The Facebook Algorithm Mom Problem

Post by gruturo » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

chickenfries wrote: post #31

paulcnichols wrote: post #22

Honestly, if FB was just me and my mom I'd probably get more value out of the site. Smaller radius is better IMO.

Pruning my friends improved my experience, but they grow back over time as people rediscover you or you make new acquaintances. I wonder if you could make a game or website that forced you to prune your facebook friends down, perhaps by looking at your social graph and telling you that you haven't messaged with a person in x years or something, or that you've never even "liked" something they posted. Some heuristics…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 4:45 PM UTC

elixer wrote: post #61

frenchie4111 wrote: post #49

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Someone should make a browser extension that will automatically (or provides a button to quickly) load the cached version when a site is down Edit: I just made a super simple bookmarklet that does it: http://mikelyons.org/2017/06/12/Google-Cache-Javascript-Shor...

Perhaps this is what you are looking for: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-cache-brows...

Post by krisdol » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 4:47 PM UTC

ProblemFactory wrote: post #53

bad_user wrote: post #38

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> But wasn't the feature of making yourself a "brand page" and/or having "subscribers" (which don't count toward the 5,000 friend limit) supposed to mitigate this a bit? If you have a page, Facebook wants to milk you, so they've got this weird algorithm that pushes your posts to only a small fraction of the page's followers, expecting you to start "promoting" them. Basically they screwed "organic reach". Oh, and abou…

> If you have a page, Facebook wants to milk you, so they've got this weird algorithm that pushes your posts to only a small fraction of the page's followers, expecting you to start "promoting" them. While this does enable Facebook to force brands to buy advertising, it is also an user-friendly change. Nobody who I have spoken to about this thinks that "like/follow" = "I want to see everything they post" on Facebook.…

Post by SamBam » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #30

rigden33 wrote: post #27

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The problem he is referring to is not that facebook narrows down the audience based off of likes. His problem is that his mom, and consequently other family members, always immediately likes his posts regardless of the content which narrows the audience down to his family members instead of the intended audience. He wants Facebook to take into account that the person liking his post is his mom before narrowing down t…

But the content is not intended for his mom, so he shouldn't have targeted it to everybody.

Post by watwut » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 4:59 PM UTC

ProblemFactory wrote: post #53

bad_user wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But wasn't the feature of making yourself a "brand page" and/or having "subscribers" (which don't count toward the 5,000 friend limit) supposed to mitigate this a bit? If you have a page, Facebook wants to milk you, so they've got this weird algorithm that pushes your posts to only a small fraction of the page's followers, expecting you to start "promoting" them. Basically they screwed "organic reach". Oh, and abou…

> If you have a page, Facebook wants to milk you, so they've got this weird algorithm that pushes your posts to only a small fraction of the page's followers, expecting you to start "promoting" them. While this does enable Facebook to force brands to buy advertising, it is also an user-friendly change. Nobody who I have spoken to about this thinks that "like/follow" = "I want to see everything they post" on Facebook.…