I ask this without a hint of sarcasm as someone who hasn't used Facebook in a decade: what is currently displayed on your news feed if not updates from friends?
Those memes and videos should only be coming from pages that you follow and groups that you're in.
I don't understand where your comment comes from, to be honest. I use Facebook a decent amount, and every single post in my feed comes from a page that I follow, a group that I'm in, or a friend.
I think the issue is when your friend Bob shares something from a page that you don't follow. People seem to blame Facebook for showing you irrelevant content, rather than blaming their friend Bob for sharing it. People share things on Facebook with the intent for you to see it. If you don't like it, then block the page Bob shared from. If Bob does a lot of sharing, then either unfriend him entirely, or at least unfollow so his crap stops showing up in your feed.
This is absolutely untrue. My feed literally only displays suggested content from page I'm not following (with a small "join" CTA above the page name).
Most of these are garbage content I'm not interested into and not shared by my friends
4. Content that my friends share from pages/groups I don't follow
I feel like people are seeing #4 and blaming Facebook for showing them irrelevant content. Like, if my friend Bob shares a post from a page dedicated to memes centered around the TV show "Lost", then it is entirely the fault of Bob that it's appearing on my feed even though I don't watch Lost. Facebook should take zero blame. Yet, I feel like people do blame Facebook for it.
I don't see content from pages I don't follow unless a friend has shared it specifically.
I don't know where the complaints about feeds being full of brainrot and low-quality content comes from. Your feed is what you make it.
I wish I knew what it was. If those kinds of posts are #4 like you say, then there's no indication on them of who shared it or why I'm seeing it. Half of the posts on my feed are either AI garbage, unfunny memes, or local news from pages I don't follow. [Here's an example](https://i.imgur.com/ZDB0QVv.png).
> 4. Content that my friends share from pages/groups I don't follow
There's more to it than that. I live in the US, and grew up in Australia. My friends are not sharing articles on flights in Africa (not sponsored), nor discussions on HVAC and low voltage wiring (also not sponsored), and beyond.
There's literally a fifth category, "Suggested Posts".
They filled the feed with ads and Facebook recommended content including updates from people, groups, and even other apps that no one asked for but generated them even more revenue than the content we did want and did ask for (up to a point, one which seems to have been hit finally.)
It was all over when they ended the default reverse chrono feed. It will never be good again. I can never be good again. The only good use cases today are mostly around Messenger because your contacts list is all that's useful at Facebook any more.
And not a single screenshot is provided to see what this "OG" feature looks like
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/03/bringing-magic-of-friends-...
I ask this without a hint of sarcasm as someone who hasn't used Facebook in a decade: what is currently displayed on your news feed if not updates from friends?
Mostly random videos and memes that you never asked for. Updates from friends are legitimately difficult to find amongst the noise.
Those memes and videos should only be coming from pages that you follow and groups that you're in.
I don't understand where your comment comes from, to be honest. I use Facebook a decent amount, and every single post in my feed comes from a page that I follow, a group that I'm in, or a friend.
I think the issue is when your friend Bob shares something from a page that you don't follow. People seem to blame Facebook for showing you irrelevant content, rather than blaming their friend Bob for sharing it. People share things on Facebook with the intent for you to see it. If you don't like it, then block the page Bob shared from. If Bob does a lot of sharing, then either unfriend him entirely, or at least unfollow so his crap stops showing up in your feed.
This is absolutely untrue. My feed literally only displays suggested content from page I'm not following (with a small "join" CTA above the page name). Most of these are garbage content I'm not interested into and not shared by my friends
I think people misunderstand how the feed works.
My feed consists 4 types of posts:
1. Friend posting their own content
2. Posts from followed pages
3. Posts from groups I'm a member of
4. Content that my friends share from pages/groups I don't follow
I feel like people are seeing #4 and blaming Facebook for showing them irrelevant content. Like, if my friend Bob shares a post from a page dedicated to memes centered around the TV show "Lost", then it is entirely the fault of Bob that it's appearing on my feed even though I don't watch Lost. Facebook should take zero blame. Yet, I feel like people do blame Facebook for it.
I don't see content from pages I don't follow unless a friend has shared it specifically.
I don't know where the complaints about feeds being full of brainrot and low-quality content comes from. Your feed is what you make it.
I wish I knew what it was. If those kinds of posts are #4 like you say, then there's no indication on them of who shared it or why I'm seeing it. Half of the posts on my feed are either AI garbage, unfunny memes, or local news from pages I don't follow. [Here's an example](https://i.imgur.com/ZDB0QVv.png).
Huh...Strange. I don't get that kind of garbage.
I wish I knew what I was doing differently so I could help you.
They completely ignore "Suggested Posts" which are a full ... 10-20% of my feed and has nothing to do with my friends, just FB pushing content.
> 4. Content that my friends share from pages/groups I don't follow
There's more to it than that. I live in the US, and grew up in Australia. My friends are not sharing articles on flights in Africa (not sponsored), nor discussions on HVAC and low voltage wiring (also not sponsored), and beyond.
There's literally a fifth category, "Suggested Posts".
I blame Facebook for that, not my friends.
Yeah, fuck bob.
They filled the feed with ads and Facebook recommended content including updates from people, groups, and even other apps that no one asked for but generated them even more revenue than the content we did want and did ask for (up to a point, one which seems to have been hit finally.)
It was all over when they ended the default reverse chrono feed. It will never be good again. I can never be good again. The only good use cases today are mostly around Messenger because your contacts list is all that's useful at Facebook any more.
> updates from people, groups, and even other apps that no one asked for
I do not experience this in my feed unless it is an activity from a friend, in which case, I would expect it in my feed.
Friends don’t let friends use Facebook.
Is OG Facebook the one where Zuckerberg thinks Facebook users are dumb fucks?
https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
Why should anyone "trust" him? He doesn't want that trust.
OG is the one when you click on a picture of women you feel more likely to want to sleep with. Good old Facemash.