My Facebook Stream Is Becoming More Commercial Every Day

I’ve always been a fairly sparse user of Facebook. I mainly like to keep my account running to keep in touch with a few specific people, even though I’ve “befriended” many.

When I first signed up for and started using Facebook, I was about 10 years removed from high school, so naturally the first friend flux was a bunch of people that I hadn’t heard from for about 10 years, since high school.

Then the coworkers also became friends. Then many family members started using it.

I got used to watching the daily life streams of people that I didn’t really think I’d ever be in contact with again in my lifetime. It’s weird stuff. There’s nothing more interesting or disturbing than following the daily drama of somebody you have not talked to or seen for several years since high school.

Now, these days, the daily dramatics from people of past times has given way to a much more commercialized stream of information. I’ve started to “like” many business for many reasons, and now whenever I log into Facebook I’m basically seeing a feed that consists of the following:

• Some people that I haven’t known for a long time posting pictures of their babies that I’ll never see.
• Some people that I haven’t known for a long time bitching about daily life.
• Lot’s of new blog posts and new article announcements from many online publications.
• Lot’s of commercial and promotional stuff from local businesses.

Logging into Facebook is kinda like going to a high school reunion sponsored by all the businesses that have enticed me to “like” them on Facebook.

These days when I log in, it’s becoming more and more overrun by businesses and people with commercial intent, it doesn’t seem so much to be the friendly gathering ground that it used to be.

The more that I think about this, I should start focusing on the people or organizations that I really do want to hear from. If I did this, I would:

• Only be be friends on Facebook with people I currently know or socialize with, and family members.
• Only follow the Minnesota Twins and bands that I like to keep up on.

Yeah, I might do that.