WTF has happened to Facebook?

It’s awful, I deleted it when it stopped being only
For people who were at university but had to make a basic account for one of my sons activities where they only post on there to notify about stuff !!??? I have no friends on there or activity other than this one group but still see a load of chavy crap. It’s so weird it needs deleting all together.

Lol

Yeah it's bad out there

I'm a big user of Facebook but it is pretty much unusable now and think if it doesn't impress soon will have to move away from it, I'm constantly blocking pages but there's so much stuff on there I'm not interested in

Because Zuckerberg has jumped in on the Trump bandwagon.

I downloaded all my information and deleted my account permanently over six years ago. I was a big user of it at one point too but started to find it deeply tedious and shouty. My life has been all the better for leaving it.

It is pretty much unusable now, I assume because people just aren't posting on it very much. I am hiding pages or saying not interested to so much of its shit that it is completely confused, I've had everything from busty ladies through to pro Russian pages today, they're just throwing everything at me to see what sticks. Instagram isn't like that.

Facebook is a spam site now. I ended up seeing more spam in place of the regular posts from the interest groups I followed so I ended up packing it in once I figured out I could retain FB messenger whilst deleting FB. That was a great deal in my opinion. Instagram is much better with far less Spam and more focused on my interests.

It’s a total bin fire. I want to delete it, but like pp, need to find somewhere to save my photos first.

All I get are unsolicited cat videos and classic art memes.

I don't even get Temu ads anymore for some reason.

I left over a year ago - I was using it to keep up with old school friends mostly but more and more adverts and pages being pushed with nasty agendas or dubious news and falsified photo's claiming some "history" or other - it was too much and I didn't like where it was going so I left. It's similar to what happened to Twitter when it became X - mass exodus.

Mine too. Far right, AI and extreme Islamicist videos. None of which are indicated by my ‘likes’. I’m working towards leaving. I’m on BlueSky now which is quite dull but sensible. No one ‘froths’ on there and I’ve followed a lot of academic people so I’m enjoying the content. I find it elevating rather than that sense of wallowing in the filth that you get from Facebook reels 😉

YABU for using Facebook anyway

Facebook is a cesspit now. It’s like it’s been left to go to ruin.
You might have clicked on those things once out of curiosity and then your algorithm is showing you more.

They don’t care about reports I’ve reported people for selling animals, which is not allowed on Facebook and they always say they’ve reviewed and not found a breach.

It’s not always a human that reviews the report either.

I really need to leave but I’ve got a million photos from my life that I need to save first arghhhh