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Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends

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Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends

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Post by officemonkey »

tzakrajs wrote: post #44
officemonkey wrote: post #38

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"Contagious" by Jonah Berger talks about how anger and anxiety makes people share memes. I find that Facebook and the organizations that use it are NOT interested in my mental health. They're interested in triggering my sharing response. I quit FB and my mental health improved. I don't mind using Goodreads because Amazon and I have the same goal: they want me to buy and read books, and guess what? So do I.

I also have experience a drop in my basal anxiety since cutting out Facebook. I also learned, since being gone for a month or so, that many of those people aren't really interested in talking with me if it takes leaving the Facebook ecosystem. They can stay. Good riddance to all of it.

It also turns out that group text messaging is included on your phone. So anyone you _really_ want to talk to is _always_ nearby.

Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends

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Post by jwong_ »

fogzen wrote: post #16

Not being in control of what I see is why I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I want to control what is in my feed, and I want it in chronological order. Twitter and Facebook make me feel passive and helpless. I use reddit because I’m in control: I only see what I subscribe to, and I can switch between popular and chronological.

Reddit's going that way though. I frequently like to browse subreddits in incognito mode. Reddit's now A/B testing a "feature" where they force certain sessions to log in, or else they can't see anything.

Profiles are now being transitioned to a social media profile, where it's more like a MySpace page. You can get around it for now (add "/overview" to the end of the URL), but it's default for a lot of users' profiles.

Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends

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Post by jwong_ »

fogzen wrote: post #26
skshogun wrote: post #25

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You can still switch between algorithmic and chronological order on Twitter. At least on their mobile website

Are you sure? I have “show best tweets first” turned off and my tweets are not in chronological order after signing in to check right now.

I also don't have this option.

Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends

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Post by giarc »

tzakrajs wrote: post #46
giarc wrote: post #37

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1.4 billion daily active users. Your use of the phrase "most people" is not in line with reality.

I don't believe those are real users after the crazy amounts of bots I saw during the US election.

I'm not sure how you could see enough bots to actually put a dent in the 1.4 billion user number. Maybe you suspect you saw 100, maybe even a 1000, maybe 100,000 bots. Which is 0.007% of their users.

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Post by dgellow »

mancerayder wrote: post #24
CPLX wrote: post #5

Why 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…

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 My answer is: The same reason Chrome took away the ability to stop video autoplay. The same reason the Roku apps are crippled so, fo…

> The same reason Chrome took away the ability to stop video autoplay

You have a flag for that: chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy

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Post by skshogun »

fogzen wrote: post #43
skshogun wrote: post #32

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From time to time, it shows 5 random older tweets on top. But everything else is in chronological order.

I have tweets out of chronological order 20-30+ tweets down from the top... I’m assuming it’s different for you because you check Twitter often? In either case the feed is most definitely not in chronological order, but determined by an opaque, secret algorithm.

I check Twitter maybe 5 times a day. "Algo ordered" tweets show if I won't check my feed for two days. I'm from Slovakia so maybe that's the reason - Twitter is testing different features in different countries. In fact, Slovakia has new FB feed for months now.

Re: Facebook's Adam Mosseri on Why You'll See Less Video, More from Friends

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Post by tzakrajs »

giarc wrote: post #54
tzakrajs wrote: post #46

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I don't believe those are real users after the crazy amounts of bots I saw during the US election.

I'm not sure how you could see enough bots to actually put a dent in the 1.4 billion user number. Maybe you suspect you saw 100, maybe even a 1000, maybe 100,000 bots. Which is 0.007% of their users.

My experience is just a small sample, like a thimbleful of water from a firehose, but it may be representative of the larger picture.
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