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This might get me to browse a little bit more. I have about 1000 friends on Facebook but 60℅ of my feed is news from a small group of publishers (ESPN, The Onion, NYT) and ads.
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Agree - If I want to learn more about Brexit I go to NYT, WSJ, etc. FB is for learning about old friends' whereabouts, new babies, etc. Wonder how this will affect the political discourse for the elections this year...
But your friends are going to discuss current events, because that is what people do.
Honestly it's pretty hard do discus Facebook, what Facebook does, what it's used for and how people see it, because it's so different from person to person.
All I want from facebook is a time-ordered list of everything all my friends post. No filtering, no reordering by 'importance', no weighting by how often I 'like' or respond. No "you clicked off the page and back, we're gonna show you different stuff!". Just a simple time-ordered list. Apparently this desire is wrong.
Because it's not profitable.
I guess they need to do something to increase engagement because - anecdotally, yes - the amount of sharing and engagement in my feed has dropped dramatically in recent years. A rough guess would be ~3/4 of the content I see now are just likes/reactions and comments my friends made on other content (usually articles or memes). I'm sure most of my friends have no idea I'm seeing this, and if they did they would probab…
Yeah. When you are "friends" with your grandmother, boss, Mary from elementary school and your ex's mother you won't share that much. And those who will share anything in that kind of environment are the people you don't want to hear from ... Yes, you can group your friends and just share with some of them, but who has time for that? I'm even hesitant to write anything in semi-open groups as I'm not sure if what I wr…
It's interesting that facebook got it initially right, and NEVER implemented 'who's viewed your profile/picture' - as they know that this (possibility of others seeing our actions) would greatly reduce our actions/viewing (us fearing it being visible).
WHILE now, they're not getting it right and publish our actions (likes/comments) like a mad spammer.
It looks like they crossed the border while playing with our curiosity what-others-do, but forgotten that this means, that our actions need to be revealed to others also which will make us reluctant the moment we understand implications.
Snow ball effect to come?
As someone who runs a niche news site, it's hard to see the point focusing on running a Facebook page anymore. We kind of go through the motions to keep up with appearances, but Facebook is less than 5% of our total overall traffic, and 95% of that portion is all from individuals sharing our content, not from our page directly. It's just impossible to "bid" on traffic via Facebook and win out over companies that have…
Not my experience at all. Also, have you seen their hyper-local ad-targeting options? As in, draw circles around neighborhoods, then choose "parents" who are interested in "children's clothing"?
You can easily reach thousands of people with a $5/day budget. They'll even provide the stock photography for free.
All I want from facebook is a time-ordered list of everything all my friends post. No filtering, no reordering by 'importance', no weighting by how often I 'like' or respond. No "you clicked off the page and back, we're gonna show you different stuff!". Just a simple time-ordered list. Apparently this desire is wrong.
Today people do not even mention it anymore. Wether i meet new people or when i connect with old friends. Facebook disappeared from my life as quickly as it came in.
Do HN people still use Facebook?
All I want from facebook is a time-ordered list of everything all my friends post. No filtering, no reordering by 'importance', no weighting by how often I 'like' or respond. No "you clicked off the page and back, we're gonna show you different stuff!". Just a simple time-ordered list. Apparently this desire is wrong.