In my experience this problem is easily solved if you simply unfollow ~95% of your friends. You can mass unfollow relatively easily from the News Feed Preferences page in Settings. Ever since doing this, my Facebook timeline has had a high signal/noise ratio—I’m glad to encounter something like 85% of posts. Also, since this only produces ~5-20 minutes of reading/day, it’s easy to avoid spending lots of time on the site.
I did actually unfollow ~95% of my friends once but then found myself in that situation where suddenly Facebook became interesting again I was checking it more often. I recommend the opposite and follow as many friends from high school and work as possible (assuming you don’t work at a cool place).
Huh, 95% is quite extreme. But I realise this probably also solves the problem whereby if the people I’m interested in comment on *someone else’s* wall, I still get to see it. I’ll try this out next week, thx.
(I don’t get to be confident I’ve seen 100% of all the interesting people’s good content though, the news feed is fickle and not exhaustive.)
In my experience this problem is easily solved if you simply unfollow ~95% of your friends. You can mass unfollow relatively easily from the News Feed Preferences page in Settings. Ever since doing this, my Facebook timeline has had a high signal/noise ratio—I’m glad to encounter something like 85% of posts. Also, since this only produces ~5-20 minutes of reading/day, it’s easy to avoid spending lots of time on the site.
I did actually unfollow ~95% of my friends once but then found myself in that situation where suddenly Facebook became interesting again I was checking it more often. I recommend the opposite and follow as many friends from high school and work as possible (assuming you don’t work at a cool place).
Either way I’ll still only check it in a 2 hour window on Saturdays, so I feel safe trying it out.
Huh, 95% is quite extreme. But I realise this probably also solves the problem whereby if the people I’m interested in comment on *someone else’s* wall, I still get to see it. I’ll try this out next week, thx.
(I don’t get to be confident I’ve seen 100% of all the interesting people’s good content though, the news feed is fickle and not exhaustive.)
Not certain, but I think when your news feed becomes sparse enough it might actually become exhaustive.
My impression is that sparse newsfeeds tend to start doing things you don’t want.