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Facebook… what happened?
I run the social media accounts for an outdoors store, I can’t believe how nearly unusable Facebook has become in the past few months. It seems everyone is talking about FB feed being overrun with fake AI images and clickbait, to me the major concern is all the pages that are sharing this trash are not even pages I follow. Now my feed on both my private and work is mostly from accounts I do not follow. The worst part isn’t the fact that these pages exist, it’s the fact that Facebook isn’t doing anything to fix this problem and is letting it happen. By allowing their site to become like this, they are only hurting themselves and everyone I’ve talked to has unanimously began to ditch Facebook.
What was once a fun website to keep in contact with friends and share your life has become a cluttered mess. What made Facebook great was it was the most organized looking of all the social media platforms. Now every time I go on now, I just feel sad and only use it for work.
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Your experience is directly correlated with how you use the platform. You’re using the platform as a marketer, so you’ll experience it as one. Unless you’re interacting with users and content organically as a regular user would, you won’t experience the same thing a regular user would. I follow and engage with people, businesses, organizations and pages I actually like, for example, and thus my feed is mostly that. But if you’re just there to broadcast, Facebook will fill your feed with whatever it thinks might be relevant.
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It’s become impossible to use. 7-10 years ago it was an amazing tool for everyone, including small businesses. Now its impossible to follow.
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u/CharlesIntheWoods, What demographic are your trying to reach? T
his is something that many market analysts have predicted is going to happen. For the next few years, social media is going to get more and more degraded thanks to AI images and marketing.
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i think facebook team is totally clueless about how they actually want to present facebook as to its users. for example whether it is a social media platform, news platform etc.
i have been using facebook for business from last 10 years. and this is what i have concluded so far. they are totally clueless.
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My entire feed is suggested pages and groups. Maybe 10% of what I see now is from friends and pages I follow.
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I stopped using FB over ten years ago, it’s been like this for a while.
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Advertising and adbots have ruined everything not just at FB and various other social media as well. All money comes from advertising companies. Relentless in your face advertising is number one! To even argue against it is blasphemy.
You can tell by all the pages asking or outright demanding that you whitelist, or turn off your adblocker. Yes in side your very own private home on a network you paid for, with internet bandwidth you paid for. Because they demand it. And now they’re doing it with Streaming networks too.
I want OFF his advertising infested planet.
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It’s overrun with bots and ads
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They fired or moved 90% of the people working on Facebook. The ones left were moved to manage threads ans Instagram.
They have mass demonetised legit creators on the platform.
Even their brand ambassadors stonemountain & xacception are often shitting on facebook and pushing youtube
But the main reason you are sing a surge in AI fake images is, they have monetised images. They are paying people based on likes and comments on these images.Since its election season around the world they really ease up on their algorithm stopping controversial, fake scammy stuff.
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Facebook was a poor investment 10 years ago, today it’s like throwing your money into an endless pit.
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Social media? I’ve stop FB, Insta, X.. etc..
LONG LIVE REDDIT !!!!
FB was fun the start, finding long lost friends through mutuals. Then it turn into, check out my new branded purchase, then hey, my holiday at the Swiss Alps. Then food food food, chocolate cake.
Finally the killer, forward, forward repost repost ads ads. Waste of time. Swiping right mostly ads.Where are the text? As people gets lazier to type.
Reddit on the other hand has moderators, no ads, reading people’s thoughts and opinions.
#reddit4eva #rant #m0ve0n #fml #kthxbai
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I just had to wade through over 50 ads and idiotic suggested pages before seeing a single post from someone I follow.
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I could explain it easy to people back in 2019 but now with the godawful meta business suite shit have made it unable to understand unless you’re computer/Internet literate
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I have noticed this too. I almost don’t feel like going on Facebook anymore. I’m constantly clicking on the “X” to hide all those pages that I don’t want to see anymore. This works for awhile but then they’re back again either way with more.
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