Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
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Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
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Re: Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
#2We really just need RSS. Everyone on Facebook should get an RSS feed and you just subscribe to who you want to follow.
News publishers already have feeds. So you can mix in as you like to get NYTimes right next to Uncle Jim’s fakenews.
There’s no algorithm, just based on publishing order. Maybe mix in some flags that let you see if others have disliked things with that same URI.
We need more protocols and less platform.
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#3Does Facebook really need to take on this role of news publisher? I get that people are accustomed to it now, but wouldn't it be easier for everyone to undo this, let Facebook be the place where you go for the occasional family photos and local event updates, and let news be somewhere else? We don't need Facebook to be a newspaper at all, people were doing fine before it.
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#4I want to go to Facebook to keep connected with friends and family, not to see cringy memes and clickbait 'news' articles. Zuckerberg made the right decision to focus on users instead of publishers, and I think these changes will change Facebook for the better.
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#5I want to go to Facebook to keep connected with friends and family, not to see cringy memes and clickbait 'news' articles. Zuckerberg made the right decision to focus on users instead of publishers, and I think these changes will change Facebook for the better.
Unfortunately, a lot of the times it's friends and family that post these cringy memes.
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#6> Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
... or, at least, hurts sfchronicle.com ad revenue.
Re: Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
#7Does Facebook really need to take on this role of news publisher? I get that people are accustomed to it now, but wouldn't it be easier for everyone to undo this, let Facebook be the place where you go for the occasional family photos and local event updates, and let news be somewhere else? We don't need Facebook to be a newspaper at all, people were doing fine before it.
> Does Facebook really need to take on this role of news publisher?
Facebook did everything in their power to take online e traffic from news sites. The begged papers to host articles on Facebook, begging publishers to put that stupid like button on every page, or to use Facebook comments. And now that they have captured all the eyeballs, they are going stop showing legitimate news.
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#8We really just need RSS. Everyone on Facebook should get an RSS feed and you just subscribe to who you want to follow. News publishers already have feeds. So you can mix in as you like to get NYTimes right next to Uncle Jim’s fakenews. There’s no algorithm, just based on publishing order. Maybe mix in some flags that let you see if others have disliked things with that same URI. We need more protocols and less platfo…
We used to have RSS. Why did it not stick around?
When Google Reader was killed, my account was just a stressful pile of thousands of unread items. The occasional gem was drowned in the noise.
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#9Of course a news site owned by Hearst would say this. They’re probably going to see a pretty big decrease in all their social metrics.
Re: Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation
#10The sfchronicle no joke had a front page article yesterday with the title "Trump remarks may hurt him at the ballot box." What a joke. Were they living under a rock for all of 2016? We've seen time and time again that Trump's scandals do not hurt him with voters. This is a blatant lie written only because it's what their readers want to hear.
A little less sfchronicle in everybody's lives would be good for the world, not bad.