Things I love FACEBOOK for: keeping up with newsfeeds from international new sources such as Le Monde, local news feeds, community events, cultural events including discounted tickets(LA Phil, La Opera et al), invitations to gallery openings, updates on museum and university lectures, local alumni discounts and events, invitations to recitals, and even free fresh vegetables (our community of 10,000 has a very active page where locals share their abundance with neighbors). What I don’t like about FACEBOOK: “share if you love your ******”" posts, platitudes, political and religious posts, self obsessed selfies, etc etc. I have already “unfriended” people who post all that sort of thing so my feed is relatively “clean”.
What I especially don’t like: pressure posts.
“Cancer kills blank # of people a year. If you care about people who have cancer, repost this” or “change your profile pic to this” - that kind of stuff.
I am not pressured by this but I feel it’s an odd ask. I can do a lot more to show I “care” than click on my FB page!!!
As a member of a few special interest groups (nature related), I abhor the attention seeking members who post a meme or video every 30 minutes or so. It clutters the page and causes the pertinent posts to be more difficult to find.
Yeah, but @abasket, it takes me over an hour to scroll through the last day’s worth of stuff. If I didn’t check but once a week, I may as well not use it at all. I do wish we could get the internet grabs in a separate “column”, that would be awesome, then get actual, real posts all by themselves.
Well sure, if you’re going to go on once a week and expect to read everything from the last week - that will be a time suck!
That is one of the expectations we put on ourselves - to have to read EVERYTHING to the point of where we left off last time. Lose that expectation and just read till you are bored. Or keep your group of friends small!!! 
I’ve put some friends and family on my close friends’ list so I am notified when they post. That way I’m not obligated to check frequently just in case I might miss something.
I use Facebook almost exclusively on my phone.
The political attack ads really tick me off, but there is an easy way to “block all” from the groups responsible for them… but there are a lot of sources for those, so I continue seeing them, in droves… and blocking them.
@musicamusica . . . le Monde - oui!
I wish there was another platform that worked like FB, but where you didn’t have “friends” - i.e., you just had your groups and issues that you follow. I guess maybe that’s Twitter (?). Or Pinterest? I still haven’t figured out how to work Pinterest though.
That would be Twitter. But again, it’s important to be selective in what you follow - the more you follow, the more there is to read through. You can also make “lists” in Twitter so “work sites”, “celebrities” “fitness websites”, etc.
I love social media in general. Each type has a different purpose for me.
I used to do Twitter but I feel like it’s gotten mean and negative in the last year or two. Maybe I need to re-visit.
My son was trying to explain Reddit and Tumblr to me.
I don’t really follow “friends” on Twitter - Twitter for me is about new sources, work resources, bloggers - educational based things, things I’ll learn or become updated from - not so much banter.
You can also go to their page and in the bottom right corner of their cover photo next to “Messages” you’ll see “Following”. Pull down and select “See First” and they will always be at the top of your newsfeed. 
“I don’t really follow “friends” on Twitter - Twitter for me is about new sources, work resources, bloggers - educational based things, things I’ll learn or become updated from - not so much banter.”
Ditto. I follow only a few organizations and a handful of people who don’t tweet often, but when they do, it is usually about something worth looking at.
but if I don’t read everything, I really might miss something important from someone and then they’ll be perturbed because I never said anything, ya know?
That’s what bugs me @VaBluebird (though it’s not the only thing) !
I have a very real disorder called FOMO (fear of missing out) and I feel like I have to read my whole Facebook and Twitter feed or I’ll miss something. It’s a problem. Fortunately, I’m a fast reader and skim over a lot of the cr$p. I sneak peaks all day long- and I have a demanding day job!
“My FB pet peeves are all the “I know you won’t post this, but …” memes, sayings, pseudo-facts, platitudes. Like, if you don’t repost theme you don’t love your mother, your children aren’t the most precious things in the world, you want people to die of cancer, hope cops get shot, whatever.”
This is my biggest FB gripe too. But I refuse to be shamed, frightened, or bullied into liking or reposting someone else’s stuff.
I log into FB once or twice almost every day. It’s my only link to my hometown and high school classmates, since no family members live there any more. I also like getting news of extended family members. But the causes, the junk mail, the political stuff, and the nonsense claiming to be fact, are all really getting tiresome.
I’ve noticed that people post the same sorts of stuff over and over again. I can with about 95% accuracy tell who is posting, without looking at the name, by a quick glance at the content. There is the friend who posts endless pictures of rich desserts she has made, the old high school acquaintance who posts either pictures of sexy, buff young men wearing very little clothing, or rescues dogs that had been tortured or starved, the young feminist who puts up 5 to 10 posts a day about strong and empowered women, a guy who posts every right-political screed, his left-wing counterpart, and so on. It never stops and seldom varies.
Not all of this stuff is bad, but it’s all so repetitious and thus so predictable…
If facebook would keep the newsfeed purely chronological, I’d be much happier. As it is, whatever algorithm they use can be irritating.
I find I have to manually select “most recent” to get a chronological news feed.
I like Facebook. It’s a great way to keep up with people who are far away. I have a huge family, and people are always friending me who I’ve never met but we know we’re related because of a shared, and rather ridiculous, last name. I’ll give them a try - unless or until they turn into crazies.
Someone sent me a friend request I had completely forgotten about. My old boyfriend from age 14. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That was my first thought. Then I though, what the heck, and friended him back. We have some interesting things in common. I moved far away from my old high school so it’s interesting to check in with some of those people. They are mostly a pretty far flung bunch.