I’m of the minority that says ban it completely. It has done this country and the world absolutely no favors. Ever since the Epstein class realized they could use it to brain wash morons to support their asinine beliefs, it has gone to shit. Foreign adversaries have manipulated it to spread propaganda and divide the country. It didn’t have to be like this. Facebook was just a place to talk to your friends and post photos from the party you were at with them. Everything was chronological and you only heard from people that you actually knew IRL. We couldn’t have that, because Zuckerberg needed to sell ads. The decision to open up the feed and show you shit from random ass people gave birth to influencer culture and massive amounts of mis /disinformation.
I’d much rather it be an all or nothing thing. And nothing is by far the better option, for every reason you stated.
I think I left shortly after things were no longer chronological. It’s been so long I can’t remember what the last straw was. I don’t remember seeing stuff from non-friends though.
I recently made the mistake of opening a Facebook link by accident. I’ll document my experience so nobody else has to go through what I did.
I couldn’t even figure out what I was looking at, it was just a mess. Everything bleeds into everything else. I scrolled down from the cat video my mum sent me, and there was terrorist bombings in a foreign country. It just kept scrolling, felt like complete brainrot and emotional and contextual whiplash. Videos were auto playing with sound, and every post was a video.
I had 99+ notifications, but none of them were messages from a human. They were all engagement baiting. Everything on the page was fighting for my attention. Like what is even happening. I was bewildered and mildly frightened.
The Facebook I remember was when I would just see a feed of my friends’ activities, like my photographer friend would post all their beautiful artworks, another would post their comic strips, or a report on their weekend. I don’t like whatever it is now.
