Re: Facebook gets more useless

On 4/23/24 10:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 16:59 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 4/23/24 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote at 03:34 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 4/22/24 2:45 AM, Jim Jackson 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.
 
The more I see of facebook the less I like.
 
sorry for the rant

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No need. It sucks.  I've made my facebook experience as close to usenet
as I can, but it's miles away.
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If you're using firefox or chrome, install the Social Fixer extension.
It will enable you to filter out a LOT of the annoying stuff -- like
anything with 'suggested' in any part of the post.  You should already
be using adblock plus...

 
I'm suprised they haven't fought that extension yet.

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They made him change its name and they've done something to disable some
of the more useful bits, but it's probably not worth their time and
effort.  What IS amazing is that the adblock* extensions still work. And
what's more amazing is that people complain about ads and don't use
adblocks :-(

 
Figures. Maybe people are scared of adblockers?

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More likely they've never heard of them.  There are tons of people who
don't even know about settings/preferences -- for any of the software
they use.