What is your facebook user experience like?

Lysander said:
Personally I can't stand the place. I'm only on it for research purposes, which it's incredibly useful for. I don't have the app on my phone and I don't check it every day. It seems a very old-fashioned way of doing social media now with the news feed of videos, images and status updates being the main focus. No wonder younger people think it's only for boomers. It's hardly vivid, real-time and dynamic.



I don't 'do' social media either [forums notwithstanding] - as for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc, I dislike them all equally.
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Instagram is actually really good as a lurker. I'm also not in any of the others, but following some of my favourite 'people' has made Instagram a useful way to pass a few minutes of boredom. Mostly car folks, manufacturers etc.
 
Yeah instagram is as good or as bad as you make it. I mostly just follow friends and family, F1 Drivers/Teams, few NBA teams/players, general athletes/sports people, musicians and a few PC Gaming related things. It never gets on my nerves like Twitter or Facebook did.
 
I've subscribed to some groups relevant to my hobbies and interests, technical groups mainly.
I rarely look at my 'feed' (usual asinine posts - pets, kids, selfies). If it's a close relatives birthday, I might drop them a quick greeting.
Mainly I use it as another 'tool' for reading about my interests. That's it.
 
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Scougar said:
Do you find the 'pages' app any good? I've not found it reliable in giving notifications.
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I “use” the Business Suite app from Facebook if this is what you mean. It’s pretty bad. Notifications don’t go away, it’s unreliable to navigate, is slow, crashes, etc, etc.
 
I only use it sparingly for advice from a FB group that’s specialised.

Just having a look at old friends posts and from what I can see they’re all posting absolute dross.

My sisters posts are so staged, she looks like she’s put her makeup on with a trowel, she must take all her photos in one corner of the house that’s doesn’t look like a council dump and her boyfriends wearing his fake designer clothes and had a wash. In reality she normally looks like a burst couch and he’s wearing his 80s tracksuit banging out about how good his weekend was as he got a new Xbox game and some dry weed. :cry:
 
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.
 
A lot of people are still using their original account. They posted a load of embarassing junk as a teenager when posts were public by default. Then at some point posts changed to friends only by default. So now when you view someone's facebook page you only see their teenager posts. Trying to go back through time and clean up old posts doesn't work because the UI is terrible (deliberately, probably). Only way to deal with it is delete the account and make a new one.
 
FB used to be fun when it was new to us, then the parents started joining up and telling us off. Most of the time it's used for virtue signalling posting pictures of special kids and lost dogs, lost bank cards, teenager gone missing for a few hours then someone posts he/she has been found and came home.
 
I made a point from the start never to use FB on a mobile as I would find it too distracting with everything being (seemingly) time-critical. I think nowadays, FB is part of the stock install of Android, so I use Apex Launcher to hide the FB app and a few other apps such as Twitter so that they don't clog up my app drawer.

For desktop (browser) version of FB, I use a Greasemonkey / Violentmonkey script called Facebook Cleaner.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/409912-facebook-cleaner

You can strip out bit such as suggested friends, sponsored posts and local groups and tweak the layout of the page to make it easier on the eye. Like with ad-blockers, it's a bit cat-and-mouse because the sponsored / ads will eventually reappear so you have to update the script every so often. Like with updating virus definitions!

Outside of sponsored and ads, and actually focusing on the posts that people make, I think FB rather impersonal. I prefer to use instant messaging. I have family members on WhatsApp and my friends are now all on Signal and I find that works for me. I use WhatsApp/Signal mostly on the desktop and a bit on mobile. The main purpose of FB to me is the open and closed groups which is probably the closest to FB being a forum, where people actually interact by replying to each other instead of clicking a like button.
 
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