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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?

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

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.

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/... .

Trilobite ,

When I saw this post I tried to block the profile

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)

oldfart ,

When I quit Facebook over 10 years ago it was because it stopped showing me my friends’ posts and pushed random crap instead. I literally had to go friends’ profiles to see their posts even when checking the feed several times a day.

Looks like nothing changed?

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 ,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

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.

circuitfarmer ,
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The goal was always that the user would be the product. It was less clear at the beginning, because the advertising was far less intrusive (if you even saw an ad at all, in the early days), and the service was “free” at a time when the internet was comparatively young. So it gained a lot of popularity from novelty and being an actually useful communication tool.

But the communication tool portion was always a side effect of data collection. Any “free” service is ultimately just getting value from you in different ways. In the case of Facebook, once it had amalgamated enough data, the flood gates opened and the enshittification was extremely rapid. It will never go back to the way it was for many reasons, not the least of which being: it was designed to be the cesspool it is now.

Ultimately, all these seemingly random posts are an attempt to get you to continue to interact with the platform. If you read through comments on such posts, they do tend to drive engagement, even if it is just a user going “why is this in my feed?”

2pt_perversion ,

It’s non just Facebook either. Every big tech social media platform has headed in this direction of showing you stuff you don’t really want to see based on maximizing profit. For-profit social media seems to mostly be doomed to this outcome because it makes more money.

HootinNHollerin ,

Don’t use meta products if you have respect for yourself

Telorand ,

Don’t use Meta products.

Ftfy. 😁

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