[chatmasta]

My facebook feed has officially jumped the shark as of the last 6-12 months. I blame the 2016 election and Facebook IPO. At this point almost every single article in my feed is an advertisement (some overt, some not). The few posts that are actually from my friends are politically charged links they share. It seems that 80% of people do not share content on Facebook, but the 20% of people who do, share it multiple times per day. Even though I have ~1500 friends on Facebook (all personally known over the past 10 years), I see posts from the same ~25 people, most of whom I hardly ever interact with, every single day.

The only time I browse my FB newsfeed is on my phone when I've run out of any other interesting content online. I never browse it on my desktop. I do use FB messenger quite frequently.

I like Instagram and Snapchat because they are what Facebook used to be: real content created by and shared by your friends. Not links to bullshit articles. Not advertisements. Just content that your friends created for you to watch.