
The spam and lack of genuine communication has become a major rason for many people to leave their social media profiles behind. I found an article that explains why you see so much irreverent garbage in your news feed.
Facebook has an algorithm called Edgerank that makes decisions on users content in an attempt to present the most relevant, worthy news to your feed. It fails miserably because people like to analyze patterns and use them to their advantage. Hence the kitten photos and sharing contests used to sell the most random products like SPAM for example.
Here's some professional insight from Jeroen Panjer via Medium.com
Facebook has an algorithm called Edgerank that makes decisions on users content in an attempt to present the most relevant, worthy news to your feed. It fails miserably because people like to analyze patterns and use them to their advantage. Hence the kitten photos and sharing contests used to sell the most random products like SPAM for example.
Here's some professional insight from Jeroen Panjer via Medium.com