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"They are optimizing for “engagement”" How else would they know which pages, friends, posts, you want to see the most?
by aminozuur 6y ago
"They are optimizing for “engagement”"
How else would they know which pages, friends, posts, you want to see the most?
- egypturnash 6y agoThey could just show you the stuff you’ve said to want to see, in chronological order? Nah. Too simple. Far too simple.
- polynomial 6y agoYou can choose to that as your preferred sort order in settings, but it will always revert back in a few days, so it's a constant cat and mouse game to switch it back.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoChrist, what a user-hostile platform FB is.
- polynomial 6y agoAnd yet its's optimized for engagement smh
- sudosysgen 6y agoThose most likely to lead to likes, and most likely to generate long comments.
- contrral 6y agoCounterpoints: - People will write long, impassioned screeds in response to the things they despise most. - People don't just view posts that are about things they hate/fear, they "like" and share them because they feel the need to approve of and disseminate every "exposé" of the "bad guys". Even though most of it is vacuous FUD or twisted misinformation that accomplishes no such "noble" goal.
- sudosysgen 6y agoI don't think it's a bad thing that things that people don't agree with are presented to them. As for the rest, I never argued for valuing sharing, and while those might generate likes they won't generate long comments unless they are at least slightly constructive.