I still check facebook somehow (I hate it).
Scrolling the timeline, I noticed that it’s 90% ads or promoted posts. This is next level…
Is this only me? Or has FB been like this these days? (PLEASE don’t spam “quit FB already” messages.)
I still check it very occasionally because my family and a few friends are on there. I don’t know how they stand it; it’s been 95+% ads for at least a year now.
I only ever check FB to see whether my dad has messaged me, and literally 99% of my timeline is softcore porn ads. TF happened?
FYI, you can go directly to messenger.com and avoid seeing the rest of the site entirely. You can also deactivate your Facebook account and leave Messenger (mostly) functional.
Hey, that’s handy - thanks! I did have my timeline deleted for a little while, but I reactivated it recently because I needed a couple of extra friend-management features that I couldn’t quite get working purely through Messenger. Still, a dedicated Messenger site is super helpful.
I still use FB for Buy Nothing and other local groups. The best way to avoid the insane ads is to go to Menu > Feeds then select exactly what you want to see. There’s still ads but it’s a fraction of the default main page.
I didn’t have a Facebook account before it was cool to not have a Facebook account.
I was “forced” to make an account by my mom at some point, so I did. I set the profile picture to something completely random and promptly logged out. The only time I’ve logged in since then was to accept my wife’s friend request (or whatever they call them) after we’d been married for over a year, since apparently her friends were confused why we weren’t labelled as “in a relationship” or whatever.
Look, we’re married. I don’t need Facebook to tell you that. >_>
I’m not on FB, but I have recently signed up for Instagram, similarly Meta-owned (due to the recurring problem that a lot of people in my life use it, and networking is distressingly essential these days), and just… why is so much of it ads and promos?
I can’t understand why people still use FB with that mess of ads and promos. It operates like a scammer at this point: they actively select people who interact with low quality information.
I genuinely don’t get it either. I have an account on FB for the exceedingly rare occasions when I need to contact someone who only has an FB account. I can’t imagine being on there willingly.
I did the same a while ago. I signed up for Instagram because a few friends were on it, but never use it. I signed in a few weeks ago to catch up, and it showed me three or four posts, said that I was caught up, and then just showed me ads and sponsored posts.
I am actually noting that on my desktop, I’m not getting any ads or sponsored posts, just stuff from those I follow, and other people with similar content (so many frogs and sighthounds). I doubt it’s because Instagram doesn’t force ads on the desktop site. My adblocker is just doing a very, very good job.
