Re: Facebook gets more useless

Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:

 
I know - don't use it! But ...
 
Several groups I'm involved with use it, so I created an account.
Minimal, and wrong, personal info, set to just follow the groups I
needed to follow, and all worked fine. I was getting just the recent
stuff in my feed.
 
Until just now, when I'm getting loads of suggestions of groups to
follow that I'm not interested in! It makes following the stuff I want
to see painfull.

This is to be expected.  Facebook's sole purpose for existing is to
market your eyeballs to advertisers.  The more that they can keep you
"in facebook" the more money they make from those advertisers that want
to buy your eyeball time.  Therefore it is profitable for them to
"suggest" all likes of "other things" for you to "be interested" in on
facebook, because if they do so, some percentage of those ads will
result in more facebook usage (translation: more eyeballs sold to
advertisers).

It may not work for you, but for the multi-million others that they
sent the same 'invites' too, a large enough share of them did "join"
yet another group such that facebook's profit increased, so from
facebook's perspective, the attempt was a positive gain for them.

The more I see of facebook the less I like.

I saw facebook as nothing more than the "AOL" of the internet.  AOL was
crapola during its time, just as facebook is crapola now.  So I never
joined.  Still don't have a facebook account.