To miss the Facebook of 2009/2010?

[SeptemberRoundabout]

This. Facebook isn’t held in the same sort of ‘important’ regard as it was in 2009/10 is it?

it’s also gone much more boring imo

It was much more fun back then, wasn’t it? I loved connecting with old friends from school and university, and it was around the time when everyone was getting married and having babies so my feed was full of lovely photos of special life events. I hate that I have to apply a filter now if I actually want to find posts by friends, which are otherwise buried in an avalanche of random slop that the algorithm thinks I might be interested in. I’d delete my account, but we live overseas and it’s still my best way of sharing stuff with older relatives who I know won’t use other platforms.

Most people I speak to now say that would delete their account 'but'.
I see very purity point posting on it now as nobody can see what friends write unless they're specifically looking because of all the commercial rubbish.
I've just dropped down my use because it's recently been so divisive and hateful.
I used to love it when it was a happy, fluffy place to share with friends.

Yes I agree. Everyone would write down what they were thinking and start a chat. And there were loads of pics too. Now it’s mostly ads.
I’ve cut mine down to extended family and a few friends. I share a few photos and I’m on a few groups but that’s about it.

I agree. Old Facebook was great. Like a lot of people, after school and uni my friends scattered to the four winds. I and others moved abroad for a while. It was great to see what people were up to. Now it’s all dull reels and adverts. None of my friends post anymore. But it is useful for community groups so I still look at it.

I just see a load of crap from groups I don’t belong to but Facebook thinks I might like, and adverts, some of which are scams. I rarely use it now.

I found it all quite toxic. I had 300 “friends” at one point. Old work colleagues, old school friends, local people I knew.

One day I figured out that the majorly were only there to be nosy. None of them would have pissed on me if I was in fire.

I now have 10 Facebook friends. These are people I genuinely want to stay in touch with.

Agreed, too many ads now so peoples updates etc are far harder to see. Rubbish.

Facebook has changed massively and most people put everything on private so you can’t see a lot. Back in the day people put their whole lives photos etc on there. I think people are afraid to put too much out there anymore. I’m not on there anymore. I do think it’s more Instagram and TIkTok these days especially the younger generation.

Yeah it’s become something I only keep to look at business pages and know what’s going on locally, quite boring really

Agreed. I deactivated my account as rarely saw my friends feeds unless I specifically searched for them!
So many crappy ads, reels & random group posts fb thinks i want to see. I miss the days it actually used to be decent.

The concept of Facebook is really good. Facebook of 2007 when I joined was great, you actually chatted to friends (we came over from MySpace), I read back some of my memories and it feels like a different time. It was all very much quite light hearted, I was in a group called "i always sleep on the cold side of the pillow" or something like that.

I hate Facebook now, too many adverts, too many groups pedalling their racist views. I do think Covid changed it, too many people started lecturing others, telling people what they should do, posting photos of people 'flouting lockdown rules'. I said something negative about Bravissimo on their group a couple of years ago and was basically run off their page by one of their more obsessive fans.

It feels like we're no longer connected like we used to be. It got too big and people have got more vile.

It was great back then. It's crap now, noone posts anymore! I've actually deactivated my account to stop.me watching all the reels.

Well, it was finite back then so I guess I miss not doomscrolling.

Yes I resent how it's all about watching adverts or reels. It still sucks me in from time to time to look at friends' posts but there is so much dross.

Yanbu. It was great when it was in chronological order. Now it's a mess. I think I've posted twice in the last year.

I only rely on it for council, Spotted "insert town here" shenanigans and parkrun updates.

This is what I don’t understand about Meta.

they’ve ruined FB and Insta by prioritising other people’s stuff rather than the people I’m connected with. My feed on both is literally packed full of people I don’t follow/don’t know. Yet the people I’ve chosen to follow and want to see gets hidden.

why?

if they want to sell adverts they need to keep us on their as long as possible. But prioritising irrelevant shite is the first way to get people to go away

Same here - ads, promoted content which is AI generated clickbait type stuff. No one I know seems to actually be sharing any content.

The latest trick to try and get people to engage, is something saying, “X highlighted a post for you to look at” - always something from years ago. I know about this as an old friend asked why I’d highlighted something for them, which of course… I hadnt. A bit duplicitous really.

Are the people you know actually posting?

I think all the other stuff is filler, as people aren’t posting enough to fill a feed.

Its unbelievably shit now, its full of ads and influencer create content that I'm not interested in.

What was great about it was the things posted by people you actually know. Like keeping in touch with old school and uni mates, former colleagues. Sharing photos from parties and celebrations. Now no one posts anything or if they do its stories and reels designed to track "engagement" to try and make money for someone somewhere.

I use FB for a couple of special interest groups plus the local page which is useful for road closures, events and suchlike. The admins are very fierce, no racism or other unpleasantness is allowed.

I tend to go to the search thingy at the top then straight to those pages, I don't see all the dross.

They get paid millions to promote all that stuff. TikTok will go the same way eventually.

I definitely think FB was better in its earlier days.

No one posts ! Exactly what I found !

Exactly !! We don’t see friends’ posts now just random slop !! So boring and samey!!

What I loved in 2009/2010 was co you could also see specifically what statuses and pages people liked:

John Smith likes this etc etc or

John Smith and David Brown are now friends etc etc - you don’t see that at all now just a loads of rubbish !

That’s the thing - the only way to see what friends write is if you’re specifically looking