Re:Facebook Lies
by mcny on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @10:16AM
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If you think that is weird, consider what I have done. I manually went through 1100+ friends on facebook and unfollowed them all because facebook won't show me everything in the activity feed but rather tries to guess what I like best. My activity feed is now perfect because it is pretty much just me.
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Funny thing, I used to use Facebook for messenger and a news feed. Then they switched to this whole thing about forcing friends posts to come up first. Unfortunately this means now I get news I'm not interested in (memes, my grandma's crazy internet news, conspiracy theories from that guy I went to high school but have had 0 interaction on facebook with, etc). I also unfollow people that post crazy stuff and I keep getting their content. I've been trying to find that feed that you have, but good lord does facebook not want me to have it.
Yep--that's certainly weirder.
Yup, in an attempt to avoid falling into Facebook's echo chamber I have created a news feed that is funnily enough just my posts. At least this means I don't have any incentive to look at my news feed anymore.