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i have yet to meet anyone who wants the things they've 'liked' to show up in their friends feeds. it's a purely user-hostile feature that facebook insists upon

• seizethecheese 12y ago
  User hostile? If displaying liked content to friends increases engagement, what's wrong about that? What would a feed that wasn't optimized for engagement look like? Facebook would already be a dinosaur in that case. People go to Facebook to see the most relevant and engaging content, what your friends like seems like a great source for this!
  • zem 12y ago
    it's user-hostile insofar as no one wants their likes showing up in their friends' feeds. from a consumption point of view it makes little difference; you see content and interact with it. note that there is absolutely no way to opt out of this feature.
• snowwrestler 12y ago
  It would be purely user-hostile if all Facebook users feel the same way your sample of users does, but that's not necessarily true.
  • zem 12y ago
    fair point, "purely" is an exaggeration, but it is at least telling that not a single one of my friends actually wants this behaviour.