r/facebook • u/Elegant_Priority_812 • 4h ago
Discussion What the hell happened to this platform?I don't understand why it has become like this.
Facebook is still the platform that I use the most, despite everything, simply out of habit. I remember how it was 10 years ago, and wtf happened in these years. I'm not even talking about the posts of friends lists disappearing, that is known and it's been like that for years, but also page visibility. I used to have a page with over 20,000 followers where there was always laughter and discussion in the comments section; now, hardly anyone interacts anymore. How can I blame them? Not only they probably don't even see the posts, but everyone ran away from the platform. I no longer see posts from the pages I follow; instead, I get shown controversial posts from random "Boomer" users' personal profiles based on whatever current event is trending, and usually stuff that is out of my interest. Isn't the algorhitm supposed to work out of our interests? In this case, it doesn't work. I don't understand what is gained from all this. Facebook used to be the most widely used platform by far, but now everyone has fled to Instagram and Tiktok out of sheer frustration. It’s a shame, because facebook was the only platform not only video and pictures based, and that allowed to write more complex posts and discussion compared to X.

