AIBU to think Facebook has gone quiet lately?

This 💯 - you can pay for it to be as free.

I don’t bother anymore - mothballed my account but kept messenger.

Facebook is unusable now and has been for a while now. It used to be about interacting with people within your friend list and now it’s a never ending mass of adverts, weird AI crap and bizarre news stories that are either fake, bizarrely wrong or very old. Catching up on what people you actually know are doing is no longer worth the pain of trying to navigate the awful site.

It’s awful and virtually impossible to use. And because of that - and a growing concern around how these companies use data and photos and such - many people, like me, have either left it or no longer post and rarely bother going on.

Quite why Facebook has decided to do this I don’t understand. But people are leaving in droves.

So, to answer you question: most of your friends probably no longer bother with it, and those that do can’t find you amongst the quagmire of shite they have to sift through before coming across anyone they know.

instagram (owned by same company) hasn’t gotten quite so bad and at least has a button you can press (you have to repress every month) to turn of some of the endless suggested posts.

I find insta very much the same with regards to that my feed is full of people I don’t follow hell never even heard of and have to wade my way though to find my friends stuff.

I think people shifted away from it years ago tbh. I never personally got into it, I’m a young millennial so I used MySpace for a while as a teen, kind of skipped Facebook entirely and ended up on Instagram in my 20s. FB has a reputation for being a bit of an outdated middle aged platform. Most are on insta, TikTok, Snapchat and LinkedIn for work.

I posted something on Facebook yesterday, a friend was round for dinner and she used her Facebook to look at the post by searching for me, the post can’t be seen 🤷‍♀️

I guess it’s had its time. Feed mostly full of AI tripe, people moaning about parking and repetitive questions about what time the Asdas opens 🥴

Maybe the new book by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Careless People) is opening people’s eyes to Zuckerberg!

I still use it for a couple of groups but it’s definitely dying. I’m quite glad about it

I think a lot of people are finding that WhatsApp is now the place where they can chat, share photos etc with friends and work colleagues in groups without wading through the mountains of unsolicited shit that now clogs up Facebook and Instagram feeds. Of course, Meta will eventually ruin WhatsApp just as they’ve ruined Facebook and Instagram, so let’s enjoy it while we can.

The local group is the only useful thing amongst the slop.

I like groups (but the overuse of anonymous is hard going and also making more groups more combative)
The rest is mainly sponsored shite. I find I look at it for 2mins then realise I've seen 4 adverts in a row and close it.

It doesn't flag up personal content for days and that was the intended purpose of the site/app.
How to kill the golden goose.

was about to say exactly the same. I don’t see my friends posts on my feed anymore. It’s full of ads and posts from people I don’t know.

I used to be an avid facebook fan, I barely go on it now for that very reason and rarely post.

I only use it now to wish people happy Birthday, look at local pages for road closures, crime etc. And its good to keep updated on births and deaths but apart from that people rarely post now.

I’m currently banned due to AI thinking I posted adverts, which I didn’t. Waiting for a person review to get it reinstated. It’s been three weeks now and after the first few days I haven’t missed it.

I’ve read three books, which makes me realised how much time I spent scrolling on there. When I get it back, I won’t be using it as much or posting anything.

The anonymous posting on the group for my area has got ridiculous, it makes it harder & harder to follow threads.

I mostly just use FB now for hobby & interest groups.

Edited to add that if anon posters had to pick usernames that might be different, but it’s when there’s a thread full of posts from AnonymousPoster1234, 5678 and 9012. Like the time when MN had a load of user1234 usernames.

It’s just evolved with SM in general- people have shifted from using it to follow people they know to largely using it to view content by people they don’t ( I found myself watching lambing reels last night) or engage through groups on specific topics. People don’t just post their own updates in the way they used to, which is both good and bad, depending on how they used to post. I think anonymous positing is also killing off some of the groups a bit.

It’s still useful for local groups, but that’s about it sadly.

unfortunately it holds nearly 20 years of my history and photos and ‘diary’. I do look at memories every day. I need to work out how to get that all out.

Sponsored ads and long-winded AI slop. It's dying.

This has been done before:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5500135-to-think-facebook-has-dropped-off-a-cliff-lately

I use it for niche groups (cat health conditions, cooking groups) prefer to use the anonymous setting on those.

Otherwise it's all AI slop.

yes i’ve noticed too. I certainly post a lot less these days, when my kids were younger I used FB a lot. I prefer instragram these days (rarely post)

too may adds and Ai posts and random people and groups I’m not in as I scroll my feed before I might see one friends post.

Unless you actively go and search your friends out your likely to miss most of their posts and knowing that means I’m less likely to post as well if the people I’m posting for won’t see it what’s the point.

Mine is exactly the same. It's rare I see any posts from friends but I constantly see posts from people I've never heard of and have no interest in.
It's becoming unusable.

I went through a vigorous delete of every advert and I saw more posts from friends, but ut is dying a slow death these days. The overwhelming reliance on sponsored content is making it unusable. Twitter is worse - it just a cesspit now. I used to love it but now it’s just full of people shouting about politics, incels, and slagging off celebrities using lies and conjecture.

YANU. I don’t post anymore either, all feels a bit attention seeking now, I feel it’s outdated.