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"But what if there was a way to build an interest graph for you without you having to follow anyone? What if you could skip the long and painstaking intermediat
by swamp40 5y ago
"But what if there was a way to build an interest graph for you without you having to follow anyone? What if you could skip the long and painstaking intermediate step of assembling a social graph and just jump directly to the interest graph?...And what if the algorithm that pulled this off could also adjust to your evolving tastes in near real-time, without you having to actively tune it?"
I have to say, Facebook has this working well for me. Their "Suggested for you" posts are 99% interesting to me. I have no idea how they do it.
- dkarl 5y agoFacebook never worked that way for me, and I always assumed the explanation given by the article is the reason. The social connections I had on Facebook (family, old classmates, wife's friends, etc.) had virtually no overlapping interests with me. On Twitter I choose whom to follow, and on YouTube I choose which channels to subscribe to. The problem with Facebook for me was that it was too warped by social obligations. An old friend from high school sends me a friend request, and his parents have been talking with my parents about how he isn't doing great, eh, easiest to accept it. Oh, shit, they weren't kidding about him not doing great, and he's consoling himself with some weird ideas. Twitter for me is 98% non-personal. YouTube is completely impersonal. No social interaction == much better fit to my interests.