After a prolonged break from scrolling my Facebook feed I returned to find it full of dreadful unwanted crap from pages I never followed, and that nobody I follow even recommended to me.
This is currently driving me nut. I'm hiding every page it pushes on me like this. It's not like these are typical algorithm pages either because a lot of them are either completely irrelevant to anything I do or view or they go completely against my likes and takes. A lot of right wing pages being pushed lately
To limit your Facebook feed to only show posts from people you follow, you can adjust your News Feed preferences. Here's how you can do it:
On Desktop:
Log in to Facebook: Go to Facebook.com and log in to your account.
Access News Feed Preferences:
Click on the three horizontal lines (menu) in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Scroll down and click on Settings & Privacy.
Then, click on News Feed Preferences.
Prioritize Who to See First:
In the News Feed Preferences menu, click on Prioritize who to see first.
Select the friends or pages you want to see at the top of your feed.
Unfollow People to Hide Their Posts:
In the same News Feed Preferences menu, click on Unfollow people to hide their posts.
You can unfollow friends or pages whose posts you don’t want to see in your feed. This won’t unfriend them, but their posts won’t appear in your feed.
On Mobile (iOS/Android):
Open the Facebook App: Launch the Facebook app on your device.
Access News Feed Preferences:
Tap on the three horizontal lines (menu) in the bottom right corner (iOS) or top right corner (Android).
Scroll down and tap on Settings & Privacy.
Then, tap on News Feed Preferences.
Prioritize Who to See First:
Tap on Prioritize who to see first.
Select the friends or pages you want to see at the top of your feed.
Unfollow People to Hide Their Posts:
Tap on Unfollow people to hide their posts.
Unfollow friends or pages whose posts you don’t want to see in your feed.
Additional Tips:
Snooze: If you want to temporarily hide someone’s posts, you can snooze them for 30 days. Click on the three dots in the top right corner of a post and select Snooze [Name] for 30 days.
Favorites: You can also create a "Favorites" list to prioritize certain friends or pages.
Exactly. I don’t read any news on FB. Even some of their archaeological sites are highly questionable, as though anything ancient and sophisticated must have been developed to extraterrestrials.
I deleted the app before Christmas because I was fed up with exactly this. I only log in once a day on my computer now to see if I've been tagged in any local groups for work opportunities.
Interesting, but I'm not seeing any right-wing or extremist content at all (except liberal/Dem stuff). I follow a Leonard Peltier page but now get swamped with Native American history pages, one day I got 8 different pages with the same Elvis photo. The leftist/independent media I follow get drowned out by the spam but I've seen no increase in extremist content whatsoever. It's the same on Twitter for me.
I am wondering now what you can and can’t believe on Facebook….seems like Trump, Musk and the rest of the billionaires just want you to believe what crap they put out!!
I've stopped using Facebook. Unfortunately I'm locked in by work. I need to have a Facebook account to keep ownership of the work page, most communication it's done in WhatsApp and I can't force the entire rest of the business to use something else
I have also found the that blocking no longer works. I will use the “I don’t want to see this” menu to say I never had want to see a page or account and it will continue to appear on subsequent days. I can tell (it could have been a duplicate name) because the block option is already selected when I go to block it again.
They said that Facebook was deliberately collecting your data to target ads to you, but just looking at the stream of garbage, that clearly isn't the case. Clearly, the algorithm has been trained for a different purpose.
We all have this issue on FB.
Threads is the same. It’s just becoming garbage.
Yep. All of that. FB is utterly pointless now, and BlueSky and Substack are much, much better options.
This is currently driving me nut. I'm hiding every page it pushes on me like this. It's not like these are typical algorithm pages either because a lot of them are either completely irrelevant to anything I do or view or they go completely against my likes and takes. A lot of right wing pages being pushed lately
Yes, they certainly do spread the rubbish about
To limit your Facebook feed to only show posts from people you follow, you can adjust your News Feed preferences. Here's how you can do it:
On Desktop:
Log in to Facebook: Go to Facebook.com and log in to your account.
Access News Feed Preferences:
Click on the three horizontal lines (menu) in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Scroll down and click on Settings & Privacy.
Then, click on News Feed Preferences.
Prioritize Who to See First:
In the News Feed Preferences menu, click on Prioritize who to see first.
Select the friends or pages you want to see at the top of your feed.
Unfollow People to Hide Their Posts:
In the same News Feed Preferences menu, click on Unfollow people to hide their posts.
You can unfollow friends or pages whose posts you don’t want to see in your feed. This won’t unfriend them, but their posts won’t appear in your feed.
On Mobile (iOS/Android):
Open the Facebook App: Launch the Facebook app on your device.
Access News Feed Preferences:
Tap on the three horizontal lines (menu) in the bottom right corner (iOS) or top right corner (Android).
Scroll down and tap on Settings & Privacy.
Then, tap on News Feed Preferences.
Prioritize Who to See First:
Tap on Prioritize who to see first.
Select the friends or pages you want to see at the top of your feed.
Unfollow People to Hide Their Posts:
Tap on Unfollow people to hide their posts.
Unfollow friends or pages whose posts you don’t want to see in your feed.
Additional Tips:
Snooze: If you want to temporarily hide someone’s posts, you can snooze them for 30 days. Click on the three dots in the top right corner of a post and select Snooze [Name] for 30 days.
Favorites: You can also create a "Favorites" list to prioritize certain friends or pages.
Agreed, though my experience of bluesky was that it's full of transgender ideology slop.
Exactly. I don’t read any news on FB. Even some of their archaeological sites are highly questionable, as though anything ancient and sophisticated must have been developed to extraterrestrials.
I deleted the app before Christmas because I was fed up with exactly this. I only log in once a day on my computer now to see if I've been tagged in any local groups for work opportunities.
Interesting, but I'm not seeing any right-wing or extremist content at all (except liberal/Dem stuff). I follow a Leonard Peltier page but now get swamped with Native American history pages, one day I got 8 different pages with the same Elvis photo. The leftist/independent media I follow get drowned out by the spam but I've seen no increase in extremist content whatsoever. It's the same on Twitter for me.
Driving me crazy too. Seems to be spending ages blocking the bar stewards. My guess is they are paying to push these sites, or they are bots
I am wondering now what you can and can’t believe on Facebook….seems like Trump, Musk and the rest of the billionaires just want you to believe what crap they put out!!
I've stopped using Facebook. Unfortunately I'm locked in by work. I need to have a Facebook account to keep ownership of the work page, most communication it's done in WhatsApp and I can't force the entire rest of the business to use something else
I have also found the that blocking no longer works. I will use the “I don’t want to see this” menu to say I never had want to see a page or account and it will continue to appear on subsequent days. I can tell (it could have been a duplicate name) because the block option is already selected when I go to block it again.
They said that Facebook was deliberately collecting your data to target ads to you, but just looking at the stream of garbage, that clearly isn't the case. Clearly, the algorithm has been trained for a different purpose.
“(I genuinely pity the people who use their phones to like memes about how people in the good old days didn’t waste their time on phones).”
Perfectly put.👏