Facebook has become a cesspool of clickbaits. Less that 1/3 of my feed is people I know (most of which quitted posting anything years ago) or groups I subscribed to - the rest is literally spam, as in meat that's been ground finely and repackaged in a thousands ways. The result is a general sense of nausea.
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I have no idea why or how, but lately FB has been showing me a ton of really interesting "suggested for you" content that actually gets me sucked in. Stuff like clips from nature docs, min-docs on extinct megafauna, time-lapse building a cabin in the woods, etc.
I feel like I must be part of some pilot program to actually show people stuff they want to see. I'm sure it won't be deemed profitable enough.
There is some config, where you set your feed to be your friends and similar.
I use Facebook only because the town groups are all there. It's the local forum board, and barely anything else for me at this point.
Yeah, I haven't had this experience of FB showing me random stuff I didn't ask for. All I see is updates from my friends, and pages I explicitly joined (e.g. Raccoons, Cross Washington Mountain Bike Route, etc).
If there's annoying stuff on my feed, it's because of something I did, and can undo (e.g. unfollow someone who posts annoying stuff)
Whenever I'm told about the impressive work people are doing at their FAANG dev job, I always wonder what they mean. Because the product I see is not particularly appealing (I suppose I am the product though). They did at least switch from showing me political rage bait to women whose nipples I can clearly see through their clothing, which is indeed more pleasing to me, but not what I go to Facebook for, and eventually drove me off.
This. And I keep staring at it, under the excuse of a faint hope that it might perhaps build partial immunity to attention dump feeds that aren't yet quite as terrible (and therefore more dangerous)
And hitting your head is a great way to improve your neck muscles.