Social media companies are trying too hard. People just want a chronological feed of things they followed. Nothing more. Stop trying to add shit people don't want.
Instagram Is Facebook Now
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#12If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).
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#13I abandoned my account some weeks ago when they where forcing me to add my phone number in order to log in.
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#14I don't see the difference between the algorithm putting those posts in your feed and putting ads. They are both unwanted content.
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#15If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).
Hell, im a pretty early adopter of instagram along with loads of friends and like 95% of content has become stories.
Turns out Snapchat was what most of us wanted but without a purposefully obtuse interface
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#16If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).
Most people under the age of 30 are using Snapchat
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#17At this point, Instagram decided it wants to be a TV and just show me what it wants me to see, not my carefully curated feed. I'm letting my account die.
Exactly. I just use instagram to msg people who aren't on Telegram and other services as I don't have FB. I don't think I've ever used the feed before, simply because of seeing ads. I never watch stories either. It's a dumpster fire, and any algorithm to show me stuff is a mistake, full stop. I only want to see my friends stuff chronologically, nothing else on the app matters for me. I genuinely don't understand why…
I think the idea is that ads slip in more easily with an algorithm.
Last time I used FB properly you could get the following kind of news feed:
actual post from friend, friend actively liked a post from a business, ad from a business a friend previously liked
Essentially posts from unknown accounts look less out of place this way
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#18At this point, Instagram decided it wants to be a TV and just show me what it wants me to see, not my carefully curated feed. I'm letting my account die.
Exactly. I just use instagram to msg people who aren't on Telegram and other services as I don't have FB. I don't think I've ever used the feed before, simply because of seeing ads. I never watch stories either. It's a dumpster fire, and any algorithm to show me stuff is a mistake, full stop. I only want to see my friends stuff chronologically, nothing else on the app matters for me. I genuinely don't understand why…
> I genuinely don't understand why they do this.
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#19Pressing the menu button on the post and then hide I got the choice to hide suggested posts. Though in true Facebook fashion only for 30 days and not permanently.
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#20I abandoned my account some weeks ago when they where forcing me to add my phone number in order to log in.
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