What type of content would you prefer to see on Facebook?

I’ve had a few discussions with daily Facebook users who express frustration with what they see on Facebook. From their concerns and my limited experience, it appears that content breaks down into a few different categories:

- political
– life highlights: This seems to be interpreted by the people I have spoken with as bragging. They don’t feel good when seeing an endless stream of peoples’ highlight reels.
– complaining: For those who feel uncomfortable with the life highlight posts, the addition of complaints doesn’t seem to offset the brag. Seeing negative posts in their feed can trigger anxiety about their own lives.
– religious
– inspirational quotes: Usually a quote in creative font on an image. The people I spoke with expressed anger and resentment with these quotes. They interpret them as hypocritical and preachy.
– link to interesting article: The consensus seems to be that this is a strange place to post this type of content. There are other sources for this, and the links are usually selected as either a response to an ongoing feud or to justify decisions.

I’m sure there are other types of content that make up Facebook (and other social media). But after listening to peoples’ concerns about Facebook, I asked them what content they would like to see in their feed. They weren’t sure.

While I’m not a true Facebook user (have an account I hardly use), it got me thinking about what I would like to see on Facebook, and why. I am not sure what I would want to see either. And if I prefer to see some content over others, it raises some uncomfortable questions.

This also has me thinking about life and experience overall. Am I internally complaining about the content of my “feed”? Am I scrolling through the content, clicking “like”, wishing there was an “unlike” button, and ignoring the “posts” that I don’t want to see?

Back to the original question: If you are (or were) a Facebook (or other social media) user, what content would you prefer to see, and why?