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That doesn't actually do anything. It's like when you X out content and get the message "You'll see less of this type of content in your feed." You won't. It just keeps jamming it in there. I have never EVER clicked on a video suggestion. I don't think I've ever clicked on a group suggestion. I always delete them, yet they still make up about 40% of my feed.
 
I don't think you tried it, or did it properly. It worked for me. You have to move the curser from"all"
 
Mirah said:
I don't think you tried it, or did it properly. It worked for me. You have to move the curser from"all"
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I've tried it and it works for me......temporarily. Then it goes back to disappearing friends and the same 4 or 5 friends over and over...ad infinitum.
 
Do you have anyone chosen as "favorites"? It's annoying that you can only choose about 10.
 
Mirah said:
Do you have anyone chosen as "favorites"? It's annoying that you can only choose about 10.
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I still have over 4000 friends...most of them are leftovers from Diggy's adventure.

Most of the oldschool posters from here I'm still friends with...Pickle, Duckfucker etc
 
I dropped Facebook for the (second) time this Jan and I have quite honestly not missed it one bit. The only people I even messaged on there were people I see IRL.
 
Someone stole my account not long ago and after minor withdrawal I really wasn't missing it. But apparently they lost interest and I was able to use the tool to get in and recover it. Someone stole my LinkedIn account which I never use anymore, I wasn't able to recover it, and don't miss it at all. For reasons unclear to me, the person who stole it changed all the information on it (My name is NOT "Monica" BTW). Why even steal an account if you're not going to use it for identity fraud? I'd check out the person but apparently now you need a LinkedIn account to look at anything at all on LinkedIn and I just don't care that much.
 
On the plus side I guess if you needed to make duals Monica's now a good option :unsure:
 
You know, as far back as 2016 I remember having conversations with people about how shitty Facebook had gotten. But DAMN! It went full retard tonight. I mean at this point I don't even look at posts from people I know anymore, I just look at how much garbage Zuck has stuffed into my feed and then delete twice that much from my history. But tonight...I had, like, 20 consecutive ads. Then I needed to pop back in and send someone an IM (Long ago I deleted Messenger from my phone) and wound up deleting another 30 "likes."

At this point I'm back to 2017. But the going is considerably slower back then, because there is so much more activity. I spend very little time on Facebook today. And I react to very little stuff. Because of all the garbage. But in 2017 I could react to dozens and dozens of posts by friends in a single day? Did Facebook change? Yes. Did my friends change? Maybe. Maybe I like less stuff because, in addition to all the "HEY1! HEY!! CHECK OUT THIS GROUP!!!! YOU SHOULD TOTALLY BE FREINDS WITH IT!!!!11" garbage, increasingly, my "friends" repost the garbage Facebook is feeding them. Facebook is the Millenium serpent, eating itself, only it is productively eating itself and will soon disappear up its own asshole. :bergman:
 
I feel like the Zuk is getting desperate. Last week my feed got spammed with weed ads. This week it's luxury watches. It's like those shitty mall caricature artists: "Do you like go-carts?! Let's draw you on a go-cart!" Now if you'll excuse me, I can see from my Rolex that it is 4:20.
 
It’s a horrible platform and a big driver of the enshittification of the internet. Worse, it’s insidious. I’ve thought about closing my account more than once, but I’ve got a few important contacts there and nowhere else. Sure, I could tell people how to reach me on other platforms, but even that feels like work. Declaring you’re quitting Facebook always comes off as dramatic anyway, when in reality it’s just feed after feed of the lowest-grade slop imaginable, TONS of spam and scams, broken up occasionally by holiday snaps from Tenerife from the girl who sat three seats behind me in high school 25 years ago.
 
I had one briefly several years ago. 15 I think. I shut it down.

Virtually everyone I want to talk to has my phone number and email address.
 
Late 2017 seems to have been the tipping point*. I mean, by then I was already actively bitching about it online and throttling back content/cutting "friends" as protest but... I think I mentioned upthread that most of my time there now is spent deleting old content in response to how shitty the site is. I'm back to May 2019 on posts and October 2017 on "likes." And up to this point I "liked" maybe 20 posts a week, but when you get back to 2017 I could easily "like" 30 posts a day.

By 2016 or so I'd already noticed it was getting to suck. I forget when it started--2007? So it has sucked for longer than it was good. Google, at least, I think had more good years than shitty, but they get shittier every day and more time passes...
 
I’ve stepped back from the social-media algorithm lately, and with a bit of distance it finally clicks what you already know in theory: these places are designed to farm your engagement. But when you actually walk away, stop checking your feeds every five minutes and quit the doomscroll, nothing bad happens. Quite the opposite. Any fear of missing out on what’s happening is an illusion.

Forums like this one are a dying breed because X (Twitter), Facebook, Reddit and the rest siphoned off huge numbers of people and choked the organic growth of communities built around shared interests. In their place you get a feed of people you went to school with decades ago and some bloke you met at a party eight years back while having your content curated and controlled by billionaire tech-bro weirdos and sold to corporate interests to sell you shit. It’s not healthy.


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Mentalist said:
I’ve stepped back from the social-media algorithm lately, and with a bit of distance it finally clicks what you already know in theory: these places are designed to farm your engagement. But when you actually walk away, stop checking your feeds every five minutes and quit the doomscroll, nothing bad happens. Quite the opposite. Any fear of missing out on what’s happening is an illusion.

Forums like this one are a dying breed because X (Twitter), Facebook, Reddit and the rest siphoned off huge numbers of people and choked the organic growth of communities built around shared interests. In their place you get a feed of people you went to school with decades ago and some bloke you met at a party eight years back while having your content curated and controlled by billionaire tech-bro weirdos and sold to corporate interests to sell you shit. It’s not healthy.


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Which is why boards like this one will continue to exist.
 
Volpone said:
Late 2017 seems to have been the tipping point*. I mean, by then I was already actively bitching about it online and throttling back content/cutting "friends" as protest but... I think I mentioned upthread that most of my time there now is spent deleting old content in response to how shitty the site is. I'm back to May 2019 on posts and October 2017 on "likes." And up to this point I "liked" maybe 20 posts a week, but when you get back to 2017 I could easily "like" 30 posts a day.

By 2016 or so I'd already noticed it was getting to suck. I forget when it started--2007? So it has sucked for longer than it was good. Google, at least, I think had more good years than shitty, but they get shittier every day and more time passes...
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Interestingly, The Babylon Bee did a bit in 2018 that jibes with my take: https://babylonbee.com/news/facebook-adjusts-algorithm-to-show-you-even-more-terrible-content
 
I've always been anti-social media. I will browse carefully curated subreddits for hobbyist shit and local news, but that's about it. Never had a Facebook account, or Twitter really (I had or have a few joke/troll Twitter accounts but haven't logged in for years), nothing of that nature. Unfortunately social media does spill over... let's rephrase that... it has almost completely taken over the internet entirely. I mean witness shit like the Charlie Kirk thing. When supposedly legitimate news organizations are getting their content from a fucking Tweet or the alleged shooter is apparently part of the terminally online, something is fucking wrong.

I could go on about this for roughly forever, but you get the gist.
 
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