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I always find Facebook's example feed to be funny since it's a completely unrealistic depiction of what their site actually is for most users. Just quickly loo
by speedyapoc 11y ago
I always find Facebook's example feed to be funny since it's a completely unrealistic depiction of what their site actually is for most users.
Just quickly looking at the top few posts in my feed, I see someone celebrating their two year friendship with someone I don't know, one person sharing a link to a new airplane, four people sharing videos, one person liking a sponsored video, and finally one person updating their profile picture.
I wish I could see actual updates from people instead of being kept abreast as to what piece of third party content they've liked at some point in time, what third party content they're sharing, etc.
- Toenex 11y ago> I wish I could see actual updates from people instead of being kept abreast as to what piece of third party content they've liked at some point in time, what third party content they're sharing, etc. This nicely captures the problem. Facebook (and probably most social media systems - I'm looking at you LinkedIn) are primarily interested in keeping you up to date with Facebook via the medium that is your human relationships. So Facebook wants you to know what your friends did on Facebook today so that you might do that same Facebook thing. This increases Facebook interactions which in turn become more information to propagate to others on Facebook. In the limit there is no need for Facebook because all anyone is ever doing is Facebook.
- manigandham 11y agoHow is this unrealistic? This is exactly the kind of stuff my feed shows. The people you follow probably aren't posting any updates (that you like to see)... and sharing content is an update, that's what that person decided to post. Your feed is what you make it.
- NeutronBoy 11y agoEverytime I see someone complain that their feed is full of memes, junk, and chain posts, I think 'Maybe you should just remove that person from your Facebook?'.
- supernintendo 11y agoThe first thing I thought was, "I wonder how this will work with memes."
- seanalltogether 11y agoInteresting, when I go to facebook (which admittedly is not very often) I only see updates and photos posted by friends in my feed.