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As an American and former FB user I must admit that before I gave it up entirely, it was my primary channel for finding news. This is still true of many of my f
by acobster 10y ago
As an American and former FB user I must admit that before I gave it up entirely, it was my primary channel for finding news. This is still true of many of my friends and, I suspect, no small number of Americans.
But yeah.
- herbst 10y agothis is really strange to me honestly. From what i can tell (i avoid facebook as much as possbile) "News" on my feed are mostly just uplifting news style. Everything relevant and political has no place on facebook within my environment. And i dont consider myself sheltered.
- istorical 10y agoMany people use it as a link-sharing medium like others use Twitter.
- herbst 10y ago"we" do that too, just not for these kind of news. Everytime i see some of the hardliners posting something political it will be completely ignored, or at max liked by some other hardliners. If someone posts a article about vegan or animal rights or shit, thats the kind of stuff that goes viral in my circles.
- acobster 10y agoTypically how it went for me was I would see an emotionally charged headline in my feed from a website or blog with a palpable agenda, and then I would seek out a couple other, more fact-based articles covering the same story. But what I found was that initial "encounter" still set the tone for me, and also served as the prime metric of my engagement with Facebook. So its algorithms learned pretty quickly that I "liked" stories like that, and that drew more people of like mind, but whom I didn't really talk to face-to-face, into my circle. Not sure how characteristic that is for folks, but that's how I found myself consuming news eventually, and a big part of why I quit it. Oh, it was strange all right.