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Facebook… what happened?
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Yeah, Facebook’s really gone downhill lately, huh? The flood of AI images and clickbait from random pages you don’t even follow is frustrating. It used to be a place to connect and share, but now it just feels cluttered and sad. I find myself using it mostly for work these days.
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I think I can provide another point of view. I’m from Europe and few months ago Meta has implemented paid, ad-free version of Facebook here. If I don’t want to see ads in my newsfeed and also if I want my activity to not be tracked by FB (more privacy etc.), I need to pay monthly subscription. Of course I can still use free version but it means having my newsfeed “flooded” with commercials, featured pages, groups etc. and almost zero visible posts of my friends, which makes FB unusable. Officially this is Meta’s reaction for recent European Union’s regulations, but to think of it… maybe it’s Meta’s way of force users into paid subscriptions. And Europe is their testing ground.
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Even worse in Canada, unable to post news anymore. I agree, I don’t use Facebook anymore. Plus, I hate that I now have an ad after second or third post that obligated me to watch the ad for 5 seconds… it does make me shut down the app most of the time
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Hardly use face book. I have to scroll past 6 adds, click bait to get a friend post, then another stack of adds etc. A lot of my friends don’t bother with it now.
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I don’t know but it’s dire. Almost like they want to kill their own brand.
My biggest pet hate are the suggested posts/pages that you can no longer turn off.
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I feel your pain! My understanding since acquiring Instagram there is more of a heavy focus there. And, it shows in my Instagram feed as well.
They are currently in the process of ruining insta as well.
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its infuriating. they figure out EXACTLY the maximum number of adds they can cram down the average users feed before they just close it to get the most amount of ad revenue possible. even if they lose users, as long as the remaining is tolerant of the adds, they keep em. the atrocious AI shit is horrendous, and god forbid you laugh react one of the pictures with a “woman” who is like I AM FROM NEED HUSBAND USA #BESTPICTURE #SCARLET JOHANSON because then that shit is stuck on your feed for another 6 weeks. like others have complained, whats even the point of joining a group if 7 of every 10 posts is “suggested” or “sponsored”, which is just ads that are hard imbedded into the feed so you cant use adblock on them. there was a period of time where i was getting literal porn (i mean technically “drawn” but still sexually explicit) from the SAME FUCKING PAGES despite constantly closing them out.
what really gets me is the obvious “MADE WITH AMS FRMS OWN TWO HADS AMEN” posts with like the generic as fuck replies, honestly makes me subscribe to that dead internet shit. i refuse to believe that many people are that stupid. saw one great one once of this shit that was like some picture from some small town in norway or whatever, and the page was claiming they took the picture themself and was even arguing with people who called it fake (it was obviously fake) and then this dude was like “im from that town, thats not what our buildings look like” lol.
currently theres been a trend of these sponsored posts that are blatant phishing scams and when you report them, FB’s bots that are there in place of actual help teams are like “hrmmm this doesnt go against our policies” like how the fuck do virus links get approved? part of me thinks they just switch the link after they pay for the adspace but like now im starting to think FB doesnt even check their paid ads, just accepts the money and is like “welp sucks to suck”. im honestly not even gonna be surprised when theres ads to fucking like child porn telegram groups out there on it like when gold farmers bought adspace on the WoW forums front page.
/rant
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The images load up whenever they feel like it, that was my main concern
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Unfortunately Facebook has fallen just like my space a little longer life span. Bullying lies womanizing manizing (made up word) lurking on tweens and teens like my ex. Sad sick world.
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About Facebook, it seems like things have been all over the place lately. They’ve been rolling out many changes that some people aren’t thrilled about. From updates to the algorithm to new privacy policies, it feels like Facebook is constantly evolving. For many, it’s been a bit confusing to keep up with.I’ve been looking into some alternatives and came across foxbots.net , which might offer a different experience if you’re interested. It’s always good to explore new options, especially if you’re unhappy with how things are going.
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