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If this is a true story, you would have taken the 20 seconds to look at the post and click that you want to see either less post or see no post from the person. But it is also possible you just wanted to complain about people complaining about Trump.

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That's a bad fix. There are lots of people I like interacting with, on a normal, non-political basis, that I can't get along with politically. In normal social situations, we get along fine, because it's not normal to constantly talk about divisive political issues. But on Facebook, it's become (for many people) a norm to post endless political memes.

If I didn't want to hear anything about these people's lives, I wouldn't have friended them in the first place. I don't want to have to block all of their posts just so that I don't have to deal with their obnoxiously-expressed views.

Ultimately, I think the norm of people posting political things on Facebook will go away--or at least, the only people being obnoxiously political on Facebook will be the same people who are obnoxiously political in real life. In the mean time, it's pretty annoying.

This is a bullshit thing I always hear from pro-FB people. I tried doing that and the result was that my feed is incredibly sparse because it turns out that the most annoying people are the ones that post often, and regular people rarely post. So now, every time I log in, 85% of the content is something I've seen more than 3 times already. Your choice is either crappy content, or redundant content.

I'm in the same boat as you, but this just means you should check Facebook less. Obviously not good for Facebook, but it seems great for us.

My solution has been to unfollow everyone. I still get event notifications, I can still use messenger, but I don’t see ads (the home screen thinks I’m a new user), and it’s one less endless feed to be addicted to. I check it every couple of days, and spend 0 time on site.

Less work than it sounds like. And as you say, bad for them, good for us.

That's the greatest thing about twitter: You never run out of fresh content.

That's the greatest thing about farms: You never run out of fresh manure.

The problem with that is I've found that telling FB I want to see less of a post often translates into not seeing anything from that person.

It's not a left / right... trump / anything else item like you seem to be making (the original person gave an example, you seem to be taking his example personally).

The request seems pretty simple - give people a way to categorize the content they post and then give the friends a way to filter what comes into their daily stream of stuff by those categories.

You missed a possibility: I wanted to complain about seeing things in Facebook that I do not want to see nor add any value to my life, which is exactly what I wrote in my post. It also happens to be the accurate selection of my intent.

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