Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed
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Re: Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed
#2Worth reading the entire article, it's a great, if depressing read. I seriously wonder Facebook is up to the challenge here - they made algorithmic changes to make the news feed a better place and it very obviously failed. And yet they haven't changed a thing in reaction. Was anyone even looking?
It all feels incredibly reactionary: make a change to answer your critics and then forget all about it until it becomes an issue again.
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#3Long time ago, my facebook newsfeed was full of my friends' sharing, it's been very useful place for us to keep friends update. But now, it's a different place. It's a place for ads, for livestream, for real "social" stuffs, but most of them is useless to me for what i use facebook for.
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#4> livestream
Watching very closely to see how they handle this.
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#5Long time ago, my facebook newsfeed was full of my friends' sharing, it's been very useful place for us to keep friends update. But now, it's a different place. It's a place for ads, for livestream, for real "social" stuffs, but most of them is useless to me for what i use facebook for.
The Facebook news feed is dead to anyone but trolls, at least in my anecdotal experience.
Facebook is only useful for its yellow pages function. Unfortunately that alone is enough to keep my social circle on Facebook. It’s just really hard to break away, because social circles consists of people with different social circles, and not everyone is going to replace Facebook with the samething, and then everyone is still on Facebook.
Maybe e-mail could be the core of the next generation yellow pages? It’s the only thing everyone has.
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#6If the top sites were nytimes, new yorker and bbc you would be very happy right? ;)
Re: Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed
#7That’s why I no longer participate in Facebook other than their marketplace. I also turn off retweets on Twitter. I want to see what my friends have to say, not what they share. Shared content is either garbage, propaganda, or news which I get elsewhere.
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#8Hey Mr. Zuckerberg,
Send me back my friends list, it's how facebook originated. And if you continue down this road.
It's how someone else might take over.
It's just common sense.
With friendly regards,
A facebook reader ( not a user anymore, since i don't post anything on it)
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#9I'd love to see companies that use an algorithm to create "feeds" also release a full explanation on how the algorithm works. I prefer a chronological feeds mostly because then I know I'm not being manipulated by an algorithm. Making in transparent would give me confidence in it.
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#10Angry? It makes you angry but that doesn't mean it's angry. Just like hate speech that causes you to hate but isn't necessarily motivated by hatred.