Facebook 12+

Facebook used to be amazing. Now it’s mostly ads. They tried to create an algorithm where you have visibility of the same group of people over and over, it’s VERY boring. Their reels platform was actually getting pretty cool because they paid content creators to come over, but then when things started going well, they stopped paying them. They refused to ever monetize my account because I posted a video with a watermark, 15 videos back. Their appeal process is horrible and they have literally zero customer service. They “shadow ban” you if you post a link or share a news story so no one actually has visibility unless they search for it on my page. They grossly limit freedom of speech, esp for LGBTQ and other minority groups. They layered in so many things it got confusing, messenger is it’s own app, but reels is not, making reels difficult to share. Their system in wonky and hard to maneuver through, you get used to it, but the whole time your think “why?”. It has some value for older people to stay in touch, that’s the only good thing I can say. Like an abandoned amusement park, it used to be fun, but now it’s rusty and outdated.

My feed has been completely dominated by ads and pages I do not follow, I got almost 2 thousand people added but barely see posts from them on my feed, just as I am aware my posts barely show to other people as well, likely a shadow ban as no post have the same reach as it used to have years ago. It doesn't even matter if I try to manually search for someone and interact, the feed is 90% pages I do not follow and often stuff that I don't even care about.

Once in a while the app glitches, notifications are not reliable and sometimes don't show you comments people have made. Other times it takes hours to notify you of something.

I've seen too many content that go against the community standards being accepted, which I reported and Facebook seemed to be okay with it because they say nothing was wrong about them. The review team is useless and biased, I already got banned from Facebook for telling jokes or talking about video games and the review team didn't care at all about any context, if there's one word they don't like it's bye bye. Not to mention when I criticized a movie few years ago and got banned without any explanation or even a chance for appeal to the decision. But when a friend of mine who is autistic got offended and received threats from a random dude, she was the one getting a restriction on her account and not the aggressor.

I HATE HATE HATE HATE the prompt “is this still available?” It’s such a waste of my time and encourages people to waste it! Over half the people that ask to buy something simply lose interest and stop responding. THAT question starts it. I have wasted hours of my life responding “yes” to that dumb question. And now the new template response, “yes are you still interested”?!? If they weren’t why did they ask to begin with?!? Questions I want to see are of buyers asking where and when to meet, etc or for more information, done. Fast and simple transaction. Not hemming and hawing for weeks. I know there are many other people like me who delete ads right after things are sold and are also frustrated by this, so PLEASE change it!

Facebook is progressively becoming more of a clickbait ad site instead of a place to see and follow friends. Moreover Facebook is doing nothing about ad scams. I personally lost $80 from one of them selling inflatable kayaks I never got, and there’s a YETI one with fake Yeti bags they’re doing nothing about. I’m sick of ads in the marketplace such as Yumi or whatever it’s called. I accidentally click on it every time because it looks just like any other ad so then I have to close the link and get back to marketplace getting annoyed.

I’m nearly to the point of deleting facebook. If so much of my life and that of my family wasn’t on here in timeline, I would.