Besieged by 'posts' on my Facebook page.

ThisIsWeird

This started a week or so ago - any absolute bludy screed of cluckin' posts, where I used to have none (well, apart from the couple of sites I've chosen).
It's bludy endless - must be a dozen or more per day. My index finger is worn out deleting the 'stewrads, and 'blocking' them.
Why did this start up?
Ta.

marcia_

ThisIsWeird said:

This started a week or so ago - any absolute bludy screed of cluckin' posts, where I used to have none (well, apart from the couple of sites I've chosen).
It's bludy endless - must be a dozen or more per day. My index finger is worn out deleting the 'stewrads, and 'blocking' them.
Why did this start up?
Ta.

 In your normal feed you get tons of 'suggested for you' posts things facebook apparently thinks you like. 

 Click on feeds, then friends or groups etc and you will be shown posts from that group with a few sponsored ads but no recommended or suggested posts 

ThisIsWeird

Are you saying it's normal, and can't be stopped? 
It only began a couple of weeks back. This morn it's 'learn italian', 'bodybuilding', 'portrait drawing'...
What the hell?! I don't want to be a better person...
I block each one individually, but know that this ain't going to do the job.
How do I stop unwanted posts?
Ta.

Nooooooo - I just got one from Katie Price! :-(

Neil_Jones

ThisIsWeird said:

Are you saying it's normal, and can't be stopped? 
It only began a couple of weeks back. This morn it's 'learn italian', 'bodybuilding', 'portrait drawing'...
What the hell?! I don't want to be a better person...
I block each one individually, but know that this ain't going to do the job.
How do I stop unwanted posts?
Ta.

Nooooooo - I just got one from Katie Price! :-(

I doubt it came "from" Katie Price, its just been pushed to you by the algorithm

The whole point of these sites has gone beyond "you are now friends with Tom, Jerry and Spike and you can see what they're posting about"  to a more "Tom made a post about the fish he likes, perhaps you would like to follow John West?  Jerry made a post about the cheese he doesn't like, would you like this '30 mistakes you are making with cheese, number 7 will shock you!' article?  Spike bought a new dog collar, would you like to buy this from Dog Collars R Us?  20% off by clicking this link!" sort of posts.

Essentially if your Facebook feed isn't full of "suggested"posts then according to them you're doing something wrong.  The filters are available (as previously mentioned) but that results in a major cut down experience which looks a bit miserable.

Other solutions are available such as FB Purity, or other social media sites are available.

ThisIsWeird

Neil_Jones said:

I doubt it came "from" Katie Price, its just been pushed to you by the algorithm

The whole point of these sites has gone beyond "you are now friends with Tom, Jerry and Spike and you can see what they're posting about"  to a more "Tom made a post about the fish he likes, perhaps you would like to follow John West?  Jerry made a post about the cheese he doesn't like, would you like this '30 mistakes you are making with cheese, number 7 will shock you!' article?  Spike bought a new dog collar, would you like to buy this from Dog Collars R Us?  20% off by clicking this link!" sort of posts.

Essentially if your Facebook feed isn't full of "suggested"posts then according to them you're doing something wrong.  The filters are available (as previously mentioned) but that results in a major cut down experience which looks a bit miserable.

Other solutions are available such as FB Purity, or other social media sites are available.

Thanks Neil.

Yes, I do realise it's 'algorithm'-influenced, and many of the posts are actually of interest as they've clearly picked up on things I've looked at before (no, not KP... ). What confused me was that I never had any of this intrusion before, just posts from the very few folk and organisations I do follow.

'Purity' sounds interesting - I'll give that a bash if needed. Thanks!

Vitor

Meta hoped and expected TikTok was going to be blocked, so have turned Facebook into a bad clone of TikTok's 'For You Page' 

ThisIsWeird

It seems to have sorted itself out a few days ago No further posts from weirdos. Really miss them.