Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes 'throwback to OG Facebook'
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I don't understand where your comment comes from, to be honest. I use Facebook a decent amount, and every single post in my feed comes from a page that I follow, a group that I'm in, or a friend.
I think the issue is when your friend Bob shares something from a page that you don't follow. People seem to blame Facebook for showing you irrelevant content, rather than blaming their friend Bob for sharing it. People share things on Facebook with the intent for you to see it. If you don't like it, then block the page Bob shared from. If Bob does a lot of sharing, then either unfriend him entirely, or at least unfollow so his crap stops showing up in your feed.
My feed consists 4 types of posts:
1. Friend posting their own content
2. Posts from followed pages
3. Posts from groups I'm a member of
4. Content that my friends share from pages/groups I don't follow
I feel like people are seeing #4 and blaming Facebook for showing them irrelevant content. Like, if my friend Bob shares a post from a page dedicated to memes centered around the TV show "Lost", then it is entirely the fault of Bob that it's appearing on my feed even though I don't watch Lost. Facebook should take zero blame. Yet, I feel like people do blame Facebook for it.
I don't see content from pages I don't follow unless a friend has shared it specifically.
I don't know where the complaints about feeds being full of brainrot and low-quality content comes from. Your feed is what you make it.
I wish I knew what I was doing differently so I could help you.
There's more to it than that. I live in the US, and grew up in Australia. My friends are not sharing articles on flights in Africa (not sponsored), nor discussions on HVAC and low voltage wiring (also not sponsored), and beyond.
There's literally a fifth category, "Suggested Posts".
I blame Facebook for that, not my friends.
It was all over when they ended the default reverse chrono feed. It will never be good again. I can never be good again. The only good use cases today are mostly around Messenger because your contacts list is all that's useful at Facebook any more.
I do not experience this in my feed unless it is an activity from a friend, in which case, I would expect it in my feed.
https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
Why should anyone "trust" him? He doesn't want that trust.