Dull Men's Club (on Facebook)

[g3org3y]

Probably says more about me than anything else, but on Facebook I've started getting constant recommendations/posts to do with this group over the last month or two. Seems a busy group actually - 1.3M members, multiple posts a day.

(There's also a Dull Women's Club as well I notice).

Mentioned it to a couple of colleagues (also in their 40s) and they said similar experience of late. Anyone else here been deemed potentially 'Dull' by the Facebook algorithm?

[Puggit]

Yep - I don't follow it but constantly getting updates, I notice a lot of my friends are reacting to the posts.

[Motorman74]

Yep - also regularly see posts despite not following it and regularly see friends reacting to them

[ajprice]

I've had a few too, from the men's and women's clubs.

[Puggit]

ajprice said:

I've had a few too, from the men's and women's clubs.

There's no judgement

[toon10]

Yeah, my algorithm seems to have picked up both the men's and womans dull clubs. Also seems to have picked up lots of video shorts on women in stockings too. Not sure where this stuff stems from. The algorithm is broken.

[imagineifyeswill]

I've noticed that I'm getting all the Dull Mens Club posts and also the women in stocking and tights shorts

[JimbobVFR]

toon10 said:

Yeah, my algorithm seems to have picked up both the men's and womans dull clubs. Also seems to have picked up lots of video shorts on women in stockings too. Not sure where this stuff stems from. The algorithm is broken.

Are you saying you're not a dull man that likes woman in stockings?

[Puggit]

I remember when my Facebook feed was only filled with my friends' posts.

Ahhhh, those were the days!

[toon10]

JimbobVFR said:

toon10 said:

Yeah, my algorithm seems to have picked up both the men's and womans dull clubs. Also seems to have picked up lots of video shorts on women in stockings too. Not sure where this stuff stems from. The algorithm is broken.

Are you saying you're not a dull man that likes woman in stockings?

Do you want the truth, or do you want the husband answer?

[CanAm]

I also had a link appear for The Dull Men's Club, probably because 2 of my FB Friends are members, one of whom is a lady (and far from dull) !

[VeeReihenmotor6]

Yes & 41 here. I find some of the topics on the blokes one mildly interesting i.e. in depth thought about random things like Excel Formula, why some things are engineered they way they are. The women's version of the dull club is just women posting selfies of themselves and no depth like the Men's club.

[john2443]

toon10 said:

Yeah, my algorithm seems to have picked up both the men's and womans dull clubs. Also seems to have picked up lots of video shorts on women in stockings too. Not sure where this stuff stems from. The algorithm is broken.

Me too!

Surely there's a Chrome extension or something that makes FB more useable? I did use FB Purity but it doesn't seem to make much difference these days.

What's the purpose of the women in stockings shorts? To get you to join their Only Fans?

[normalbloke]

Millipede blower. That is all..

[sidekickdmr]

Yep me too, out of the blue my feed is full of it for the last 2 weeks or so

[anonymous-user]

It's been a bit of a victim of it's own success and grown far too big. I had to remove it from FB because my feed was completely dominated by DMC posts, some of them brilliant but loads of them nonsense.

[stuartmmcfc]

I’m on it and regular post;)

[Granadier]

Puggit said:

I remember when my Facebook feed was only filled with my friends' posts.

Ahhhh, those were the days!

I find the default Facebook feed pretty much pointless, full of nonsense that I'm not interested in and haven't asked for. However, there is now a Feeds tab where you can choose to look at a Feed of just your friends' posts, or of groups you're a member of, or pages you follow. Swapping between those gives me less spam and more of what I'm interested in.

[Mont Blanc]

I saw a lot of posts for Dull Mens Club recently, and some of the stuff is actually really interesting, so I joined with the hope of seeing more interesting stuff

Puggit said:

I remember when my Facebook feed was only filled with my friends' posts.
Ahhhh, those were the days!

I rarely see anything posted by friends, because they rarely post anymore. The only friends stuff I see is from the 2 or 3 remaining 'look at me' people now in their 40's and 50's who still post about absolutely everything like it's still 2007. Holiday photos, new car, restaurant, pictures of their dinner, and so on... No one cares or comments on it. I have no idea why they still post.

Facebook is now, for me, a business directory and local news/information.

[Chocmonster]

I'm one of the females who are part of that club as we found it better than the woman's group.
I've even had posts accepted and published!