I hope forums make a come back, facebook is now a joke!

Im not a FB'er. Never was. But at least year ago it was easy to maneuver..... Not anymore!!

There are groups for everything.

And unfortunately, EVERYTHING unrelated is now on specific group FB pages.

Its so cluttered with adds and other garbage that its very INEFFICIENT to see and read what you came there for. Half of the adds consume your whole phone display. Talk about over scrolling!

When did this happen?

Clean it up FB!!! Your no longer user friendly.

venting out loud

Facebook was a social network - as in it required people to join groups and establish links to friends

however in recent years Tik-Tok has eaten into its membership ( and thereby profits) with its purely algorithm driven swipe to interact service - no network at all

Facebook seem to have lost their way and are now trying to chase TiK-Tok by using more algorithm driven content - ads, videos it thinks you will want to watch, that auto-start etc - all in the desperate clammer to keep us all glued to our screens consuming content
i was unappealing to me before - but its simply repugnant now

the power of these algorithms is quote astounding - they say that Tik-Tok knows what you like better than your best friend after only 45mins of swiping.

bear in mind the business models of these platforms - and why they want you continuously scrolling and swiping.
That data on your preferences, location, history etc and anything else it can glean about you is then stored under a unique ID and sold to the highest bidder - eg for advertisers to use to target you - or perhaps political parties to use in their campaigns.

TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, mostly allows third-party trackers to collect your data — and from there, it’s hard to say what happens with it.

With third-party trackers, it’s essentially impossible to know who’s tracking your data or what information they’re collecting, from which posts you interact with — and how long you spend on each one — to your physical location and any other personal information you share with the app.

As the study noted, third-party trackers can track your activity on other sites even after you leave the app.

“Consumers are currently unable to see what data is shared with third-party networks, or how their data will be used,” the report’s authors wrote.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more-than-any-other-social-media-app-study.html

Besides health websites, every other sport, hobby and special interest group had active members on Web based forums. Last five years many of those groups have changed to a Facebook platform and watched member participation fall off of the map.

It’s so useful to dig up history in any type of forum and find boatloads of past information. You cannot do that on any type of Facebook platform, since there is no such thing as a “thread”.

As far as obtaining information. Facebook is only good if you are constantly on it because you might miss something. That’s why people are addicted to it. They’re looking at it constantly so they don’t miss something.

Facebook to me is like trying to complete a new driving destination through unknown roadways without any map at all.

You can only scroll down so far, unlike on a forum where you can see the individual threads and go from there.

I haven't had fb in over 4 years. I don't like social media, Instagram ,nothing. That's just me though. I visited the IBS and stomach forms on here and they were awful let me tell you. Nobody answered questions and everyone on the forum is just as lost as me lol. When I find the other lyme forums I joined I will post the link here. With my brain fog I forgot the name smh.