Facebook used to be a site where your friends wrote posts or added pictures, you liked each other's posts, it was nice, you could keep in touch and maybe also keep up to date with a few brands or pages you liked.
Now it feels like things directly to do with my friends are about 5% of what's on there and it's 95% dross I haven't asked for. I have to be shown everything any of my friends have liked, whether it's of interest to me or not. Adverts for dodgy services like holiday food poisoning claims every three posts. I made the mistake of following the pages of a few news outlets like C4 News and my word, the bigotry of the comments is something else. The Grenfell fire was started by immigrants to get leave to remain; why are the victims still complaining; find your own home if you're so unhappy; they're scroungers trying to keep the fire in the news to get more compensation - just some of the comments I've just read on an article about a family of 5 still living in a hotel room, and these aren't buried under a ton of higher-rated reasonable comments, these are the top-rated comments!
Sometimes I think I'm done with it but somewhere amongst all the dross I'll see that an old friend has got engaged, or a photo of their new baby, and that's why I'll stay.
AIBU to think the site has gone in the complete wrong direction? There's nothing personal about it anymore and no way for the user to shape or control what they see. I understand it's all now about pandering to the big pages that pay for ad space, and getting their posts in front of as many users as possible, but if it just leads to users gettimg exasperated and quitting, is it worth it?