WTF has happened to Facebook?

You can influence your facebook video feed. Just regularly do searches within facebook for keywords related to things you do want to see, and within the search results click "reels" and watch a few videos. You get more of the same for the videos you watch for longest and which you click on. My facebook video feed is full of kittens and bunnies, mother cats who have adopted chicks as kittens and mother hens who have adopted kittens as chicks, people who are teaching their rats, hamsters and guineapigs to do obstacle courses, people doing interesting wood-turning and pottery projects, lesbian comedians, and occasional gripes/complaints or demonstrations from people with disabilities about the inadequacy of provision of reasonable adjustments for their additinal needs in various public places. If you are getting unpleasant stuff stop looking at it and search for something nicer.

I left FB years ago, and I’m so glad I did. Looks like it’s gone right down the pan. I’d get off of it if I were you

Our local community FB pages are very useful, as are the autism support groups I’m on. I just ignore everything else.

This boomer thinks it is dated and boring. I have given up Twitter too as I find it to be disturbingly right wing which apparently is another primary boomer characteristic

I left back in 2010, but rejoined under a different name purely to find support groups for SEN. I was shocked how shit it was ergonomically, really hard to use and just loads of crap I'm not even interested in. No far right shit yet, but I haven't friended anyone, just joined some groups. It was not the facebook I knew (and still hated) back in 2010.

Bring back MySpace! That was just a page with some tunes on pretty much.

I only use it for medical support groups, no friends. I don’t get shown anything or any advertising. The groups are useful

I'm not a boomer either, silly remark.

Massive decline in content though. I do think it was a great novelty a decade or so ago, it's just tired now although I find it useful for certain interest groups I'm in.

I follow a lot of historical groups. I block anything I'm not interested in. I've done a lot of blocking lately 😂

Also follow groups for my crafting hobby

Edited I forgot the hobby 😂

I get cake decorating videos (I can't bake for shit) and people endlessly discussing Buffy the vampire slayer (which I have never watched).

Boomers are all over 60. Pretty sure they don’t make up the whole 3 billion active users

The worst I get are AI animal rescue videos which are always quite funny to watch

If you paid you'd probably get less crap, it's cos it's free.
Local Facebook groups are saturated with what's on and people giving stuff away or whose letting off fireworks, as if they are going to answer?

Only boomers use Facebook now

& Mns it seems!

Good, it's not just me then. I've noticed the past couple of months more and more AI crap and really nasty videos coming up on my feed. I've not interacted with anything that indicates I'm interested in that.

I follow local pages for events and fan pages for tv and films for the memes.

Something came up on my feed just the other day, someone in a boat filming a seal swimming round their boat, with literally the bottom half of its body missing after being attacked by a shark. Who the fuck wants to see that? Not me.

Not this boomer

Only boomers use Facebook now

"What has significantly declined is the number of teens on the platform, and this is kind of remarkable. In 2014 and 2015, 71% of teenagers were using Facebook. Now it’s less than half of that at 32%."

That chimes with my experience

Never seen anything like that

Ridiculous comment, of course they do.

It was a question? I don't use it anymore nor do my friends & the youngsters I know don't either.

I never post on it. I stay on it to find out what is happening in my area.

Luckily, I've not had anything nasty or upsetting (so far?).

I get loads of AI pictures of houses, (presumably) fake history stories and so many pretend David Attenborough stuff. I also keep getting stories from "The Dull Men's Club". TBF I'm not part of the group but I do read the things that come up on my feed because they are often quite amusing.

Oh and bloody 5min craft. That's my own fault because I get suckered in. "100 things to do with a hot glue gun you say? Count me in!". 1hr later and several "crafts" that are awful at best or fetish material and still, the next day "oh. What's she doing in that screen shot of a peice of foam and a turnip?... I'll have a quick look...

I absolutely hate it. I get lots of random AI stuff. Fucking celebrities all the time. And lots of misogynistic content about their appearance and how old they look. I don't watch TV, I have no interest in celebrities and never have. Also horrible brain dead jokes that probably wouldn't even impress a 15 year old boy. The whole thing is grim.

I'd LOVE to know:

1. The easiest way to download my photos from FB onto a storage platform (which one?)

1. If you have successfully turned off ads etc how did you do it? Whenever I go to the privacy settings it just some awful labyrinthine minefield that sends me round in loops.

It's been going downhill for longer than that.

Use your friends feed.

I’m not getting much nasty stuff but I am getting 90% celebrity posts, either gossipy stuff about current slebs or nostalgia photos of old stars. I keep saying I’m not interested. I don’t follow slebs so no idea why the algorithm thinks I want to see all this crap. I have to
actively look for pages I’ve liked about things and people I’m interested in. Just about to give up with it but it has been useful for hobbies and local autism support groups.

Ridiculous comment, of course they do.

Mine doesn't have anything nasty on thankfully but boy do I get a lot of random but harmless stuff!