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They should improve their UI, provide a real chronological timeline, stop harvesting user data, create a better way to organize and access historical photos, st

They should improve their UI, provide a real chronological timeline, stop harvesting user data, create a better way to organize and access historical photos, stop spamming people with phony notices, end deceptive ads and all sun-glass sales, and let ALL friends of users see ALL of their friend's posts again if they really wanted to make people "feel better". ಠ_ಠ

rubbingalcohol 7y ago
I would feel better if Facebook ceased to exist. Can they "test" that?
spookthesunset 7y ago
The big problem with a chronological timeline is that it doesn’t scale very well. It can quickly overwhelm you with mostly stuff you aren’t interested in. I dunno what the solution to this is. How it works now also annoys me because it often hides things/people I would be very interested in. But at the same time I don’t have time to look at everything. It is a tough problem and no matter what you do there are positives and negatives. No silver bullet.
- winternett 7y ago
  With a chronological time line you'd still have the ability to unfollow and follow users, which would eventually get you to a manageable chronological list... Facebook removed chronological order to posts so they can manipulate what is presented to users any time they want.
  - VRay 7y ago
    you can manually tell it to view recent posts first and get what you're looking for Of course, when you do that, you get overwhelmed with thousands of obnoxious reposted political memes, and if you unfollow the people posting them you miss out on important life events Facebook lets you make lists of friends and view posts from that list chronologically too, but it only gives a couple days' worth of posts from the lists, so that ends up being pretty useless too EDIT: I should note that it'll automatically go back to its own evil sorting algorithm pretty often, so you have to keep clicking on "Recent First" again and again

rubbingalcohol 7y ago

I would feel better if Facebook ceased to exist. Can they "test" that?

spookthesunset 7y ago

The big problem with a chronological timeline is that it doesn’t scale very well. It can quickly overwhelm you with mostly stuff you aren’t interested in. I dunno what the solution to this is. How it works now also annoys me because it often hides things/people I would be very interested in. But at the same time I don’t have time to look at everything. It is a tough problem and no matter what you do there are positives and negatives. No silver bullet.

winternett 7y ago
With a chronological time line you'd still have the ability to unfollow and follow users, which would eventually get you to a manageable chronological list... Facebook removed chronological order to posts so they can manipulate what is presented to users any time they want.
- VRay 7y ago
  you can manually tell it to view recent posts first and get what you're looking for Of course, when you do that, you get overwhelmed with thousands of obnoxious reposted political memes, and if you unfollow the people posting them you miss out on important life events Facebook lets you make lists of friends and view posts from that list chronologically too, but it only gives a couple days' worth of posts from the lists, so that ends up being pretty useless too EDIT: I should note that it'll automatically go back to its own evil sorting algorithm pretty often, so you have to keep clicking on "Recent First" again and again