Facebook is totally worthless now that they force content on you and fill 99% of your feed with it. But I still go there sometimes to view “memories” from earlier times when the site was a vibrant space, full of discussions with friends and family.
Today I decided to browse the feed a little bit, hoping to see some updates from friends. Of course that is impossible now, and instead my feed is full of pictures of celebrities I don’t care about from 20 years ago, MMA crap, and pictures of Miley Cyrus. But one of those pictures was kind of interesting and I clicked it to see if there’s any discussion on these posts like there is here or on Reddit. Nope! There was thousands of comments all saying the exact same thing. Everyone was commenting “legend!” or “absolute legend!”.
What drives people to be the 4432nd person to reply with the same word as everyone else? I checked another random post and it was more of the same type of comments. I just flat-out don’t get that platform anymore. It used to be really useful for keeping in touch with people, and sometimes even really enjoyable. Now it’s pure garbage. I don’t understand why they have made the changes they’ve made and more importantly, I don’t understand why people comment the same things over and over.
Facebook is and has been trash for the better part of a decade.
One of the best things I’ve ever done is delete my Facebook account.
It sounds like now it can no longer even be used as an excuse to “follow old friends.” Which was always bullshit to begin with, as most people don’t connect with their friends lists after adding. Fuck Facebook. Time to wake up and delete that shit.
I only have people I know in real life in my friends list. I managed to connect with people I hadn’t seen in ten years when Facebook came out. We all spent a lot of time connecting with each other, but like you said, that was a long time ago. The site engagement dropped off dramatically in 2016, I think because people realized how it was being used to manipulate them, and then dropped off further in 2021 after covid. This forced content crap finally killed what was left of it. There are definitely still people in my friends list who regularly post, but I would never know it without going directly to their pages since the posts don’t show up in the feed.
Imagine willfully putting identifiable information out to the world to see in 2023.
Delete it.