I just want a date ordered list of everything my friends have posted. Is that too much to ask for?
Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
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> The core problem, IMO, is that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy. Right ... and if they're not careful here, they'll just go back to how FB was before the brands all moved in: people posting content that made each other angry or anxious. A FB feed full of people trolling one other and squabbling about politics in long comment threads m…
Wow, who are your friends? I regularly interact with people I'm not angry at, even on Facebook.
Well, studies have said social media increases anxiety, I suppose because people usually post highlights of their lives, on average people's reaction to those posts is jealousy and feeling like "Why is my life shit?"...
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#193I very much hope this isn't just words. The core problem, IMO, is that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy. I'm sure Facebook knows this. If they really mean it, they'll accept that they will make less money as a result of this change. It would be the right decision in the long term, but the short term will hurt.
Are clicks the majority of revenue for FB? An ad unit that fills a users screen for a few second as they scroll throughout the day every day is super super valuable to brand advertising. I think that’s ~$450 billion of the total ~$500 billion total annual global ad spend. To me browsing the fb feed is a lot like like flipping through tv channels used to be. Brand advertising loved that too. I’d think the More people…
How many people are aware that the list of interests directing Facebook ads are easily visible and editable?
Settings | Ads | Your Interests
It's really interesting to see the full scope of the interests FB has gathered over time. Some of them are pretty hilarious.
They have a seemingly huge ontology of every subject you could think of. If you methodically go through an remove every interest, the ads suddenly become very generic - stuff targeted to, say, age group and/or location. Since removing everything, and periodically clearing it all out, I generally only see stuff for things like real estate and car dealerships, which don't really mean much for me.
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Seriously. I get the argument that the brain has flaws that can be manipulated to some degree, and I think it is seriously worth considering, but HN has really jumped the shark when it comes to these conversations. To hear this forum tell it, everybody is powerlessly cowering beneath the lash of their electronic devices, completely unable to make any decisions about their usage.
The ugly truth is that while you may be very conscious of how you spend your time online and what you interact with, the majority of people simply is not, and many people are ill-equipped to even understand how they are being manipulated to scroll a bit more, play another game or vote for the wrong candidate.
The problem there being ? Apart from the (sofar unbeknownst to me) existence of a "wrong" candidate ?
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are clicks the majority of revenue for FB? An ad unit that fills a users screen for a few second as they scroll throughout the day every day is super super valuable to brand advertising. I think that’s ~$450 billion of the total ~$500 billion total annual global ad spend. To me browsing the fb feed is a lot like like flipping through tv channels used to be. Brand advertising loved that too. I’d think the More people…
How many people are aware that the list of interests directing Facebook ads are easily visible and editable? Settings | Ads | Your Interests It's really interesting to see the full scope of the interests FB has gathered over time. Some of them are pretty hilarious. They have a seemingly huge ontology of every subject you could think of. If you methodically go through an remove every interest, the ads suddenly become…
Generally people only consider ads that “don’t mean much to me” as ads. If they do mean something to someone they suddenly cease being ads to that person. It’s a weird thing.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The core problem, IMO, is that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy. Right ... and if they're not careful here, they'll just go back to how FB was before the brands all moved in: people posting content that made each other angry or anxious. A FB feed full of people trolling one other and squabbling about politics in long comment threads m…
Wow, who are your friends? I regularly interact with people I'm not angry at, even on Facebook.
I have a perfectly lovely set of friends, who often post lovely things.
But when I think back to all the “long comments” and “spark conversation” type posts, they’re not lovely. They are politics or other things that spark FB’s equivalent of a flame war.
So my fear is that using those things to indicate these posts should be more prominent is going to be a tricky thing for them to get right.
Getting a computer to decide between “has lots of comments because it’s a fight” and “has lots of comments because it’s useful and interesting” is an interesting challenge.
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#197Family share with nsa and cia... why not. It's always been very important, just like in KGB ?
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This, essentially, is Facebook's business model.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing... I pay to get access to my audience. I wish I only paid to get access to a new expanded audience, but I understand the reality of business. My main complaint is, people explicitly chose to follow my content and got used to seeing it... and now it's all gone. They still follow, but they don't see. Even if I pay, it's not guaranteed to hit the same audience I had before.
>My main complaint is, people explicitly chose to follow my content and got used to seeing it... and now it's all gone.
That was exactly my point : Facebook's business model is to encourage businesses to accumulate followers and to then charge them for communicating with those followers.
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#199Too late. Noone around my family and friends share nothing in Facebook for long time. In 2018, it’s probably the worst platform to connect to people. The best thing I did in 2017 was to permanently delete my Facebook account. Thankfully they now allow you to divorce with their app at least.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ugly truth is that while you may be very conscious of how you spend your time online and what you interact with, the majority of people simply is not, and many people are ill-equipped to even understand how they are being manipulated to scroll a bit more, play another game or vote for the wrong candidate.
The problem there being ? Apart from the (sofar unbeknownst to me) existence of a "wrong" candidate ?
I'm not going to explain to you why it matters in which direction societies evolve.
And yes, the 'wrong' candidate obviously can exist, for example the one that deceives the voter.