Facebook frustrations

[Art]

Facebook was created to keep up with friends. Sadly, the need to monetize has become so great that friend's posts are the fewest things you see on your feed.

Just today, I saw one post from a friend and I saw the following post about 20 times:


It's management being pressured for quarterly results to present to shareholders while forgetting the core mission. Sooner or later this will come back to bite them.

 

[Pepere]

The core mission of Facebook is money.

Keeping up with friends is only the hook.

I have absolutely no use for Facebook. Left it years and years ago. I refuse to feed the beast.

 

[Capraquaria]

I left FB about 16 months ago, for just that reason. Now I just text my friends, and I don't have to get bombarded with pointless or politically motivated garbage. It turned too much into 'most popular' posts being forced into my feed, and I missed some significant life events from distant friends because of what FB deems is important, not what I actually find important. FB's only priority is that YOU are the commodity.

 

[bizo]

I wanted to leave, but ... all my local aquarium and fishing groups are there, gear auctions, selling//buying plants, used stuff ...

Bottom line. I'm stuck with it. I already forgot it has to do anything with "friends". Most people don't even post anything anymore. It's like a hub for random hobbies.

 

[JayP]

I do truly wish there was an alternative that was what all the social apps started out trying to be, a place to connect with friends and groups, but it's always going to be about money eventually. The thing I find really annoying lately though is all the AI videos. It's gotten ridiculously out of hand to the point you can't trust anything you see anymore.

The only reason I'm still on FB is for marketplace. As soon as I'm done using that to sell off a few things, I'll be shutting down my FB account.

 

[BranchScape]

I wanted to leave, but ... all my local aquarium and fishing groups are there, gear auctions, selling//buying plants, used stuff ...

Bottom line. I'm stuck with it. I already forgot it has to do anything with "friends". Most people don't even post anything anymore. It's like a hub for random hobbies.

Facebook is at best a marketplace for groups and random things. Has nothing to do with friends and personal life updates now.

 

[Minorhero]

I spend a LOT of time each day on Facebook and frankly like it quite a bit. It's not about my friends/family updates though. I am a member of over 100 groups in a plethora of hobbies. Facebook is amazing at providing a single point to access all of those different hobbies. In that, its good. For catching up with people... not so much. Especially since a lot of folks (myself included) have made the conscious decision not to post personal details on social media.

 

[Pepere]

Personally I think the demise of Facebook has already begun…

Certainly recent court cases are going to have significant effect, but the Enpoopification of the whole user experience is probably going to be even more of a factor where the value proposition to the end user degrades to the point they cease using it and the majority of traffic becomes bot traffic, and advertisers wake up to the fact of what little value spending money on the site provides…

 

[SmartAlec13]

Only reason I am still on it is it's an easy way to show friends & family my tank and other stuff I am up to, versus reaching out to each one lol. Otherwise I would have ditched it a while ago.