Nicole Carlsen

Update: It seems I was not the only one wanting to organize my feeds, Facebook is rumored to roll-out multiple feeds  on Friday, March 7, according to PR Daily. I’m excited to see how these changes will work and be received by the notoriously “scared of change” Facebook community.

I am finally blogging again and I hate to rejoin the blogging world with a gripe but I’m going to. Is it just me or is your Facebook feed beginning to look more like your spam filled email inbox of years past?

I love that my friends are passionate and want to share it but my god my Facebook feed is filled with petitions to sign, photos of abused animals, Pinterest boards and videos/photos that you shared from some page that apparently collects those things. And it’s not like they are all different, I can’t count how many times my friends have shared the story about the waiter in Houston who lost his jobs for refusing to serve a disrespectful table.  It’s a great story, don’t get me wrong, but I also saw it on the news and all over my Twitter feed.

I’m not saying I don’t enjoy some of the videos and photos. There are some great meme’s that people are finding and literally last week I watched this video and started balling like a baby and promptly made my boyfriend watch and got a chin quiver and a tear out of him.

There are many stories that I love reading and probably wouldn’t have discovered had a friend not shared it on Facebook … but it’s getting overwhelming.

I use Facebook and Twitter a bit differently. In my opinion Facebook is for friends/family/acquaintances/coworkers, etc and I want to keep up with what’s going on in their lives: kid and pet photos/life updates/engagements/weddings/new jobs, etc. I use Twitter as more of an industry outlet, I follow social media, news, industry experts, etc and share things a bit differently then I would on Facebook.

So my proposal is that Facebook find a home for these “spam” posts. I don’t want to get rid of them all together but can they have a home that doesn’t disrupt a post from an old high school classmate’s beautiful engagement photos?

Am I alone here?  Is your Facebook feed filled with more and more “spam”?

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