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I don’t know - how many posts is an individual meant to consume in a day? X friends + Y followed pages x Z average posts per day. What’s the baseline X for an

I don’t know - how many posts is an individual meant to consume in a day? X friends + Y followed pages x Z average posts per day. What’s the baseline X for an average user, 100? 300? What about Y pages liked / followed, another hundred? Plus if like half the feed is “A friend liked this post: “ you have even more content to consume that you didn’t even sign up for directly.

cat199 9y ago
yeah wow, it's almost like if FB let you store and categorize things in a chronologically ordered list, and filter posts based on customizable preferences, people might be able to manage their feed GASP... themselves!
- taneq 9y ago
  But then how would they know about all the highest-ranked paid/sponsored/promoted posts from Facebook's closest friends?
TuringNYC 9y ago
>> X friends + Y followed pages x Z average posts per day. Not sure how it works for you, but facebook feed dropped in quality about 9mo ago for me -- Without any change from my side, I usually only see "Close Friends" posts plus significant posts (high likes, live events) from all friends. I also see lots of repeats of posts I already saw earlier in the day or previous days. At first I thought, perhaps my friends have blocked me, but no -- I can see their posts if I search for them. Then I thought, perhaps you have to be mutual "Close" but even that was a no -- because I actually verified with others. All I can guess is i'm on the wrong side of some A/B test where you see the same old stuff and keep coming back hoping to see more. Except in my case, i've just stopped using it...not enough to look at on the "infinite" scroll. So for me it is more like X friends (* 0.05) + Y followed pages x Z average posts per day. I wish i could reset it somehow back to 2015 functionality.
- mistermann 9y ago
  I'm the same, I almost never see anything new in timeline except 2 or 3 people, some who I don't even care about.
- PeanutNore 9y ago
  I think I noticed the same change in my feed as well, but it's part of a lot of small changes over the past few years that have in general reduced the enjoyment I got from FB to the point where I deleted the apps from my phones and quit using it entirely. I've kept my account active because it's useful for getting in contact with people when I need to, but I never look at FB anymore without a very specific reason for doing so, and I leave as soon as I'm done.

cat199 9y ago

yeah wow, it's almost like if FB let you store and categorize things in a chronologically ordered list, and filter posts based on customizable preferences, people might be able to manage their feed GASP... themselves!

taneq 9y ago
But then how would they know about all the highest-ranked paid/sponsored/promoted posts from Facebook's closest friends?

TuringNYC 9y ago

>> X friends + Y followed pages x Z average posts per day. Not sure how it works for you, but facebook feed dropped in quality about 9mo ago for me -- Without any change from my side, I usually only see "Close Friends" posts plus significant posts (high likes, live events) from all friends. I also see lots of repeats of posts I already saw earlier in the day or previous days. At first I thought, perhaps my friends have blocked me, but no -- I can see their posts if I search for them. Then I thought, perhaps you have to be mutual "Close" but even that was a no -- because I actually verified with others. All I can guess is i'm on the wrong side of some A/B test where you see the same old stuff and keep coming back hoping to see more. Except in my case, i've just stopped using it...not enough to look at on the "infinite" scroll. So for me it is more like X friends (* 0.05) + Y followed pages x Z average posts per day. I wish i could reset it somehow back to 2015 functionality.

mistermann 9y ago
I'm the same, I almost never see anything new in timeline except 2 or 3 people, some who I don't even care about.
PeanutNore 9y ago
I think I noticed the same change in my feed as well, but it's part of a lot of small changes over the past few years that have in general reduced the enjoyment I got from FB to the point where I deleted the apps from my phones and quit using it entirely. I've kept my account active because it's useful for getting in contact with people when I need to, but I never look at FB anymore without a very specific reason for doing so, and I leave as soon as I'm done.