed actually seemed to work. Something broke a couple years later and it's never been the same since. Which is especially weird to me given Mark was careful (at least last I looked) to retain majority ownership, but seems he has other priorities these days.

bluGill 2y ago

I make it a point to hit "block all from" anytime I see something shared, after two of those blocked I close Facebook. Like you I have a few friends who's life I want to keep up on. I don't want to see cats - unless it is their cat. I don't want to see a political meme - unless it is one they personally worked hard to create. I want to see their life, and that is often only available on Facebook (I could call that girl who lives in Alaska, but we never were close and if everyone liked me called for 30 seconds a day just to see if anything of interest happened nobody would have time to do anything else.) When I work alone it disappears in the statistics. However I'm hoping more people start acting like me - enough that Facebook notices and starts giving an option to only see the life of my friends and if there isn't anything just let me go back to living. Right now they keep me scrolling for the friend I haven't seen in ages who might have posted something but the algorithm decides I don't want to see it even though I do.