What is your facebook user experience like?

[Scougar]

So... I finally removed FB from my phone.

My experience with FB on a mobile device is:

• Every third post is a sponsored post. (these are typically just complete trash that I have ZERO INTEREST in. - Look at how horrible these celeb's are etc. - yes I deleted all my preferences and it made no difference)
• Every 2nd post is showing me a reply to a sponsored post by a friend.
• Only groups right now seem spared from adverts. I can only imagine right now that it will change to display them.
• The 'search' function now show's adverts for other groups and sponsored content, and I have to click a second time to get the search bar.
• You look at a video, and suddenly you are pushed a load of 'questionable' video's. Again, I don't need to see that.

This past year and a half has just gone crazy with 1) The amount of advertising on the platform 2) The pure trash advertising content. It's just become clickbait central.

For the moment, I've had enough. I run a group so it'll be a PITA, but just so tired of the mindless crap on there.

If there was a semi-decent social platform that wasn't hell bent on shoving advertising down your throat, had decent security and wasn't right wing nut jobs... I might be interested.

 

[Scougar]

So you post mindless crap here instead?
I think you are the problem not FB...

oooo... clearly I forgot to put the 'roast' tag on here. Go you.


But please do elaborate quite how I dictate FB advertising policy? I'd love to read your thoughts on my direct influence of a multi billion dollar company.

 

[Scougar]

Only keep FB for work purposes, I manage a number of business pages.

I did use it fairly extensively about 10 years ago but the platform and users have changed a lot since then.

Do you find the 'pages' app any good? I've not found it reliable in giving notifications.

 

[Scougar]

lol too easy. Edit yes, but like you say its reached peak advertising. Its not gonna change so you do what you gotta do.
Why not just run a simple website with a forum type thing on it and share it to your "group"
Then you can discuss anime and manga there... omg I'm funny.

FB is dominate in the space, and the group is for everyone that has a particular product.
-- Curious... is your suggestion just meaning that the group is a 'shell', and just redirecting people to a website?

Personally... I like to see what my wife and friends put up. I barely post to my own personal page.

If I'm a problem, it would be in the 'posting crap on sponsored posts' arguing with people where it will make zero difference lol.

Anime and manga? I haven't been interested in that since I was at college, but ok (hopefully just an example). If you read the original post, you will see that groups aren't really impacted by advertising yet, so it won't benefit anything at present for moving a group to a website)

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I think FB is trying to push advertising as far as possible now. They will continue until they start losing money from doing it.

 

[Scougar]

My user experience is excellent.
I get rid of Covid CT'ers, racists and those who are very political.
I get rid of adverts I don't want to see.
I have no idea what goes through the mind of idiots who moan about it and don't know how to do the above.
You can make Facebook work for you.

On my mobile device 'with the app' I have no choice but to see adverts/sponsored posts.
Every time I see an advert I don't want to see I 'hide ad' and 'block' it from appearing again. (I quite literally do this 10 to 50 times A DAY to try and stop crappy adverts)
Hundreds more are still there of the same ilk. Celebrity trash, omg look at this click bait article, casino, copy cat games etc etc.

It's not like I haven't tried, and I've used firefox in the past with ad blockers etc, but it IS NOT RELIABLE, and a lot of posts simply refuse to work etc, or ad-blockers make it so FB won't even work. Hence.. going back to the app.

But if you have a way to actually stop FB from bombarding my main feed with adverts on the app, please let me know!

 

[Scougar]

I don't use Facebook. Once got kicked out of a job interview for not doing so, but meh.

Wait... what? How does that even work? lol.

I have friends that actively delete FB during interview time. Social media is now being used to get a 'profile' on you, and all things like publicly swearing online etc are being trawled and accounted to give you a score. This is actually being used by companies. Black Mirror isn't too far from a potential reality in the future.

If FB advertised paintball gear, car parts, racing venues, holiday locations, computer parts, computer news it would be wonderful. It rarely does any of those. Hell... I laugh when I'm shown remedies for a period, or electric breast pumps or 'prep' pills that are marketed to LGBT+. Real 'targeted' as a 40+ male that isn't having any more kids.

 

[Scougar]

FB is dominate in the space, and the group is for everyone that has a particular product.
-- Curious... is your suggestion just meaning that the group is a 'shell', and just redirecting people to a website?

Personally... I like to see what my wife and friends put up. I barely post to my own personal page.

If I'm a problem, it would be in the 'posting crap on sponsored posts' arguing with people where it will make zero difference lol.

Anime and manga? I haven't been interested in that since I was at college, but ok (hopefully just an example). If you read the original post, you will see that groups aren't really impacted by advertising yet, so it won't benefit anything at present for moving a group to a website)

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I think FB is trying to push advertising as far as possible now. They will continue until they start losing money from doing it.

It might be 'now' in the USA but here it's been going on for at least 13 years I know of.
When I got my job at the hospital my new boss actually said we couldn't find anything nasty on Facebook.

I work for a legal firm and work in IT security/dev. I had a ton of background checks done that took weeks, but I don't see any FB being checked. If there was a deep trawl of all my posts then being less than courteous to random muppets might come up lol.

 

[Scougar]

I feel like I have become a worse human from using it.

And same as above, I have a group of 3000 people that I look after, that I have managed to it not become a toxic cesspit by close monitoring and guidance. Between that and seeing family stuff is only reason to have it.

 

[Scougar]

LOL.

Well... I'm not missing it so far... I'll have to delve into my basement where my gaming PC is, and check in on my group.