Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

Post by gaius » Thu, Feb 01, 2018, 6:54 AM UTC

username223 wrote: post #125

btilly wrote: post #84

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Worse yet, do you know how frustrating it is to be told that there are no more updates available while you know that you a missing life events from friends that actually posted them. After a while you realize that there is no point in posting your own because they will similarly not show up for friends. Cutting back on FB has become ever easier over time.

> Worse yet, do you know how frustrating it is to be told that there are no more updates available while you know that you a missing life events from friends that actually posted them. Or trying to find something you saw in your feed, which then disappeared for no obvious reason. I can't decide whether I'm a pigeon in a Skinner box run by humans, or a human in one run by pigeons, but either way, the experience is unp…

Post by mancerayder » Thu, Feb 01, 2018, 7:06 AM UTC

elgenie wrote: post #188

oska wrote: post #186

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> Disclosure: I worked there for 8.5 years, including writing Facebook Chat. In my book this is equivalent to saying you worked for Philip Morris for 8.5 years and worked on campaigns to bring in new smokers.

Your book is poorly written: even accepting your premise, I didn’t work on the growth team.

Post by axaxs » Thu, Feb 01, 2018, 7:13 AM UTC

elgenie wrote: post #156

ComputerGuru wrote: post #78

I didn’t see anyone else mention this, but to me it is a problem of facebook’s own making. They drove personal content off the site when they pushed videos and pictures by “viral marketing” firms onto it. They replaced groups (inherently personal) with pages, then scrambled to try and bring groups back years later. They turned the wall to spam from various garbage apps that were given permission to crap all over it b…

So you think "the problem" is all the things that Facebook started doing when there were 10 million registered users that grew it to 1.4 billion daily actives? A problem that can be rectified by Facebook, literally 11 years after some of the things you talk about, tweaking news feed weights towards personal posts from friends and other changes to allow users to spend time on the site more efficiently is not a serious…

Post by kowdermeister » Thu, Feb 01, 2018, 7:30 AM UTC

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #100

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My wife and were 'in a relationship' on Facebook within a few months of meeting each other. Then we were 'married'. Even still, for the first four or so years that we had each other on FB, it wouldn't show me her posts. They just weren't in my feed, I'd scroll down so far I was seeing content from months ago, but I'd never see anything she'd posted that week. Eventually it took me telling FB I didn't want to see post…

Geeze, I had the EXACT same issue. I almost NEVER see stuff from my wife (even after I marked her stuff as something I want to see). I always see friends that I never interact with and their events that they're going to or all of the meme pages my friends like. But my wife's stuff? Not very much. I hate using Facebook. The only reason I haven't removed my account is because it's the only way to keep up with certain f…

Post by elgenie » Thu, Feb 01, 2018, 7:37 AM UTC

mancerayder wrote: post #193

elgenie wrote: post #188

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Your book is poorly written: even accepting your premise, I didn’t work on the growth team.

I think it's respectable that you gave a disclaimer that you worked there in a thread about Facebook's use value. It's a little unlikely that doing so wouldn't result in an accusation of bias, too. It certainly should not be the basis for an ad hominem against your response. So it brings me to, why mention it?