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Presumably IG is optimizing for something different than what you as a user would be optimizing for. Possible candidates would be “engagement” or sad impression
by baddox 7y ago
Presumably IG is optimizing for something different than what you as a user would be optimizing for. Possible candidates would be “engagement” or sad impressions or clicks. As a user you probably don’t care to maximize how many ads you see or even how much you use the app. You just want to see things that interest you. And of course there’s absolutely no reason why IG would optimize for that.
- nightski 7y agoYou may or may not be right. I don't use instagram because of this. But how could they possibly know how relevant the data is to even their model since they do not even collect that data in the first place?
- baddox 7y agoWell, as others have noted, apparently they do have some affordance for that. But in general, the argument "why don't they collect data X to see if it's relevant to their goals" could be applied to literally any possible data X. Of course intuition must be used to focus data collection efforts.