Facebook isn't broken, I'm just not interesting

Medium.com's voting ring is capable of putting 4 posts on the homepage at the same time without tripping the circuits, impressive.

"Dear users: you're doing it wrong".<p>I don't think this is a very good answer. If the majority of your users think that your site isn't useful (and I'm not at all sure this is the case, although I can certainly identify with this sentiment) then you need to go back to the drawing board.

I think the disconnect is that Facebook sells itself as a way to stay in touch with all your fiends, when in fact, as we all know, it doesn't really work that way. Every change to the site seems to take is farther and farther from the ideal of staying in touch with everybody.<p>Personally, I seem to have it tuned fairly well right now. By keeping a lot of people on "Important Only" updates, I don't see the memes, cat pictures, and political crap unless it's noteworthy enough to generate more than a few comments. Yet I do see the prom pictures of their kids or other things that I actually care about because they do generate enough activity to trigger whatever the threshold is to be an important post.

While I generally agree with the post (after having also read the other FB-related post), I'd like to think that the reason I recently left FB (yet again) is that I was one of virtually 2 other people in my network posting interesting things to read or watch, rather than post nonsense like the majority.<p>Either I falsley think the content I linked to is, in fact, interesting or my FB friends aren't interesting...or, perhaps, there's just a disconnect between my friends and what I think is interesting. I know otherwise intelligent people who continously post rubbish.

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the 'The Facebook experiment has failed' article. It seems like just another case of people not knowing how to filter their wall feed.

You acknowledge that most people probably have similar problems; the stuff their friends are posting isn't interesting, and also acknowledge that you don't follow along with your friends' posts.<p>You're agreeing with the original post. That is a sign that the site is useless as is, except as an echo chamber for you to post things you are interested in but nobody else cares about.<p>You're posting running stuff, and there's millions of people who are interested in running stuff, but instead of those running posts finding other runners, they find your friends and family most of whom aren't interested.<p>That's the problem with Facebook. This is less of an issue on Twitter where it's normal for you to follow whomever you want, not just friends and family.