‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially

Post by reaperducer » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

krilly wrote: post #20

choward wrote: post #6

They kept sending me "do you know [person I probably don't know]" as notifications on my phone! This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago. One of the big annoyances in life is being notified or bugged about something I don't need to be notified about. This keeps getting worse with modern tech all the time which has slowly led me to stop using anything I don't have ful…

>This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago. Why not just disable notifications, or just uninstall the app without deleting your account? Facebook can still be of use to you without you being of use to it. I've long used Facebook only for messaging and managing events because it's an effective and ubiquitous platform for both of these things.

Post by Kaze404 » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

AlexandrB wrote: post #9

This quote from Zuckerberg is something else: > “We don’t view your experience with the product as a single-player game,” he says. Yes, in the short run, some users might benefit more than others from PYMK friending. But, he contends, all users will benefit if everyone they know winds up on Facebook. We should think of PYMK as kind of a “community tax policy,” he says. Or a redistribution of wealth. “If you’re ramped…

Post by hbosch » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 8:32 PM UTC

Yhippa wrote: post #3

Paywalled so I'll just barf my opinion about my feelings on that feature. I get recommended the most random people who are friends-of-friends I've never met. There have been so many bad suggestions that I assume they're all wrong. I guess everyone else had the complete opposite experience based on the article title

Post by reaperducer » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 8:34 PM UTC

Kaze404 wrote: post #23

AlexandrB wrote: post #9

This quote from Zuckerberg is something else: > “We don’t view your experience with the product as a single-player game,” he says. Yes, in the short run, some users might benefit more than others from PYMK friending. But, he contends, all users will benefit if everyone they know winds up on Facebook. We should think of PYMK as kind of a “community tax policy,” he says. Or a redistribution of wealth. “If you’re ramped…

I know this might be off topic but a billionaire making a comparison to wealth redistribution almost reads like a parody to me.

Post by wolco » Wed, Feb 26, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

anticensor wrote: post #16

ConsiderCrying wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only that applied to everyone. Most people will get ten crappy notifications with one good one and go "Oh, well, not too bad." I think I used the 'People You May Know' feature a bit when I first joined but, as time went on, it really just became "This one guy who once worked at the same place as you and maybe knows someone you know". These algorithms are very smart and that's their problem - they overestimate the…

A normal human can sustain relation with 40 relatives, 150 friends and 1000 acquittances. FB algos are (deliberately) tuned for twice those numbers.