Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends
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#2Never forget that Facebook has "tweaked" its newsfeed to specifically make hundreds of thousands of people feel sad and depressed for days or months, just to see if they could. And then they bragged about how great they are in a published paper that violated all ethics and morals worldwide.
Why will I see less video, and more from friends? Because I won't be on facebook.
Edit: From FTA:
> But the other is a lot of the research that we've done and the research that's out there in the field and in academia that we've read suggests that online interacting with people is positively correlated with a lot of measures of well-being, whereas passively consuming media content online is less so.
They do their own research on users, by modifying their news feed and measuring their emotions with sentiment analysis. You are not just a product they sell, you are also a product they experiment on. It's not worth it.
Edit 2: On the secret psychological experiments that Facebook executes to torture your mind: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
The real kicker, is that by using Facebook they argue that you give consent to them to conduct unlimited psychological experiments on you in secret.
> It argued that its 1.28 billion monthly users gave blanket consent to the company’s research as a condition of using the service.
Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends
#3This just reinforces the idea that Facebook has long jumped the shark -- they think their role is to orchestrate your interactions with friends. Not looking forward to 'ostracism-as-a-service'...
Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends
#4If they wanted to put users in control they'd let us filter out all videos. Instead it's ranking algorithm knows best.
Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends
#5Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed?
Like we could choose chronological, controversial, event based, whatever, I'm sure they could be creative, some could be algorithms. They could keep the default they have now which most people wouldn't change. Then they could inject ads by whatever means they want and we could check them out or click on them or ignore them as we see fit and they could make a little money.
This isn't one of those "Why don't they just..." type posts where it's obvious why not. It's a serious question, like why can't they do this? I mean presumably there's some answer where they say that they have tested it and the current scheme increases engagement, or something like that.
That seems unconvincing though, clearly there's a problem here they are trying to address. It's a piece of software, can't they add some controls to how people use it?
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#6Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed? Like we could choose chronological, controversial, event based, whatever, I'm sure they could be creative, some could be algorithms. They could keep the default they have now which most people wouldn't change. Then they could inject ads by whatever means they want and we could check them out or click on them or ignore them as we see…
I remember back in 2007 there was a control panel for News Feed that looked almost like a mixing board with faders. There were several in a row with different icons above (relationship status, photos, etc) and you'd move each one up or down depending on which content you preferred to see and others you didn't care about.
My news feed got a lot better after tweaking that, but they soon did away with it.
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#7Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed? Like we could choose chronological, controversial, event based, whatever, I'm sure they could be creative, some could be algorithms. They could keep the default they have now which most people wouldn't change. Then they could inject ads by whatever means they want and we could check them out or click on them or ignore them as we see…
Giving options for users is a slippery slope to making their application hard to use/give less control to them. In its current state, I don't see any social media websites offering control of their feed. They want to provide the maximum revenue to themselves, which means driving engagement numbers and eye time.
I imagine the majority of people spend much more time when these algorithms are working, even if they're just idling scrolling. What they're trying to address is flukes in that algo -- they want to keep their pie and eat it too. They want the high engagement numbers and are trying to combat the negatives that are making headlines.
I'd definitely like to see a social media site that's more about intentional interactions versus a raw numbers game of trying to keep me on.
Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends
#8Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed? Like we could choose chronological, controversial, event based, whatever, I'm sure they could be creative, some could be algorithms. They could keep the default they have now which most people wouldn't change. Then they could inject ads by whatever means they want and we could check them out or click on them or ignore them as we see…
I don't think it's in Facebook's interest to lose control of how they make revenue.
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#9Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed? Like we could choose chronological, controversial, event based, whatever, I'm sure they could be creative, some could be algorithms. They could keep the default they have now which most people wouldn't change. Then they could inject ads by whatever means they want and we could check them out or click on them or ignore them as we see…
Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed?
It has to be the same for everybody; they have to maintain a consistent UX because it's harder to sell random reach to advertisers. Remember that you're not Facebook's customer, so this is a move to keep eyeballs from leaving.
Take away the tools that can be used for political manipulation and Facebook starts looking a lot more like Snap/IG/TWTR/some new thing.
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#10Why don't they just give us the ability to customize what we want to run on our feed? Like we could choose chronological, controversial, event based, whatever, I'm sure they could be creative, some could be algorithms. They could keep the default they have now which most people wouldn't change. Then they could inject ads by whatever means they want and we could check them out or click on them or ignore them as we see…
Don't they? I don't "like" almost any pages, and I don't "observe" most of my "friends". In my feed I see only actions of people that are important to me.