As if I don't have enough reasons to not use Facebook ...

... here's another one.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/facebook-testing-feature-could-forever-change-how-you-get-your-news

In theory, Facebook users should only be seeing posts in their news feeds from pages they've opted to follow. Anyone who's been annoyed by sponsored posts knows that's not entirely true, but the majority of the time, if a news article appears on a feed, it's because a user's friend, or a page the user follows, posted it. 

Now, as Filip Struhárik, editor and social media manager at Denník N, wrote in a Medium post on Monday, in six markets, Facebook is removing posts from users' main news feeds and relegating them (unbeknownst to the users) to the Explore page. Thanks to Explore, your main newsfeed—the source of everything from updates on your high school friends' babies to conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton—will become what Mashable writer Kerry Flynn calls a "battlefield of 'pay to play,' where publishers have to pony up the dough to get back into the News Feed." 

So far, those six markets include Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Bolivia, Guatemala and Cambodia. 

It's a nightmare for publishers that don't have the money to ransom their posts from the Explore page back into the main feed, but it also means individual users will have even less control over what appears in their feeds from the pages they follow. As Struhárik explains, users will still see content from their friends (and ads) on their main feed, but anything from pages they follow, including news sources, is in danger of being moved to Explore.