Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

Buttflapper@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 13 points –

I remember when you could go on Facebook and look through your feed at what your friends are saying, catch up with them, and browse posts that they have made. Now, it's just completely random and chaotic, almost nonsensical. There's no logical sense to my Facebook feed at all. As you can see in the image, they are showing me stuff that I'm not even following. This is not even something that I am actively a part of! It's some random group. So what's the point of following a group or liking a page, if they're just going to show you random stuff anyway?

Like, wtf happened to this website?

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You know what sucks about Facebook? The fact that it took the reigns from Craigslist and you can't buy local used stuff without having a Facebook account. I hate hate hate that. I want to sell my used shit without a Facebook account. It's all fucking tire kickers anyway.

The solution is to keep using craigslist - it still exists and gets some activity. Ensure that it gets more.

I have never been on Facebook, never even been on the website.

The day it started I told my college-age family that it was a privacy nightmare. They called me paranoid.

Facebook's Shadow profile on you doesn't care whether you have an account or visited their site.

I'm not going to allow them to coerce me into making an account because they have a simulacrum of me.

Just use craigslist. I do. Even in low pop areas it works.

As a non American I'm more salty about Oculus. lol Although at its height it was also severely annoying that every freaking company used FB pages instead of their own websites, including for support requests. So without FB you literally could not contact them. Luckily that trend only held up for a few years but it was still annoying as hell.

Oculus was founded by a shitty person who sold to Facebook and then went on to help make a company to bring Big Tech into surveillance and autonomous weapon systems. Basically, he's trying to bring on an orwellian nightmare.

Oculus would have gone bad weather or not Facebook bought them.