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Why do all of these social media companies ruin feeds like that? It would be fine if there was a seperate tab for 'best'.. I want to see things as they're posted. No fancy algorithms.
Facebook pioneered this business model and it has worked very well for them financially. Even if you have millions of followers to your Facebook page, you can only reach a small percentage of them without paying Facebook.
Why do all of these social media companies ruin feeds like that? It would be fine if there was a seperate tab for 'best'.. I want to see things as they're posted. No fancy algorithms.
This may not be the kind of experience you want, but after all you aren't the customer here. You may not even be the product - you may just be a side cost of getting ads in front of the lowest common denominator consumer.
This makes sense. Gotta wean people off chronology to sell them the "best" ads.
I believe the algorithmic ordering is intended to optimize other variables such as "time on site," because if you stay longer they can show you more ads. It seems like the conspiracy stuff would be much harder to actually do, like manipulating the content to influence you to click on more ads.
Why do all of these social media companies ruin feeds like that? It would be fine if there was a seperate tab for 'best'.. I want to see things as they're posted. No fancy algorithms.
Because the majority of social media users subscribe to more people/companies posting more things than the user could ever possibly read. Rather than users being overwhelmed with noise, getting frustrated, and possibly logging in less, social media companies come up with a way to show them enough content to keep them engaged and happy (and visiting the site/using the app) as long as possible.
The sorting algorithm is for the benefit of facebook and advertisers - and not necessarily by making me spend more time on facebook.
Why do all of these social media companies ruin feeds like that? It would be fine if there was a seperate tab for 'best'.. I want to see things as they're posted. No fancy algorithms.
Reddit is Fun has a nice solution (though it's just an interface to reddit's core functionality): at the top of the screen you can select which ordering you want (time order, most points per time period, hotness).
Why do all of these social media companies ruin feeds like that? It would be fine if there was a seperate tab for 'best'.. I want to see things as they're posted. No fancy algorithms.
It increases the kind of engagement that results in ad clicks. There's no way to make an advert or sponsored celebrity 'post' travel through time, but you can make it 'better'. This may not be the kind of experience you want, but after all you aren't the customer here. You may not even be the product - you may just be a side cost of getting ads in front of the lowest common denominator consumer.
I really hope they have an option to switch it back to chronological. I tend to check Instagram at the end of the day and just scroll back until I see things from the previous day, then I know I've seen everything. I don't follow too many people so it only takes a few minutes.
I see every activity, including comments and even likes.
It's kind of odd seeing all frustrated comments about how it's just about ads and etc. Well, duh, they are a business, not a charity.
The only problem with it is if they disable an ability to switch back. But, again, I can see reasons for that. It might be that they ran some experiments and some that people switch to chronological and then they happen to be less engaged over the time because their chronological, raw feed happens to suck big time.
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It increases the kind of engagement that results in ad clicks. There's no way to make an advert or sponsored celebrity 'post' travel through time, but you can make it 'better'. This may not be the kind of experience you want, but after all you aren't the customer here. You may not even be the product - you may just be a side cost of getting ads in front of the lowest common denominator consumer.
Don't sponsored posts tend to get stickied at the top of feeds?
This makes sense. Gotta wean people off chronology to sell them the "best" ads.
Twitter has a chronological timeline* and still manages to show me relevant ads. *For Now
One of the two is clearly better at converting users to dollars.