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I'm sure Facebook has tested it experimentally. But yeah I would have guessed posts from people that post infrequently tend to be marginally more interesting ou
by nerfhammer 9y ago
I'm sure Facebook has tested it experimentally. But yeah I would have guessed posts from people that post infrequently tend to be marginally more interesting out of some novelty effect.
Maybe it's feedback loops: people that post infrequently tend to have learned to do so because they made genuinely less interesting posts and got fewer engagements and ipso facto less psychological reward from posting to Facebook. So, they post less frequently. The algorithm notices that posting infrequently is a sign that your posts are less interesting ends up amplifying the effect, driving even fewer engagements to these people, and so on. It doesn't self-correct because the posts are genuinely less interesting, but the would-be posters are penalized disproportionately more than how relatively less interesting their posts are.
- tyingq 9y ago>I'm sure Facebook has tested it experimentally Probably, but with primary goals of ad clicks, prolonged FB time on site, etc. Worth noting that the old, unoptimized system would have worked fine for this case. Facebook's goals just don't align with visitor goals.
- nerfhammer 9y ago> Probably, but with primary goals of ad clicks, prolonged FB time on site, etc. > Facebook's goals just don't align with visitor goals. Well, obviously
- andrewstuart2 9y ago> Facebook's goals just don't align with visitor goals. Or rather, Facebook's goals are (or should be) to balance optimally between visitors' goals, and advertisers' goals such that profit is sustainable. They need people to stay on and return to the site in order to bring in advertisers. They also need advertisers' ads to get clicked to remain attractive and profitable.
- tyingq 9y agoI'd believe that if they had competition. They just really don't. I think they've figured out they can gut visitor concerns. Might change as their current demographic ages and dies off. Teens and college kids don't seem to care much about FB.
- icebraining 9y agoThat's not my experience. Though the ones I know use primarily the Messenger, which is harder to distort.
- eropple 9y agoAgreed - at least in my neck of the woods, the use patterns of people in their twenties with regards to Facebook seems to tilt heavily towards Messenger rather than the rest of the site. Events, too, but primarily Messenger. It has replaced SMS entirely.
- jacquesm 9y agoClassical case of 'what gets measured gets optimized'.
- aditya_maurya 9y agotrue that ..the last line of your comment shaped up in my mind too after reading peoples complaints.
- paulie_a 9y agoFacebook also has extremely creepy positive reinforcement for posting. "We've noticed you have posted two days in a row and people are responding". Thank you Facebook for being cult like