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>> Facebook does this weird thing were after someone I know recommends a video, my feed switches to recommended videos entirely until I click back to home This
by nocommandline 4y ago
>> Facebook does this weird thing were after someone I know recommends a video, my feed switches to recommended videos entirely until I click back to home
This switching to similar 'stuff' because you looked at one thing seems to be common on social media and my guess is that this is due to 'wrong' application of recommendation engines. Twitter, LinkedIn does it too.
While logged in to Twitter, you click a 'one-off' tweet and suddenly your timeline is filled with those types of tweets and those type of topics. If you go to your settings/topics, you will see that it is now populated with variations of that topic.
Same thing with LinkedIn. You view a job and your feed/job recommendation is now populated with those type of jobs.
Social media companies don't seem to be accounting for - oh, maybe I was just being curious about this tweet or this job or this company. It's especially bad for Twitter given that you already follow certain people so they have an idea of your interest