Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by CodeCube » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:07 PM UTC

tn_ wrote: post #12

This is a chance before the U.S mid-terms for them to prove to the public they've learned from their mistakes.. 1). prevent the spread of fake news.. they need a better solution than the user-tagging bs if an article is valid or not. there was a scientologist that had an account that wasn't active for 5+ years, that started posting how puerto rico wasn't that bad when the storm first hit. why is this account not bein…

I think "fake accounts" is definitely a problem ... however, don't think it's the true issue. They should take a note from the financial industry, and self-impose more stringent KYC and content regulations for those posting political ads.

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by NicoJuicy » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:09 PM UTC

I wonder if the cause really is the news feed. What if it was the first decline ever and then they made some quick algorithm changes.

Then they went public with it, before releasing the numbers

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by firasd » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:10 PM UTC

From my readings, something Facebook has been struggling with for a couple years is getting people to post more personal updates.

Thus their Newsfeed changes de-prioritizing articles, and thus (I figure) their experiments such as showing short posts in large font sizes, and enabling MySpace-like gradient backgrounds on text posts...

This dynamic makes me recall something: Anyone remember how back in the day (like 2006) Facebook had a feature called 'Wall-to-Wall' conversations? You would go to a friend's profile and just write a message, they would go to your 'wall' and reply, and mutual friends could see the conversation.

These days between the Newsfeed, comments on posts, and Messenger, the only reason I would post on another friend's profile is to wish them a happy birthday. That whole ethos of just having informal personal conversations with college friends on Facebook is gone.

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by spyspy » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:11 PM UTC

perseusprime11 wrote: post #19

The title makes it seem like the growth slowed after the questions on societal impact were raised. I think the growth stalled years ago and has been declining even before the questions were raised.

If that was the case, FB has been lying on every single earnings release since they went public, which seems unlikely.

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by tanilama » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:12 PM UTC

Firebrand wrote: post #30

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter usage are all down. People are just spending less time on social media apps for some reasons these days. https://www.similarweb.com/blog/social-media-usage

That is interesting. Too much noise , too much distraction?

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by matwood » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:13 PM UTC

Since the newsfeed changes I noticed that I spent a bit more time on my FB feed. Normally I would see one of those idiotic posts, and wonder WTF was I doing on the site. Now I actually see stuff from friends (pics and stories), and I linger a bit more to see what's going on. Clearly I'm not the real FB demographic though.

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by gonehome » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:14 PM UTC

firasd wrote: post #33

From my readings, something Facebook has been struggling with for a couple years is getting people to post more personal updates. Thus their Newsfeed changes de-prioritizing articles, and thus (I figure) their experiments such as showing short posts in large font sizes, and enabling MySpace-like gradient backgrounds on text posts... This dynamic makes me recall something: Anyone remember how back in the day (like 200…

That was prior to chat though, and more of a desperate attempt to chat in an interface that didn't do a good job supporting it.

When chat and then messenger came along there was no need to do that anymore.

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by jsemrau » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:15 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #27

pfarnsworth wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But in the 90s we were all watching 4-6 hrs of TV a day.

It was good family TV though! Like Family Matters and Full House!

...and no need to be stressed if your comment will receive "likes"

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #27

pfarnsworth wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But in the 90s we were all watching 4-6 hrs of TV a day.

It was good family TV though! Like Family Matters and Full House!

If you enjoyed Full House you'll love Fuller House on Netflix.