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Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

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?

NineMileTower ,

You know what sucks about Facebook? The fact that it took the reigns from Craigslist and you can’t buy local used stuff without having a Facebook account. I hate hate hate that. I want to sell my used shit without a Facebook account. It’s all fucking tire kickers anyway.

bluGill ,

The solution is to keep using craigslist - it still exists and gets some activity. Ensure that it gets more.

BearOfaTime ,

I have never been on Facebook, never even been on the website.

The day it started I told my college-age family that it was a privacy nightmare. They called me paranoid.

bluGill ,

It is a privacy nightmare. However if you only use it for keeping up with distance friends it is a useful tradeoff. However because they must have so much private information to be useful for that purpose you need to ensure they never have any other purpose. Which is why I won't use marketplace or groups - there are alternatives that don't already have private information.

Takumidesh ,

Facebook’s Shadow profile on you doesn’t care whether you have an account or visited their site.

NineMileTower ,

Ok. Will do! Thanks!

TheFeatureCreature ,
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world avatar

This. If people really want to buy something they will check all available websites for the item(s) they’re looking for. I still use CL exclusively and refuse to touch FB Marketplace even with a burner account because it requires a phone number.

Telorand ,

Absolutely this. In the town I moved from, Craigslist was the defacto town market. In this one, it’s FB Marketplace.

FB doesn’t have a stranglehold because they’re better; these spaces can and do evolve organically.

desertdruid ,

Craiglist doesn’t even have my city listed

DarkThoughts ,

As a non American I'm more salty about Oculus. lol
Although at its height it was also severely annoying that every freaking company used FB pages instead of their own websites, including for support requests. So without FB you literally could not contact them. Luckily that trend only held up for a few years but it was still annoying as hell.

Glitch ,

I totally agree here, on both points

evasive_chimpanzee ,

Oculus was founded by a shitty person who sold to Facebook and then went on to help make a company to bring Big Tech into surveillance and autonomous weapon systems. Basically, he’s trying to bring on an orwellian nightmare.

Oculus would have gone bad weather or not Facebook bought them.

Rai ,

hugs my index

WordBox ,

Just use craigslist. I do. Even in low pop areas it works.

evasive_chimpanzee ,

I don’t understand why people like Facebook marketplace. It’s so transparently a way for them to just gather more shopping habits data on you, and it’s too easy for scammers to use. They act like having an account somehow makes it harder to scam.

I would much rather support the website run by a skeleton crew that has no unnecessary features than get a few bucks more on FB marketplace. If I’m selling something that I’ve used, it’s cause I want to get rid of it, anyway.

ShepherdPie ,

People use it because that’s where the sellers are at. I also liked Craigslist before but Facebook ate their lunch plus one slight advantage from marketplace is seeing who you’re buying from beforehand. It makes it a lot easier to weed out fake listings when you see someone just created their account this year or if they have bad ratings.

Vehicle listings are absolute garbage though as the filtering options are super basic or ridiculous like you can filter by the color of a car but not engine size. I don’t know of a single person who searches for cars/trucks based on their color.

Raiderkev ,

Nextdoor is also good for selling stuff. But you need to verify your address through either an ID or they send you a post card. Keeps the bots off though.

Churbleyimyam ,

It’s all fucking tire kickers anyway.

I had an instance recently where it was faster and easier to literally make an item with my bare hands than to coordinate a purchase of one via marketplace.

OldWoodFrame ,

Reddit is like this too on the app. Some of the worst algorithm recommendations I’ve ever seen. “You like (your local city subreddit), you might also like (some city you don’t live in subreddit).” Why?

The worst is that is has ruined my porn account because it doesn’t recommend NSFW subs so I have to scrape past random unrelated garbage like the Pokémon card valuation subreddit and /r/cement, I counted and it went 40 posts between NSFW posts once. On my account that is exclusively subscribed to NSFW subs.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I thought it has been this way for like… a decade?

spongebue ,

Not really. There were plenty of random pages, but you really had to seek it out to see it. Now an overwhelming majority of non-ad posts are stuff like this (and I wouldn’t be surprised if they pay to have this stuff seen, basically making it an ad)

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I guess I’ve been away from Facebook long before this started showing up.

Bruncvik ,
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Two years ago, I quit FB for six months. Then I checked my feed, and counted six friends’ updates and zero group posts in the first 100 items. 94% of posts were ads or “suggested” content. So, I closed FB and never went back again. Whatsap statuses is where I find my friends’ updates these days.

ATDA ,

More things clicked means more good. Here’s some slop you may like. Click it.

shortwavesurfer ,

Why do you think the vast majority of us are here? That would be one good reason.

beefbot ,

💥✨ e n s h i t t i f i c a t i o n ✨💥

angelmountain ,

Why are you still on it though?

BurnSquirrel ,

It’s been a long, long time since facebook has been like you are describing.

It’s been ads, and old uncle facebook fox news memes for a while. Lately they’ve been filling it with AI pictures and bot farmed memes. Gotta admit the memes have gotten slightly better, or at least slightly more targeted as of late.

Anyway, my point was, it’s been shit for a decade

Raiderkev ,

I’m pretty sure people in general stopped posting there, so they just shove this crap on there because otherwise it’d be an elephant graveyard

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Empty Internet Theory but its just the “Recommended For You” stuff that Facebook shoehorns in between the pictures of my nieces that I occasionally drop in to look at.

Its funny. When you go into some of the early Facebook history, Zuckerberg is exploring monitization options. He floats the idea of turning it into the kind of intrusive, obnoxious, ads-everywhere experience that had shown up on local news websites and the worst kinds of forum spaces. He (supposedly) rejects it, in pursuit of a more sophisticated kind of mass marketing. The theory being that this kind of invasive content scares away users, and what we really want is to maximize the user base rather than to maximize the monetary value of each user.

But ten years later, we’re right back to a website that’s indistinguishable from eye-ball gouging Geocities crap. The “put ads everywhere to maximize revenue” folks won out in the end. Zuckerberg’s genius move was to simply hold them back until the website started hitting the post-one-billion user base load. But then this was always the end game. Just clickbait across everything, with a periodic pop-over ad demanding that you give the site money to save it from itself.

contrefeu ,
@contrefeu@akko.contref.eu avatar

@Raiderkev @UnderpantsWeevil Is it genius or is it capitalism's end game, where any square inches of potential profit has to be seized in order to satisfy the "forever growth" mantra leading companies to shitify their products with ads/subscriptions/... .

DelightfullyDivisive ,

The default is an enshittified feed that shows you algorithm-chosen content. To see the old version of facebook, tap the menu in the upper right corner, then select feeds, then select friends.

I’ve been going there less and less lately. They started putting ads in the notifications section as well.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

lol “now.”

Buttflapper OP ,

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.

jaggedrobotpubes ,

Aw, I remember Facebook.

Trilobite ,

When I saw this post I tried to block the profile

Smokeless7048 ,

facebook keeps pushing ‘vegans are evil’ and ‘lets make milk mean raw milk again’ posts on me.

Just… stop. let me enjoy my friends and groups

SuiXi3D ,
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They keep feeding me astronomy-related videos, but only the ones with flat-earthers and Jesus-botherers in the comments.

XeroxCool ,

High interaction is all that matters.

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