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Facebook is working to adopt as many "social network features" as possible. That means that they replicate features at will to maintain their position at the ta
by fumar 10y ago
Facebook is working to adopt as many "social network features" as possible. That means that they replicate features at will to maintain their position at the table. Personally, I do see less up to date sharing from my friends. The new real-time constant update stream is from Snap and instagram.
The idea of posting an update (whatever it may be) to a personal thread that is then displayed to your network when an algo decides, removes the "true" sharing sensation. I would argue instagram has made similar updates (Fb company). I prefer the real-time non-adjusted update stream path. It feels more natural, if I miss something from 2 AM, that is fine. I wasn't there to experience it at that time (around that time). It takes away from the spontaneity of sharing and being exposed to shared content.
I imagine teenagers would feel this at an accentuated rate. Their lives revolve around friend groups at school, sports, hanging out. Seeing shared updates at non-related algo determined intervals would impact their FB experience and leave an "uncool" feeling.
- ikeyany 10y agoI really want your comment to receive more attention. A few years ago, Facebook got rid of the feature that displays your news feed by the most recent posts. Even when you insisted to sort by recent, they decided that you should instead view the most "recent" comments/likes, rather than the most recent posts. They hoped no one noticed.
- fumar 10y agoTwo reasons Facebook's data points to algo determined newsfeed is better; addictiveness based on time spent and interaction, more display ads. They can control the FB experience and show "relevant" ads because they create the relevancy by choosing what content to display around the ads. The real time newsfeed can't be controlled, humans uploads can't be predicted. More$$$ from advertisers by owning and crafting the story for every user every time.
- ikeyany 10y agoIt's mass social engineering, shaping how we interact on a primal level, with clicks/views as the guiding metric. And there's diddly squat the common man can do about it.