Facebook frustrations

[Art]

Facebook was created to keep up with friends. Sadly, the need to monetize has become so great that friend's posts are the fewest things you see on your feed.

Just today, I saw one post from a friend and I saw the following post about 20 times:


It's management being pressured for quarterly results to present to shareholders while forgetting the core mission. Sooner or later this will come back to bite them.

 

[Pepere]

The core mission of Facebook is money.

Keeping up with friends is only the hook.

I have absolutely no use for Facebook. Left it years and years ago. I refuse to feed the beast.

 

[Capraquaria]

I left FB about 16 months ago, for just that reason. Now I just text my friends, and I don't have to get bombarded with pointless or politically motivated garbage. It turned too much into 'most popular' posts being forced into my feed, and I missed some significant life events from distant friends because of what FB deems is important, not what I actually find important. FB's only priority is that YOU are the commodity.

 

[bizo]

I wanted to leave, but ... all my local aquarium and fishing groups are there, gear auctions, selling//buying plants, used stuff ...

Bottom line. I'm stuck with it. I already forgot it has to do anything with "friends". Most people don't even post anything anymore. It's like a hub for random hobbies.

 

[JayP]

I do truly wish there was an alternative that was what all the social apps started out trying to be, a place to connect with friends and groups, but it's always going to be about money eventually. The thing I find really annoying lately though is all the AI videos. It's gotten ridiculously out of hand to the point you can't trust anything you see anymore.

The only reason I'm still on FB is for marketplace. As soon as I'm done using that to sell off a few things, I'll be shutting down my FB account.

 

[BranchScape]

I wanted to leave, but ... all my local aquarium and fishing groups are there, gear auctions, selling//buying plants, used stuff ...

Bottom line. I'm stuck with it. I already forgot it has to do anything with "friends". Most people don't even post anything anymore. It's like a hub for random hobbies.

Facebook is at best a marketplace for groups and random things. Has nothing to do with friends and personal life updates now.

 

[Minorhero]

I spend a LOT of time each day on Facebook and frankly like it quite a bit. It's not about my friends/family updates though. I am a member of over 100 groups in a plethora of hobbies. Facebook is amazing at providing a single point to access all of those different hobbies. In that, its good. For catching up with people... not so much. Especially since a lot of folks (myself included) have made the conscious decision not to post personal details on social media.

 

[Pepere]

Personally I think the demise of Facebook has already begun…

Certainly recent court cases are going to have significant effect, but the Enpoopification of the whole user experience is probably going to be even more of a factor where the value proposition to the end user degrades to the point they cease using it and the majority of traffic becomes bot traffic, and advertisers wake up to the fact of what little value spending money on the site provides…

 

[SmartAlec13]

Only reason I am still on it is it's an easy way to show friends & family my tank and other stuff I am up to, versus reaching out to each one lol. Otherwise I would have ditched it a while ago.

 

[anewbie]

I have nothing good to say about facebook; all my friends have quit the company - the problem isn't making money to run the operation it is how to keep growing revenue no matter how much slime you throw.

 

[ample]

As someone under 30 I have exactly 0 use for Facebook as an actual social media platform. The random slop it pushes in my feed makes it completely unusable. I use it exclusively for Marketplace and a of couple very large professional pages in my field that I treat as a study group.

I follow my local aquarium groups as well but haven’t found it to be particularly helpful. I avoid any of the broader aquarium interest groups as well because they cater to the broadest audience, and it’s impossible to find any focused, meaningful content. I’m probably not trying hard enough to find higher quality pages, but the ones that show up spontaneously in my feed that have ten of thousands of members are mostly all the same.

I’m glad I found this forum, because even on Reddit it’s an exhausting echo chamber of beginners. The blind leading the blind. The most annoying thing is how much of an anti high tech hive mind it is.

 

[Kwyet]

I found out recently that if you click the “friends” button at the bottom, you actually see your friends posts. Otherwise, yes, you see a bunch of ads and random stuff from people you don’t know.

 

[ample]

I found out recently that if you click the “friends” button at the bottom, you actually see your friends posts. Otherwise, yes, you see a bunch of ads and random stuff from people you don’t know.

That’s true! However the people I know still posting on Facebook are not at all people close enough for me to keep up with. I’m glad the option to see a friends only feed exists, though .