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Has that actually happened to you? I doubt it, especially if you've indicated she's your mother on Facebook. People who post rarely would show up more often whe
by natrius 14y ago
Has that actually happened to you? I doubt it, especially if you've indicated she's your mother on Facebook. People who post rarely would show up more often when they do post in any reasonable weighting scheme.
"Close" was a loaded word to use. Facebook knows how often you interact with someone's content, how often you view someone's profile, how closely connected your social network is with someone, etc. Facebook's algorithm is working for people, which I think is a valid counter to the folks who think all their posts should show up for all of their friends.
- lotharbot 14y ago> "Has that actually happened to you?" It has. Yes, all of the relevant family connections are listed (my parents, my 7 siblings, and myself form a complete graph[0].) It's not just my mother, either -- a few wedding photos of a family member, posted today, didn't show up in my main news feed (which I always set to chronological rather than top stories, and which I check several times per day.) The photos should have been at the "n hours ago" point in the list, but I only discovered them because I was searching for examples for this thread. (I thought the missing post from my mom was a better example, though.) FaceBook's algorithm seems to work for some people, particularly those with particular usage patterns. But its failure modes can be quite obnoxious. They provide some tools that allow some degree of fine-tuning, but even having manually set the "show me everything" options, certain content falls through the cracks. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_graph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_graph