Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
One of the appeals of Bluesky (for now) is the Followimg feed that presents comments exclusively from people I follow, in chronological order.
Crazy that Facebook can’t deliver this anymore
The technical complexity of showing a chronological feed of posts from subscribed accounts? Are you asking for one to scoff at thou peasant? You might as well request a toaster without bluetooth BAHAHAHA! BEGONE!
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I don’t have a point, but felt like typing it in Ruby. Maybe someone else will have something snarky to say.
This is ironic because all the 40 year old chicks who are career users of FB since college, all cite the same justification for continuing to use it: “But all my photos and the current happenings of my friends”.
If you showed them epirical data that only 17% of what they consume on the platform is actually even tangentially related to their friends and family, maybe they’d finally decouple themselves from FB.
And all the photos look like shit because they’ve been recompressed in JPEG, and all the metadata is just gone.
This. I have to go out of my way to even see my wife’s posts (well, before I deleted Facebook).
2/3rds of my feed are ads.
This metric is bullshit because they fucked up the waters.
Well, I deleted my account so that won’t work. But that’s crazy if that’s true (not doubting you).
I just scrolled Facebook, and out of the 44 posts I came across 10 were from friends or pages I had liked. The rest was sponsored slop, or “you should follow this person” type posts.
No wonder the social interaction is down, when less than a quarter of posts I come across are from the reason to have Facebook.
I’m not friends with corporations, so don’t push me their shit.
Prime Facebook was 2007 - 2011/12. When they started algorithm-ing friends posts, that heralded the end. I don’t care that I haven’t interacted with friend XYZ for a long while, I’m still interested in seeing their stuff equally as much as friend ABC who I interact with daily
Agreed. 1/10 of the posts were from friends for me, and half of those friends posts were from one chronic Facebook acquaintance that I should unfriend.
I went through and unfriended a couple of hundred people that I need not be friends with on the platform anymore recently, and I’ve got to say I was impressed with how little my real friends actually post to Facebook. It wasn’t uncommon to see someone’s last post to be well before 2020 on there, over half a decade ago.
It leads me to believe that the concept of pushing out a comment to the Facebook news feed died a long time ago for the average millennial. People still probably comment in groups, but have set up privacy filters that prevent them from being shown publicly. Stories get used more, but it’s maybe 5-10 people posting the lions share of them.
I miss when the Instagram homepage showed all your friends’ new posts before it showed recommended stuff. Now it’s all interwoven
Centralized for profit social media should be over.
He should know, he’s the one that put a shotgun in its mouth over a decade ago.
Social media said Mark Zuckerberg was over and sadly I think neither are right.
May I be the first to say…
