If you're still using Facebook,

[MineralMan]

Don't just scroll past the clickbait site ads and other ads. Take the time to hide the ad, mark it irrelevant and hide all ads from that advertiser. If you do this every time you see some crap on your feed, pretty soon, you'll see a lot less of it. If you just scroll by, Facebook will keep showing you that crap.

Take control of your Facebook feed. Use the tools the site gives you to hide stuff you don't want to see. Don't just ignore it. Hiding all ads from any advertiser takes less than 10 seconds.

Just saying...

[Squinch]

1. If you're still using facebook, you are patronizing those who are gleefully aiding those who want

to destroy our Democracy. It doesn't matter a whit what you do with the ads. Your patronage makes them powerful.

[ZZenith]

2. Exactly this.

[MineralMan]

4. If you're not using Facebook, you don't need my post.

[Squinch]

7. No one "needs" any posts. You made your point and I made mine.

[redstatebluegirl]

16. You could say the same for Twitter, Instagram and the rest of them.

Most of the people I point this out to won't give up twitter for anything.

[Squinch]

17. I wouldn't disagree. It is possible to live life without any of them.

[sdfernando]

18. Its a great life without all that crap!

I don't use any of them. Dropped facecrap after Cambridge...ever used the others. Don't miss any of it!

[Hekate]

3. You have found out how to harness the beast & make it work for you

[MineralMan]

5. Up to a point, anyhow.

Eventually, you get rid of most of that stuff, but it takes some time.

More important is to make your feed invisible to everyone except your friends, and then choose your friends wisely. For example, if a friend frequently shares clickbait sites, hide the friend, too. Who needs friends who spam your feed?

[DBoon]

6. Isn't there a "fix Facebook" group on Facebook?

I'd rather the opposition to their many miserable policies be opposed in the open, using the forum THEY created, rather than just silently slinking away from Facebook.

A Progressives for Facebook Change group?

[MineralMan]

10. I don't know. I don't need any more groups though.

That much I do know.

[crazytown]

8. If you are still using Facebook you are an enabler,

adding to the data set so they can better direct and personalize their ads to the vunerable.

[MineralMan]

9. Not really. I use it to stay in touch with friends and family.

Beyond that, I don't use it.

[marlakay]

12. Same here

I have hid some ads but just ignore others thinking for every ad i say no to they will just send me more.

Are you saying that isn’t true? At some point they give up and leave you alone?

[Grammy23]

11. I have a couple of relatives who persist in posting pro tRump

material, ads, rah, rah, Uber patriotic stuff and all gung-ho for the military/flag. So the hide button works nicely since they are mainly reposting someone’s meme or ad. Works very nicely to sort out the stuff that makes my blood boil, while things I enjoy seeing are still there. Poof. No more tRump ads. It is rather empowering to know that I won’t be seeing that again or anything else from the person who created it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. I do that. Interestingly the ads now come in bunches once a month or so, instead of daily.

[iscooterliberally]

14. I shut down all my social media accounts a couple of years ago.

Then my boss got on everyone in the company about using it for work so I had to open another account. I have been doing what you have suggested, which is good advice. The other thing I did was to restrict my account so that only friends of friends can send me a friend request. Since my new account has no friends, I don't get any friend requests at all which is nice. Facebook really hates that, but I keep shutting them down. I only use it to see work related products. I use text and email for friends and family, or we just see each other face to face. There is so much to know on Facebook and yet so little of it is even worth knowing. We truly live in the age of disinformation.

[msongs]

15. 10 X more trump publicity on DU than I see on facebook. nt

[mokawanis]

19. I report every ad

and the reasons I select rarely have anything to do with the content of the ad. I may report an ad for cars as being sexually inappropriate and report an ad for food items as supporting a political candidate. The point is to get Shitbook to greatly reduce the number of ads I see and it works.