I’m not so sure about that. My mom posts on Facebook and gets a few likes with pictures of Jesus with text in them, and my wife posts every day with political hot takes, literally just text posts and gets hundreds of likes on virtually every post she makes with tons of comments and engagement.

My high school peers post pictures of their kids all the time. I like their pictures and they like mine. My grandparents all like my posts too, except grandpa who told me not to curse on Facebook so I blocked her. I’ll curse on Facebook if I want, damn it!

Edit: You know, I haven’t even posted this but just to verify I went to Facebook and… 90% was suggested pages and barely any of my friends posts. I swear it wasn’t like this yesterday. Did someone push an algorithm change and screw everything up in prod for Facebook?

I have also noticed a lot more suggested pages recently, I think they pushed a junk algorithm change.

> My mom posts on Facebook and gets a few likes with pictures of Jesus with text in them, and my wife posts every day with political hot takes

I'm so sorry. I hope you can get help.

Yea this comment really buried the personal lede. I think I literally raised an eyebrow.

And the 1% daily posters would actively drive you away from Facebook if their spam of posts showed up in your newsfeed.

You can see this by going to https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

This temporarily forces chronological feed by most recently posted. My feed of actual people turned into a ghost town.

People post liberally to private Groups you're a member of, and you don't need to be their friends. Group posts should be the majority of your newsfeed.

That's an extremely liberal use of the word friend.

A more accurate way to state it would be to say 'facebook connections'. If you don't regularly communicate with them, they aren't your friends.

If they won't help you move a couch, they're not a friend.

If they are only your friend because you talked to them recently they probably aren't your friend either.

That’s nitpicking. These people are called "friends" on FB, not "connections".

It's not nitpicking. It's the correct use of a word with its established definitions.

If you want to use the FB corporate meaning, go ahead, but label it appropriately.

Can we all agree to call them FB friends, not friends.

> 'facebook connections'

This is called an acquaintance.