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I hope it becomes more useful, because for me their original value proposition to users was great but has totally lost its way as they’ve monetized.
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.
Mark Zuckerberg's post on this change: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104413015393571 Facebook press release: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/news-feed-fyi-bringing-...
The very first sentence of Zuckerberg's FB post says: > One of our big focus areas for 2018 is to make sure that the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent. "Time well spent" is also the name of an organization that is one of Facebook's strongest critics: http://timewellspent.io I wonder if the phrasing is deliberate.
I thought the amount of trash posts and videos (which caused me to leave Facebook) had greatly declined, but wasn’t sure why. If it’s related to this change, it’s a good start.
While I’m skeptical of Facebook, I appreciate their attempt to improve if it’s genuine.
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…
I generally feel that Facebook has traveled so far in the wrong direction, coming back to any sense of morality will be an extremely hard job. That being said, I wonder if they truly understood the extent of their "shady" tactics. It's all too easy to focus on shareholders and forget about the real people using your service. All told, this does at least feel like a step in the right direction.
The FB feed has been terrible since it changed from a chronological list. Doubt this will improve anything.
Wait, Facebook cares about engagement between people instead of between people and ad-supported lowest common demoninator content? Could have fooled me over the past several years. I’m really cynical about FB but it really has earned it. I hope it becomes more useful, because for me their original value proposition to users was great but has totally lost its way as they’ve monetized.
The trick of course is convincing anyone who isn't me to pay :)
Heck, maybe it should be a non-profit.