WTF has happened to Facebook?

Mine seems OK.
I'm active on a few groups (village, clubs), I mostly see my Friend's feeds and just click away any stuff I don't want (which is mainly dull ads). I don't see reels.

It's certainly not more annoying that MN!

All I get are funny cat videos. Cute pet crows and rats. Bears on trampolines ... Some ballroom dancers, loads of comedians, occasionally women choosing dresses and lately some people messing with scammers. Nothing remotely unpleasant and mostly quite entertaining.

Going the same way as Twitter ( refuse to call it the other idiotic name). Closed my account on Twitter a while back as the lies, the racism and the general trash posts were so depressing. An on Bluesky now and have just been on the book section and it was lovely! No coincidence that the men who own Facebook and Twitter are huge Trump fans...

I don't get anything even vaguely like that - and I'm on it multiple times a day due to being in a number of hobby related groups.

The algorithm shows you what it thinks you want to see. There is something in your viewing history, either on FB or more widely on the web, which causes it to show you this content.

I do get a ridiculous amount of cute videos of cats and dogs interacting, and, yesterday, Bra adverts. It makes perfect sense for FB to show me those, but I can curate my feed by rejecting them - NOT just closing them down, but going through the process of clicking the three dots and saying either why I don't like the ad or the I don't want to see that content.

I spent time doing that last night while watching TV - and it has meant all the Bra ads have gone today.

Are your devices on family sharing mode? I’ve noticed things popping up on my FB that DH has generally looked at on YouTube.

Unfortunately there’s a lot of hate speech these days too (I’m not in the UK). It’s like people have forgotten how to hold a conversation or express their point of view without resorting to abuse and belittling.

Agree OP. I’ve reported posts before which clearly breach their own guidelines and only ever had one removed. The bots clearly aren’t up to scratch.

The benefit of FB is you don't need to be part of or invited to join a group. Any individuals can post and be followed by, or follow, any other individual.

It was a nice easy casual way to keep up to date with people from different parts of your life.

Nope. I only look on friends feed and some specific groups but I don’t get anything I wouldn’t potentially be interested in suggested to me. It’s an algorithm. To get that shit you must be encouraging it somehow.

I don't get political stuff but my feed is just so of ads it's not worth time any longer

Facebook has been in decline a lot longer than November 24.

Like others, I have years of photos saved on there, so am loathe to delete it. I still have some interaction with actual people I know, but very little. I'm in some really helpful groups on there as well which I wouldn't want to lose access to. All the sponsored and suggested nonsense is really annoying though. I can only assume that very few people are using it compared to is heyday so it has to push all this crap.

I did delete X at the start of the year though and feel liberated!

Look up 'enshittification'. This stuffing up of online social media/retail/any commercial site is so common it has a name.

Basically it's good for the consumer, then good for the seller, then greed screws it up & it becomes just sh*t and we move on.

I only use FB for travel planning groups and DD's dance school who still use it to announce stuff. I don't even see people posts anymore!

I'm guessing for me it could be because FB is tailoring what I see from what I look at. So currently gym stuff, houses, food and cars.

I've recently made a much more conscious effort to not allow cookies and other analytical tracking (as far as possible, it's not easy!) so I suspect that won't be helping, hence why they are pissing into the wind as to what to show me.

I get loads of videos about horses, dogs, spot squeezing, dashcam stuff and black women having their hair done… I’m not black so no idea how their algorithms have decided I might find them useful 🤣 I’ve never got anything racist or violent. Reels are indeed horribly addictive!!

I mostly use Facebook for hobby stuff now. Very few of my friends use it nowerdays. I’d probably delete it if I didn’t use it for booking on events every weekend. I only really post photos on Instagram and then only hobby stuff.

It's interesting that there's such a variation. I don't get anything nasty. I heard it works off what your friends look at so for those getting right wing stuff, might be worth a sneaky friend cull!!

I have all the privacy settings as tight as poss and I don't post anything at all. I use it on the browser, I don't have the app, don't know if that makes a difference?

I'd rather not use it but it's the best place to find local family events and a lot of small businesses only have a FB page, not an actual website.

It was so full of ads and irrelevant stuff that I just got fed up and deleted it. Also whenever anything is reported Facebook never seems to have any issues.

I dont recognise a lot of the descriptions either, I get local groups I'm in and posts from friends.

No AI or anything political, the algorithm suggests things it can't possibly think I'm interested in but I just cancel them and they go away

Instagram on the other hand suggests some very gross reels that from the thumb nails I'm scared to click on

I get mainly adverts for books and cat videos. I hardly ever post anything myself and most of my friends are the same. I have not had anything offensive yet.

Same here.

I'm guessing for me it could be because FB is tailoring what I see from what I look at. So currently gym stuff, houses, food and cars.

I'm glad it's not just me. All I get are endless adverts, despite blocking them all, more pop up. I rarely see any posts from friends or family just more bloody adverts! Wondering if its worth deleting it to be honest.

I seemed to get nothing but AI pics of the royal family (mainly the Wales parents and kids) but they seem to have died out.

Then it was AI pictures of triplets with loads of fingers as kids and as 90 year olds.

Now it’s similar but with married couples 70 years apart. Including a very random one of Angela Lansbury and her husband (who died in 2002) celebrating 70 years of marriage

All very odd 😬

I don't have a problem 🤞 I don't post much, very rarely. I don't know if that makes a difference

I think WhatsApp private message group is better - if you create various groups with your relatives and share your stories and photos and info on that it works and I find I don’t miss FB.

Only stuff of the kind I go looking for anyway - local family events, mountain warehouse, camping…

Maybe it’s a settings issue.

I think you should be more worried if you post your photos on there, after all they own your photos when they are on there, and Facebook is a cesspit, your photos could be used for anything.