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The news feed is terrible. On Facebook or on Twitter. I don't like unfollowing people, but I have on occasion unfollowed people that post too often. For some re
by kapad 9y ago
The news feed is terrible. On Facebook or on Twitter. I don't like unfollowing people, but I have on occasion unfollowed people that post too often. For some reason, Facebook thinks I need to see all of these posts, and drowns out other stuff in my news feed. I've missed congratulating friends on getting married, having a kid, getting a degree or sending my condolences on the death of a loved one. It's terrible, that these people who post less often, but post only the bigger things in their lives get drowned out by Facebook's algorithms. I'd infact want it the other way around. The folks who post often should simply be treated as fillers.
Finally there's the bugs in facebook that randomly causes my feed to refresh. And on these refreshes, I'm shown an entirely new/different feed. Maybe Facebook thought they showed me a post, but the bug and auto page refreshes caused me to miss that certain post.
- corobo 9y agoThat refresh you describe is the only thing that’s made me angry at a website (technology) rather than a website’s content It was the straw that uninstalled the camel’s app for me too, the app would refresh itself whenever you switch to something else and come back I’m almost positive Facebook thinks I’ve successfully seen the post because it completely vanishes from then on and I have to visit the person/page’s profile to see it again
- TheKarateKid 9y agoWhat's just as frustrating is that this issue has existed for a few years now. I've submitted a few bug reports/feedback regarding it in detail, but Facebook listening to user feedback/bug reports is about as likely as Apple/Microsoft listening to anything their users have to say via an online submission.
- thirdsun 9y agoIf I understand you correctly you're suggesting to simply hide someone else's posts. However wouldn't that potentially lead to the very same outcome, as in missing an important event? What if Facebook decided the marriage of your frequent poster friend was the one post that had to disappear?
- Tepix 9y agoI think the theory is right, in practise it would have to depend on additional factors whether or not you get to see it. That said I'd rather have a strictly chronological feed of everything/everyone.
- Grue3 9y agoPresumably the frequent poster will post several times about their important event, so at least one of these will get through the filter.
- hateful 9y agoThe refresh is what made me stop using it. I would scroll through the feed, lose my place. Also, if I click a link and I want to share that post, it may be gone forever and I'll never find it again. The only reason I dealt with Facebooks nonsense is because it was a useful tool, but now it is no longer a useful tool.