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I think there is another big problems with the "mini-Facebook" live feed in the top right corner which I haven't seen mentioned much: What is the usefulness of

I think there is another big problems with the "mini-Facebook" live feed in the top right corner which I haven't seen mentioned much: What is the usefulness of this information? Why am I supposed to care that College Acquaintance A commented on Person I Don't Know's photo? How is this useful to me? 80% of the items in the live feed are noise like this, and 15% of the remaining are items that I can see in the main feed itself. This, along with the Read/Watched/etc buttons just seem to lower the signal-to-noise ratio.

farlington 15y ago
> What is the usefulness of this information? My guess is that it's there for the sizable population of facebook users who check it compulsively. For a lot of people, the appearance of constant activity is going to be a lot more interesting than the appearance that nothing is happening, even if for only fifteen or twenty minutes. I can see this increasing 'engagement' a lot, and it's easy enough to ignore for people who find it annoying. And your optimal signal-to-noise ratio is still there in your news feed.
- cgranade 15y ago
  But it's bad for compulsive checkers, too, in that it doesn't let you peruse every item in order like the old News Feed design did. It's a ticker, and so far as I can tell, that means that when you miss an item it's gone.
  - farlington 15y ago
    You can still do that if your news feed is set to show "Recent Stories" and not "Top Stories". The mini sidebar is mostly stuff that hasn't been in the news feed for years, like when your friends comment on or like other friends' posts.