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I can't help but feel these engineering challenges will always be spinning their wheels against human nature. It's your "friends" -- after all -- who are sharin

I can't help but feel these engineering challenges will always be spinning their wheels against human nature. It's your "friends" -- after all -- who are sharing these stories. I guess it's easier for Facebook to fix its algorithm than for most of us to fix our friends.

milcron 10y ago
You can also "like" pages and see content from non-friend organizations in your feed.
Spellman 10y ago
Yeah, my general policy is if someone consistently posts stuff like this, either lower their frequency in my Feed or Unfollow altogether. Similarly, see memes. Been tempted to remove if they also consistently post severely biased sources, but then I'm culturing my own isolation bubble which I regularly rail against, thus guilting myself into tolerating and trying to understand these individuals.
- citizenkeen 10y ago
  How do you lower someone's frequency in your feed?
  - tomschlick 10y ago
    https://www.facebook.com/help/745556738851537 https://www.facebook.com/help/745556738851537
- delecti 10y ago
  Before lowering someone's frequency or unfollowing I hide all content from certain sources. My feed is entirely clear of HuffPo and Buzzfeed (neither is worth seeing the rare good content for all the clickbait), among many many other sources. Someone only gets unfollowed if they still manage to keep finding new annoying websites to post clickbait from.
- amyjess 10y ago
  FYI, you can also block pages. It's how I got a lot of the Bernie Sanders spam out of my feed during the primary season, and I didn't even have to unfollow my friends to do that. Unfortunately, it didn't get all of it, because you can't block groups, so every time one of my friends shared a post from a Bernie group, I had to block the individual person who posted it to the group.
hx87 10y ago
Maybe there should be a feature to auto-unfriend someone if I thumbs down their posts a certain number & proportion of times?
notatoad 10y ago
Think of it like putting fruit instead of potato chips in the vending machines - you can't change the fact that people like potato chips, but you can make it easier for them to make healthy choices.
dwaltrip 10y ago
Human nature reacts to the environment. Change the environment (by reducing clickbait prevalence), and the observed behavior will change. Your last point hits the nail on the head. Changing core aspects of human nature is not really feasible, so we have to to modify the environment or context in some way to better accommodate those aspects of human nature.

milcron 10y ago

You can also "like" pages and see content from non-friend organizations in your feed.

Spellman 10y ago

Yeah, my general policy is if someone consistently posts stuff like this, either lower their frequency in my Feed or Unfollow altogether. Similarly, see memes. Been tempted to remove if they also consistently post severely biased sources, but then I'm culturing my own isolation bubble which I regularly rail against, thus guilting myself into tolerating and trying to understand these individuals.

citizenkeen 10y ago
How do you lower someone's frequency in your feed?
- tomschlick 10y ago
  https://www.facebook.com/help/745556738851537 https://www.facebook.com/help/745556738851537
delecti 10y ago
Before lowering someone's frequency or unfollowing I hide all content from certain sources. My feed is entirely clear of HuffPo and Buzzfeed (neither is worth seeing the rare good content for all the clickbait), among many many other sources. Someone only gets unfollowed if they still manage to keep finding new annoying websites to post clickbait from.
amyjess 10y ago
FYI, you can also block pages. It's how I got a lot of the Bernie Sanders spam out of my feed during the primary season, and I didn't even have to unfollow my friends to do that. Unfortunately, it didn't get all of it, because you can't block groups, so every time one of my friends shared a post from a Bernie group, I had to block the individual person who posted it to the group.

hx87 10y ago

Maybe there should be a feature to auto-unfriend someone if I thumbs down their posts a certain number & proportion of times?

notatoad 10y ago

Think of it like putting fruit instead of potato chips in the vending machines - you can't change the fact that people like potato chips, but you can make it easier for them to make healthy choices.

dwaltrip 10y ago

Human nature reacts to the environment. Change the environment (by reducing clickbait prevalence), and the observed behavior will change. Your last point hits the nail on the head. Changing core aspects of human nature is not really feasible, so we have to to modify the environment or context in some way to better accommodate those aspects of human nature.