Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Buttflapper@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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I remember when you could go on Facebook and look through your feed at what your friends are saying, catch up with them, and browse posts that they have made. Now, it’s just completely random and chaotic, almost nonsensical. There’s no logical sense to my Facebook feed at all. As you can see in the image, they are showing me stuff that I’m not even following. This is not even something that I am actively a part of! It’s some random group. So what’s the point of following a group or liking a page, if they’re just going to show you random stuff anyway?

Like, wtf happened to this website?

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
lol “now.”

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- Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It wasn’t that bad several years ago, I remember during the pandemic, lots of people were interacting with each other. It gets progressively worse every year.
  
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badelf@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s because you’re still supporting them. That crap you see puts money in Zucker’s pocket. Delete your account and it will stop.

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Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use an extension called FB Purity and the amount of bullshit it filters out is insane.

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Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Now?

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endofline@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The user base has changed. Before it used to be used by young people willing to share their parts of lives, exchanging f.e. studying material Now it is used by mostly older people (over 30) having family not willing that much to share anything from their lives except from talking to their relatives over the messanger.

So who creates the information today? I guess bots and sometimes some facebook groups but I noticed that facebook shares your group posts to absolutely not related people to that group.

Including your mum and sister, the posts related on smoking weed and going to techno parties.

Young people (Gen-Z) don’t use facebook pretty much at all. Sometimes maybe messanger because of their family

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- Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Older people, over 30
  
  😭
  
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  - endofline@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes, different generation. I didn’t write OLD or ELDERLY. Yes, we grow older - accept it or not :-)
    
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jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Aw, I remember Facebook.

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- spyd3r@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Was great when it was just for organizing college parties and finding hookups.
  
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ian@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s a centralised network. They need to make maximum profit and don’t need to care about users, because they won’t leave whatever nasty thing happens. Being on there encourages friends and family to stay and suffer too. And keeps people off of decentralized networks.

I’m surprised people stay on Facebook, then grizzle about how bad they’ve helped it become.

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kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Complains about the crap on Facebook by re-posting that same crap to lemmy…

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I manage to avoid all that crap on Facebook by… not using Facebook.

If it’s so full of garbage, what’s the attraction? Why keep going there?

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