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If you have spent any time on face­book you know that often you will see adver­tis­ing every oth­er post or even more.

In fact many peo­ple com­plain about all of the adver­tis­ing on face­book.

There is one viral “post” that peo­ple tend to share which basi­cal­ly states that in order to start see­ing more posts from your friends you need to copy and paste a state­ment about which they (show you) and then if you do this you will see a whole new feed with few­er adver­tise­ments and more posts from friends you may not have heard from in years.

Of course this is com­plete­ly false.

It does appear to work but what is real­ly hap­pen­ing is that alleged­ly when you post that infor­ma­tion in its text form (face­book) adver­tis­ing plat­form then resets your feed, (you are not free from adver­tis­ing) what is hap­pen­ing is that face­book uses a com­put­er to analyse your face­book feed, they do this so they can tar­get you and your friends with more adver­tis­ing.

So, it looks like it works but in real­i­ty it does not work.

The only way to reduce the amount of adver­tis­ing is to use that X in the top cor­ner of those adver­tise­ments.

You do this by not click­ing on the AD…

What this means is that when you see an AD, click on the X so that the AD goes away.

The more you do that the more con­tent you will see from your friends.

When you post that “viral” text post what you are doing is tar­get­ing your face­book feed and your ALL your face­book friends with more adver­tis­ing.

Yes, you might see less adver­tise­ments at first but in a few days both you and your friends that also copied this so called viral text, will start to see all new ads.

Do not fall for this fake text which they claim will help you “reclaim” your face­book feed because that is not what is hap­pen­ing at all.