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Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

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Re: Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

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The FB feed has been terrible since it changed from a chronological list. Doubt this will improve anything.

If you have Pages which you really like, you can emphasize them with See First as the press release notes:

> Can people still see posts from the Pages they follow at the top of News Feed?

> Yes. People who want to see more posts from Pages they follow can choose See First in News Feed Preferences to make sure they always see posts from their favorite Pages

Re: Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

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I've unfollowed everyone. My feed only shows past memories. I love my feed. I highly recommend it.

Have you ever considered that you might be narcissistic? Why on earth would you want to go on social media only to view self centred experiences?

To have access to messenger to keep in touch for the people that are hooked on FB. Killing the feed has helped me stop wasting time mindlessly scrolling FB. Sorry, the memories comment wasn't meant to show narcissism but it's honestly the only thing that appears.

Re: Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

#24

Josh Marshall just now: "Announcement to publishers who reshaped business models around Facebook. Bye." https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/951615904760172545

If it's bad for journalists and advertisers then it's good for users.

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I've unfollowed everyone. My feed only shows past memories. I love my feed. I highly recommend it.

Sounds like Facebook, and indeed the internet, is an unneccesary middleman for you.

I thought so too at first but note that there is a distinction between unfollow and unfriend.

See their response to a sibling of yours. They still use fb to keep in touch with people, just not have them on the newsfeed.

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The FB feed has been terrible since it changed from a chronological list. Doubt this will improve anything.

Unless you have a small number of FB contacts (AKA “friends”) chrono is probably rapidly overwhelmed. I wanted chrono too, but it’s just too much. OTOH it’s absurd that if you want to see again that post you saw last week — or this morning! — you probably can’t find it. That can be true in the HN firehouse too though sometimes you can dredge it out of your browser history. Good luck trying that w/FB My gf works on th…

> OTOH it’s absurd that if you want to see again that post you saw last week — or this morning! — you probably can’t find it.

Try 2 seconds ago. Open facebook, browse, start to close facebook, see something interesting, but it's too late the tab is closing, oh well, re-open facebook, too bad it's gone forever you'll never see it again.

Re: Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

#27

Josh Marshall just now: "Announcement to publishers who reshaped business models around Facebook. Bye." https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/951615904760172545

If it's bad for journalists and advertisers then it's good for users.

“Journalists” being those making their money by being shared on Facebook are the least journalistic.

Re: Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

#28

Josh Marshall just now: "Announcement to publishers who reshaped business models around Facebook. Bye." https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/951615904760172545

If it's bad for journalists and advertisers then it's good for users.

It depends. Some people use Facebook "likes" as a crappy replacement for RSS, so it's probably not great for them.

Re: Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share

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I've unfollowed everyone. My feed only shows past memories. I love my feed. I highly recommend it.

Sounds like Facebook, and indeed the internet, is an unneccesary middleman for you.

Facebook didn't launch with a newsfeed.
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