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> I have no mistakes that these features are probably loved by some, maybe even most, but more and more Count me in the camp that loves them. I don't want to

> I have no mistakes that these features are probably loved by some, maybe even most, but more and more Count me in the camp that loves them. I don't want to spend hours a day keeping up with social activity. Facebook does a great job of giving me a quick summary of everything going on in my friends' lives by sorting through all the drivel algorithmically.

PavlovsCat 10y ago
> Facebook does a great job of giving me a quick summary of everything going on in my friends' lives The only way you can actually know that is to compare the summary with the raw data. The only way to remain sure of it is to keep doing that.
- morgante 10y ago
  The "raw data" in this case is my friends' lives. Based on my (off-Facebook) interactions with them I remain confident that Facebook does a good job of keeping me up to date on their lives when I use it.
  - jheriko 10y ago
    i can tell you first hand that it does an awful job with my collection of facebook friends. it doesn't prioritise the people i care about most or even the things nearest to me... and more than once has absolutely polluted my feed with someone to the point i considered phoning them to explain why i was about to unfriend them. i'm not saying your experience is untrue... just that facebook haven't done a great job of this for everyone at all.
sgnelson 10y ago
"...summary of everything going on in my friends' lives by sorting through all the drivel algorithmically." Sounds like you really care a lot [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1g9PFtSCKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1g9PFtSCKw
danieldk 10y ago
In my experience, Facebook primarily shows me boring memes (probably because they get liked/shared a lot) and often buries generally interesting news (births, etc.). By the way, I believe that some filtering might be necessary. It seems that when I joined Facebook there were far fewer memes and 'folklore' posts (we have a nice word for that in Dutch: 'tegeltjeswijsheid'). But that would be a user-trained filter, which is not interesting to Facebook. So, I agree with both camps: we need filtering, but Facebook's filtering is rarely good, because it's not aligned with my interests.

PavlovsCat 10y ago

> Facebook does a great job of giving me a quick summary of everything going on in my friends' lives The only way you can actually know that is to compare the summary with the raw data. The only way to remain sure of it is to keep doing that.

morgante 10y ago
The "raw data" in this case is my friends' lives. Based on my (off-Facebook) interactions with them I remain confident that Facebook does a good job of keeping me up to date on their lives when I use it.
- jheriko 10y ago
  i can tell you first hand that it does an awful job with my collection of facebook friends. it doesn't prioritise the people i care about most or even the things nearest to me... and more than once has absolutely polluted my feed with someone to the point i considered phoning them to explain why i was about to unfriend them. i'm not saying your experience is untrue... just that facebook haven't done a great job of this for everyone at all.

sgnelson 10y ago

"...summary of everything going on in my friends' lives by sorting through all the drivel algorithmically." Sounds like you really care a lot [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1g9PFtSCKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1g9PFtSCKw

danieldk 10y ago

In my experience, Facebook primarily shows me boring memes (probably because they get liked/shared a lot) and often buries generally interesting news (births, etc.). By the way, I believe that some filtering might be necessary. It seems that when I joined Facebook there were far fewer memes and 'folklore' posts (we have a nice word for that in Dutch: 'tegeltjeswijsheid'). But that would be a user-trained filter, which is not interesting to Facebook. So, I agree with both camps: we need filtering, but Facebook's filtering is rarely good, because it's not aligned with my interests.