There's almost universal reporting that Facebook has alienated/angered its users... but has it?

I mean I have a lot of fairly politically/media addicted friends and my FB feed seems largely absent of anything approaching that

Media orgs and the govt might like to think people are going to get angry at FB... I just think is a bit of a fantasy.

It might actually turn out that FB is better without news - actually about connecting & sharing personal stuff rather than "this news is what I am angry about"

Also it is kind of instructive that the big thing yesterday was about making sure public/community pages were put back on, not news sites.

So the anger was about BOM and health site, not news.

So ok, FB cleans up the blocks and brings back the health sites etc and everyone is like, cool glad that problem is solved...
... so what was this about news sites?

And tbh the fact that this has blocked Sky News and its videos of lies and hate that have been spread far and wide...

Well you gotta say that is a big one for the plus column.

Anyway, I just am a bit scarred from decades of thinking "well this will annoy people" and reading lots of coverage showing how "this will have annoyed people" and finding out that well... they weren't really that annoyed.

(I also suspect FB has a pretty good idea of what level of annoyance its users will tolerate - not the least because it is very good at annoying its users for many many years)