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Facebook's is compounded by the mysterious newsfeed algorithm - if you're infinite scrolling a limited set of items in chronological order it wouldn't be as bad

Facebook's is compounded by the mysterious newsfeed algorithm - if you're infinite scrolling a limited set of items in chronological order it wouldn't be as bad. But I've seen things in my newsfeed and then not been able to find them again if I accidentally closed or reloaded my tab. If you noted who posted/shared it you can find it on their profile, but if all you noticed was the headline or image on a shared item it might as well be gone forever once you lose your place in the feed. I wouldn't say that's the main reason I don't check my Facebook feed anymore, but it's one of them.

tontonius 7y ago
infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-) I agree with the problem of finding something again in a long, cryptically ordered list of several hundreds or thousands of items. Not sure a paginated facebook feed would solve that issue though
- wlesieutre 7y ago
  I mean limited in terms of quantity posted per day; my understanding of Facebook's system is that across all of my friends (or maybe even friends of friends?) there's a lot of stuff posted, and Facebook only picks a subset of to actually show me. I don't know how they decide which things appear in my newsfeed and I don't know what order they're in. Compared to Instagram where I see every single thing that someone I follow posts (might be because I follow so few people on it). If I want to go back and see one of the posts again, I scroll back in time and eventually find it. For losing posts on Facebook I’m not talking about trying to find something from a month ago, I’m talking about things that I swear I saw yesterday and now I can’t find it.
  - SiempreViernes 7y ago
    I often loose things I saw a minute ago by a misclick on a group page or something like that, and when I come back to the feed it’s just gone. Like, I follow some newspapers on fb, an often they only show up once per day, reload the feed and it’s vanished.
- nicoburns 7y ago
  > infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-) This is actually what facebook does when you're offline. When it runs out of content to show, it cycles round and shows you the same content again.
stjohnswarts 7y ago
Yep facebooks algorithm could be totally superceded by "I would like to see .... [ ] only friends [ ] mostly friends, some lists [ ] random [ ] don't care, use your AI/algorithm choose one of the above.

tontonius 7y ago

infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-) I agree with the problem of finding something again in a long, cryptically ordered list of several hundreds or thousands of items. Not sure a paginated facebook feed would solve that issue though

wlesieutre 7y ago
I mean limited in terms of quantity posted per day; my understanding of Facebook's system is that across all of my friends (or maybe even friends of friends?) there's a lot of stuff posted, and Facebook only picks a subset of to actually show me. I don't know how they decide which things appear in my newsfeed and I don't know what order they're in. Compared to Instagram where I see every single thing that someone I follow posts (might be because I follow so few people on it). If I want to go back and see one of the posts again, I scroll back in time and eventually find it. For losing posts on Facebook I’m not talking about trying to find something from a month ago, I’m talking about things that I swear I saw yesterday and now I can’t find it.
- SiempreViernes 7y ago
  I often loose things I saw a minute ago by a misclick on a group page or something like that, and when I come back to the feed it’s just gone. Like, I follow some newspapers on fb, an often they only show up once per day, reload the feed and it’s vanished.
nicoburns 7y ago
> infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-) This is actually what facebook does when you're offline. When it runs out of content to show, it cycles round and shows you the same content again.

stjohnswarts 7y ago

Yep facebooks algorithm could be totally superceded by "I would like to see .... [ ] only friends [ ] mostly friends, some lists [ ] random [ ] don't care, use your AI/algorithm choose one of the above.