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This might get me to browse a little bit more. I have about 1000 friends on Facebook but 60℅ of my feed is news from a small group of publishers (ESPN, The Oni

by habosa 10y ago

This might get me to browse a little bit more. I have about 1000 friends on Facebook but 60℅ of my feed is news from a small group of publishers (ESPN, The Onion, NYT) and ads.

Super_luigi 10y ago
Agree - If I want to learn more about Brexit I go to NYT, WSJ, etc. FB is for learning about old friends' whereabouts, new babies, etc. Wonder how this will affect the political discourse for the elections this year...
- omarchowdhury 10y ago
  But your friends are going to discuss current events, because that is what people do.
  - mrweasel 10y ago
    No, they're not. None of my friends that care about current events really use Facebook, but if I want a picture of a forklift, bacon, or anything else that was on Imgur last week, Facebook is right there for me. Honestly it's pretty hard do discus Facebook, what Facebook does, what it's used for and how people see it, because it's so different from person to person.
    - pcora 10y ago
      > No, they're not. None of my friends that care about current events really use Facebook you are really lucky
kalleboo 10y ago
Is that because your friends keep resharing posts from those publishers or because you're following the publishers themselves? Facebook already has tools to hide posts from certain friends or shares of links to certain publishers (click the disclosure arrow in the top right). I think the basis for all these "post selection algorithms" that people are continually outraged about is the fact that people are completely unwilling to prune their feeds. Then they get overwhelmed with crap posts and complain about how there's nothing interesting. Then Facebook/Twitter try to figure out what people want to see, and people complain they don't get to see everything.
- habosa 10y ago
  It's not reshares, it's from the publishers themselves. I must have 'Liked' them at some point. The thing is I don't want to prune those publishers because if I have to see any non-Friend posts I want to see it from them. But I just wish that real humans were weighted higher than another LeBron story by ESPN.
cannam 10y ago
Completely OT and I apologise, but I've just noticed that your "60%" doesn't use the percent sign but instead ℅, a symbol I'd never seen before that appears to be the abbreviation for "care of". I'm fascinated by that -- how did that get there? What kind of keyboard did you use?
- dvh 10y ago
  You don't want to know! https://xkcd.com/1530/ https://xkcd.com/1530/
- habosa 10y ago
  Huh good catch. Google Keyboard on Android has both symbols and they're only 4 keys apart. I hit the wrong one.

by habosa 10y ago

This might get me to browse a little bit more. I have about 1000 friends on Facebook but 60℅ of my feed is news from a small group of publishers (ESPN, The Onion, NYT) and ads.

Super_luigi 10y ago

Agree - If I want to learn more about Brexit I go to NYT, WSJ, etc. FB is for learning about old friends' whereabouts, new babies, etc. Wonder how this will affect the political discourse for the elections this year...

omarchowdhury 10y ago
But your friends are going to discuss current events, because that is what people do.
- mrweasel 10y ago
  No, they're not. None of my friends that care about current events really use Facebook, but if I want a picture of a forklift, bacon, or anything else that was on Imgur last week, Facebook is right there for me. Honestly it's pretty hard do discus Facebook, what Facebook does, what it's used for and how people see it, because it's so different from person to person.
  - pcora 10y ago
    > No, they're not. None of my friends that care about current events really use Facebook you are really lucky

kalleboo 10y ago

Is that because your friends keep resharing posts from those publishers or because you're following the publishers themselves? Facebook already has tools to hide posts from certain friends or shares of links to certain publishers (click the disclosure arrow in the top right). I think the basis for all these "post selection algorithms" that people are continually outraged about is the fact that people are completely unwilling to prune their feeds. Then they get overwhelmed with crap posts and complain about how there's nothing interesting. Then Facebook/Twitter try to figure out what people want to see, and people complain they don't get to see everything.

habosa 10y ago
It's not reshares, it's from the publishers themselves. I must have 'Liked' them at some point. The thing is I don't want to prune those publishers because if I have to see any non-Friend posts I want to see it from them. But I just wish that real humans were weighted higher than another LeBron story by ESPN.

cannam 10y ago

Completely OT and I apologise, but I've just noticed that your "60%" doesn't use the percent sign but instead ℅, a symbol I'd never seen before that appears to be the abbreviation for "care of". I'm fascinated by that -- how did that get there? What kind of keyboard did you use?

dvh 10y ago
You don't want to know! https://xkcd.com/1530/ https://xkcd.com/1530/
habosa 10y ago
Huh good catch. Google Keyboard on Android has both symbols and they're only 4 keys apart. I hit the wrong one.