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"Facebook could start by realising that I'm not interested in Farmville updates " OTOH, should Facebook be "smart" about this, or should they just provide a bu

• notahacker 16y ago
  I think they should do both, in a better and more obvious way. Certainly, some level of filtering of the feed has alwaye existed, but 1997 Yahoo tried at search and 2004 Hotmail had rudimentary spam filters and reporting tools. Google admittedly didn't have to fight against strong network effects to grab market share there, but it was the ability to incrementally improve that made their product offering more compelling rather than anything staggeringly original. And Yahoo and Microsoft had a better starting position to make improvements had they realised the true value of the underlying data on their user behaviour... To be fair to Facebook's team, the feed does seem to have improved recently and not just because I've manually blocked Zynga apps. But with their data and talent there really shouldn't be any suggestion that a competitor starting from the ground up could better facilitate the social interaction they started off specialising in.