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Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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That's what the follow feature is for. You can get notified on ALL activity of a friend of you are willing to click two.

All of my friends are set to follow. Seems like a default option.

Yes, but there's a "see first" option and you can turn on notifications on activities:

https://imgur.com/a/xZTQk

Re: Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

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A/B testing won’t ever get you a Tesla from a horse. Right. But if you were already selling Teslas, and along came a smooth-talking product designer with a dream to "improve" it by building a horse instead, A/B testing would make sure that change never saw the light of day. A/B testing is not a way to get out of having to come up with good ideas yourself. It's a way to validate that your ideas are any good in the fir…

Indeed. When I was advocating for A/B testing at the last company I worked for, I tried hard to teach people that every test should have a sane hypothesis behind it based on some kind of usability theory. Not just “let’s try changing the header font color to red and see what happens!”

I worked for a company with an obsessed AB culture. Biggest hole I found. Clicks != satisfaction. Time spent on site also != satisfaction.

There’s something very powerful just talking to the user, feeling their pain and working with them to fix it until they say “this is awesome”.

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