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If only that applied to everyone. Most people will get ten crappy notifications with one good one and go "Oh, well, not too bad." I think I used the 'People You
by ConsiderCrying 7y ago
If only that applied to everyone. Most people will get ten crappy notifications with one good one and go "Oh, well, not too bad." I think I used the 'People You May Know' feature a bit when I first joined but, as time went on, it really just became "This one guy who once worked at the same place as you and maybe knows someone you know". These algorithms are very smart and that's their problem - they overestimate the number of connections an average person makes.
- anticensor 7y agoA normal human can sustain relation with 40 relatives, 150 friends and 1000 acquittances. FB algos are (deliberately) tuned for twice those numbers.
- wolco 7y agoI understand your point but honestly humans are varied. Some can handle more some less. People self regulate.
- r00fus 7y agoI can tell you my kids' school is now driving a program to improve what I like to call "digital skepticism" (defense against dark arts?) - these are elementary school kids I think Facebook's tactics were a landgrab before the global populace starts to build an antibody to pervasive advertising/spam/surveillance. Clearly this needs to be bolstered by legislation/regulation.
- wh1t3n01s3 7y agoA good % of those were clearly people you are not friend with who had simply looked @ your profile. The fb algorithm chooses the ones that rarely log, to receive those as notifications. So you get addicted. Example: ‘that woman/man has probably looked @ my profile, I need to open the app and see whe she/he is’ I quitted too, what a wise choice!