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I think this is a great turning point for Facebook and might even bring Facebook back on the map SOCIAL media wise. Since almost all people I know barely use Facebook anymore for communication, because you just don’t see any posts by your friends no more.

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Actually, they're just forcing businesses that have pages to pay for ads. Like if you have a well known page that has grown through shares and likes, you'll be needing to pay money to reach the people that have liked your page.

I don't have a problem with Facebook asking people to pay for the value provided, especially if it actually increases my utility of it as a user. (Which, admittedly, I'm not anymore - partially due to this problem.)

Yet they over time created this crucial need of local/small business to have a Facebook page if they want to engage with potential customers and such, but now they change this “contract”.

The truly evil thing here is that page admins are prompted relentlessly by Facebook to purchase "likes", which Facebook makes more and more worthless.

Not to even mention how totally fucking useless Facebook ads are. You'll only be seeing fake likes and followers from developing countries that only serve to dilute your reach and make you pay even more. Facebook is not and never will be in a hurry to change how many fake accounts are doing this kind of "like farming".

Yep its all about memes and 'news' (fake news, dailymail stuff).

I found something interesting on my FB feed. I haven't liked any meme or news pages etc. So I'd get mostly what my friends liked from their liked pages.

Recently I liked an online newspaper. For the past 2 months 4 out of 7 posts are from this newspaper.

It feels like FB knows its a newspaper and its just serving me news, to get me more addicted to it...

I use fbpurity, which removes all the cruft. So basically I only see friends. Not much is happening on fb, except by a hand full of people

Actually, I've found the opposite. My feed is almost entirely social now, and it's very difficult to find news.

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