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Noise vs signal ration. Despite all those nasty infliction of ads, Google still provide very important services. Ditto for Amazon. Amazon does show ads but it i
by mayankkaizen 4y ago
Noise vs signal ration. Despite all those nasty infliction of ads, Google still provide very important services. Ditto for Amazon. Amazon does show ads but it is aligned with their business model. I mean I am browsing for products and I get ads for products.
The same isn't true for Facebook. I've stopped using this 7 years ago and I didn't even miss it for one day. One day my wife was scrolling through FB feed and all I can see is ads after ads after promoted pages. She scrolled for like 5 minutes, encountered may be 2 posts from her acquaintance circle and then she closed the app. The boredom while browsing FB feed was visible in her eyes.
FB simply doesn't offer any value these days. Almost everyone I know has gradually stopped using FB. This is an app with very low signal to noise ratio.
- thevagrant 4y agoSomething was broken at Facebook for a long while. Before I stopped using it, my feed would show me content that had nothing to do with my social network. The algorithm was trying to keep my attention. My FB feed would not show me posts from friends, whom I knew posted something (by checking their profile manually). I think their internal kpi metrics meant staff sacrificed their user base by tuning for engagement in the short term. Once users realized they weren't seeing posts from their own social network they left. As each person left, FB had no choice but to fill a diminishing feed with crap. To the point where they forgot to feature genuine posts their users made over curated 'attention' content.