4 ms·
I second this. I knew facebook filtered the feed pretty heavily but I had no idea how bad it was until recently. A few weeks ago I met up with some old friends
by brd 12y ago
I second this. I knew facebook filtered the feed pretty heavily but I had no idea how bad it was until recently.
A few weeks ago I met up with some old friends and learned that a mutual friend was getting married. We're friends on facebook and she has been posting about her wedding day regularly and yet I had absolutely no idea it was happening because facebook decided for me that she was unimportant.
They really need a way to turn this aggressive filtering off. I use facebook specifically to keep in touch with wayward friends, I don't need a feed full of BS updates from people I speak with regularly.
- freehunter 12y agoI have plenty of friends on Facebook where occasionally one of their posts shows up on my news feed and I realize that I had completely forgotten I was Facebook friends with that person. Then I visit their profile and find out they're quite chatty, but it had been over a year since I saw something they had posted, without ever telling Facebook I didn't want to follow them. It's truly insane.
- mrpsbrk 12y agoI think the whole issue is that Facebook prioritizes the "addictive" nature of the feed. That is, their number 1 metric is clicking, so they have a very very narrow idea of what "engagement" means. But, as far as i see it, that is unavoidable...
- sconstantinides 12y agoI made a site with the goal of showing just important information about friends, but all of it: getnotably.com. Check it out and let me know if it solves your problem!
- lordcanyon 12y agoalthough that sums um what i want, it's just a program for a mobile phone but i don't use a mobile phone.
- glomph 12y agoIf they didn't filter it then it could be even more unlikely you would see your mutual friend was getting married. (unless you are willing to read literally all of your friends updates).