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>I stopped using Facebook when my friends started to express political views more than social content. Nearly every argument I hear that says "facebook newsfee

by basch 8y ago

>I stopped using Facebook when my friends started to express political views more than social content. Nearly every argument I hear that says "facebook newsfeed sucks" boils down to "the people you choose to follow share crappy shit." Unfollow them. Facebook is a tool, it works based on how YOU choose to configure it. If you follow the sites you like, instead of the sites and people you dont, facebook does work. You can hide sources you dont like. Im kind of rubbed the wrong way by "this thing doesnt work the way I want out of the box, but I also dont want it thinking for me." Facebook IS to blame for creating a tool, getting people to use it, getting people to like things, and THEN changing the rules for how those likes behave (becoming a folllow button.) Try creating a list, liking 100-200 quality sources, adding those sources to the list, unliking/unfollow them, and bookmark your list as your main facebook bookmark.

snowwrestler 8y ago
> Nearly every argument I hear that says "facebook newsfeed sucks" boils down to "the people you choose to follow share crappy shit." Unfollow them. Here is the failure of Facebook, right here. Facebook says that their mission is to connect people, but they've created a platform where all the incentives are for people to get into arguments and then disconnect from each other to stop the arguments. In general, people can disagree about things and still have productive, friendly relationships. But it's harder (not easier) to do that on Facebook than it is in real life... that's a major product failure IMO.
- basch 8y ago
  the failure is mixing news and photos. people subscribed to each other to see their status/away message and vacation/baby photos. then sharing/reposting "news" to your timeline became easier. its easier to press share than it is to create content. by virtue of "the time it takes to propogate something vs make something" sharing became the default, and by volume, most common behavior on facebook. I use facebook to follow news sources, like an ai driven feed reader, and I use messenger to stay connected to people. I dont stay connected to people by watching what they post to their timeline. In my post you replied to, I said it WAS a product failure, that they moved the goal post of what a like/wall/share was. If they had built NEW features instead of adapting old ones, this situation would be different. Instead they reappropriated the wall as the "share this article" space, and the like as the follow. Facebook f'd up by overlaying a twitter clone onto their existing product, instead of building it as an additional component/page/module/feed.

by basch 8y ago

snowwrestler 8y ago

> Nearly every argument I hear that says "facebook newsfeed sucks" boils down to "the people you choose to follow share crappy shit." Unfollow them. Here is the failure of Facebook, right here. Facebook says that their mission is to connect people, but they've created a platform where all the incentives are for people to get into arguments and then disconnect from each other to stop the arguments. In general, people can disagree about things and still have productive, friendly relationships. But it's harder (not easier) to do that on Facebook than it is in real life... that's a major product failure IMO.

basch 8y ago
the failure is mixing news and photos. people subscribed to each other to see their status/away message and vacation/baby photos. then sharing/reposting "news" to your timeline became easier. its easier to press share than it is to create content. by virtue of "the time it takes to propogate something vs make something" sharing became the default, and by volume, most common behavior on facebook. I use facebook to follow news sources, like an ai driven feed reader, and I use messenger to stay connected to people. I dont stay connected to people by watching what they post to their timeline. In my post you replied to, I said it WAS a product failure, that they moved the goal post of what a like/wall/share was. If they had built NEW features instead of adapting old ones, this situation would be different. Instead they reappropriated the wall as the "share this article" space, and the like as the follow. Facebook f'd up by overlaying a twitter clone onto their existing product, instead of building it as an additional component/page/module/feed.