First, let me mention that Facebook almost never shows me posts from people on my friends list. About 99% of what I see is stuff from pages.
Which is where the second thing comes in. Suddenly, without any warning, I started getting posts from recipe/cooking pages in my feed. I'm like WTF? I'm pretty sure no one hates cooking more than I do. Why is the algorithm suddenly showing me these posts?
I tried hiding the posts for thirty days, but it didn't help. More and more cooking/recipe posts from a variety of pages kept appearing.
I'm growling, "I can't see posts from my friends, but random cooking pages? That I get all the time."
Most of what appears in my feed isn't even from pages that I follow. Most of them have little suggestions about following these randos.
Which is a clue to what happened the other day. I had another post (ANOTHER!) from some page called Grandma's Recipes or something like that and I suddenly noticed there's no follow suggestion button. Curious, I click the dots and discover I'm already following this page.
What?
No, I am not. Unless I accidentally touched something while scrolling my phone.
I immediately unfollowed the page and will check any other cooking posts that pop up in my feed to see if I somehow am following that one, too.
But the question remains: Why did something cooking related turn up in my feed to begin with?
There's still a mystery to be solved.
ETA: I found another cooking page I was following! Once could have been an accident, but twice? I don't think so!
