Can someone please tell me how I stop getting so much utter crap on my FB feed please?

[Greciantime]

I’m not a big FB user but like to use it to see pics from family who live a distance away etc. However, the feed is increasingly full of total shit from groups I have no interest in, or seem to consist of highly dubious ‘jokey’ memes etc. I don’t click on the comments or anything but obviously I can see the post.

i keep clicking on the show less of this option but it makes no difference. Is this just the way it is now (in which case i’ll
delete the whole thing!)

thanks for any advice.

I think that is pretty much the way Facebook is, but possibly the reason you are getting loads of this stuff is that none of your friends are particularly active posters, so if you check on FB daily, for example, there won't be many new posts. Facebook wants to keep you on there for as long as possible (to see ads etc) so if your feed is basically empty, they will fill it up with lowest-common-denominator crap.

It might be counterintuitive, but if you like/follow a few accounts that post regularly, or join a few groups that post content you don't object to (depending on your interests - wildlife or art or local history groups? A genre of literature? Something crafty or sporty? National charities keep their Facebook feeds fairly well fed with posts) your feed might fill up with those rather than the offensive crap. It will still mean you have to scroll through other stuff before you see things you really want to see, but at least it won't be objectionable crap.

This is roughly what I have been doing and it seems to work. I'm getting lots more birds, books and travel pics I don't mind glancing at as I scroll through, and fewer stupid quizzes. I also find it helps to unfollow (but stay friends with) the kind of distant relative who answers all the inane quiz questions and reposts 'inspirational' or 'funny' posts.

I agree with the PP that it's about telling FB what you're interested in. I like going to fairly obscure events that don't necessarily have a marketing budget and use FB to reach people. Once I started looking at info online for these, I got other ones in my feed, some of which were of interest. Also, mute particular ads and posts you don't like, as that keeps it out of your feed for 30 days.

I gave up and left.

It was full of “suggested” groups and posts that I had less than zero interest in.

I spent some time trying to “teach” it what I liked but paid ad revenue is to lucrative to only show what you’re actually interested in.

So I left Facebook.

If you just want to see posts from specific people, you'd be better off just looking at their pages once in a while than trying to rely on the feed.

Thanks everyone, that’s really helpful. I do follow some local interest groups so will try increasing that and also have a good clear out of my FB ‘friends’!

If you look at it on a mobile app and pick feeds, then the friends tab you can then actually see posts by real people who your are friends with. Make sure you are following the people you want to see posts from.

However, I don't think a lot of people bother with FB any more, because it's 99% shite and they've lost patience with trying to find things posted by people they know among all the crap and then they stop looking and stop posting.

I’m contemplating just leaving FB too. It insists every so often on showing me badly writing werewolf fanfic, introspective “poetry”, crochet and gardening pages 🙈. I do not want to see any of those things, if they really must show me crap instead of my actual friends I want to see dogs and would accept the odd Game of Thrones meme thank you 😂.

It's a bit of an arse to get to but if you go onto FB, then onto your own page, scroll down a bit and select Feeds, you can tune click on "friends" and it will just show you recent posts from your friends. You can also select "groups" or "pages" from there too. Cuts out most of the ads / suggested content.

I still have fb, but inky because I like having a laugh at the bonkers local area groups. The rest is advertising / shite / or a couple of people who still insist on posting 20 pics a day of nothing. No one I know actually uses it for anything else anymore. We use WhatsApp for photo sharing