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How Facebook is losing it's essence?

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"The very essence of Facebook was to recreate the joys of college life in the virtual space."

Maybe back when it first started. It hasn't been the 'essence of Facebook' for a long time now.

They've evolving, as they need to if they want to stay in the lead.

Yes, but getting all celebrity junk into the timeline would sort of kill all the fun. It may just go the myspace way.

a. Why not just unsubscribe from it if it bothers you so much? b. Facebook is not afraid to change stuff that isn't working, so I have confidence that they'll tweak that feature as the usage patterns dictate

You can unsubscribe from the celebrity news and stuff but your friends will end up sharing as they would have subscribed to the celebrity junk. You can't do much about that.

Get new friends, or block the ones who do that.

This. Don't follow/friend/circle people you don't want to keep in touch with or hear updates on. It's that simple.

You can also partially unsubscribe from friends that share celebrity news. Moving them into the "Acquaintances" list means you'll only get their more "important" updates.

Alternatively, you can change their subscription level on their profile page for the same effect. You might want to do that if you share status updates or set privacy for your personal information like phone number and address to "Friends except Acquaintances" and this friend isn't actually an acquaintance and should get that stuff.

Unfortunately, if you want to both "see everything" and "avoid celebrity news", there isn't a solution to that at the moment.

Well, Facebook corp enroached on my privacy, and apps spammed my feed with useless crud. People posted high noise, low signal updates.

So I left.

A lot of people will gradually leave because of such junk.

Totally beside the point, but "How Facebook is losing its essence" is a statement. You've analyzed the situation and you're going to tell me what's happening. Following that statement with a question mark just tells me that you're frightened of sharing your opinion. Don't make a bold statement if you're just going to wimp out and make it a question.

Point taken. The title of the post has been updated.

Possible duplicate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016955

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