I don't put Facebook on my phone. My friends there are a close circle of trusted family and friends that I want to keep up with. But it's a dumpster fire.<p>My feed is clogged with ads, suggestions, thirst traps, quintuple posts, and spam. Any content from a friend or a page where I willingly gave consent, that's lost in the noise. And yet I persist in trying to follow along. I doomscroll repeatedly through the same posts (there's no way to mark everything as "read") and sometimes the landscape looks a little different, so it's definitely got its addictive hooks in me.<p>I try not to engage with posts that are not something I've subscribed to. If you comment on weird pages, you are likely to get in some drama or get a creepy friend request from a bot.<p>I don't fall for phishing emails or common scams elsewhere, but at least twice, I've fallen for a Facebook scam where someone impersonated/hacked a friend's account.<p>I feel like I don't spend much time on Facebook because of this, yet I'm collecting "Top Fan Badges" from little pages where I just "like" their every post.