Horrible news. Now this stupid thing will be less horrible and will keep people who were leaving.
Or maybe it will just go back to the point it was when I left, in 2013, which was already very unbearable.
Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share
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#72I have long critiqued Facebook for chasing after ad revenue at the expense of the experience they offer users. In light of this news, the following quote comes to mind: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." 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 th…
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The context there is important there. He didn’t call them dumbfucks for using Facebook, but made the observation that a small subset that work at the school newspaper are dumbfucks.
Not saying it’s right, but that quote is taken wildly out of context all the time.
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#73"Sharing" is spamming.
I'm interested in what my friends write. I have little interest in what they share, especially if it's commercial content.
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#74Good intentions or not, we must remember that history has proven time and time again, when any entity has far too much unchecked power, it is inevitably exploited by bad actors. A user base of two billion users without any real accountability is a scary thing. The only people policing Facebook are Facebook. We would never agree to a having a single dictator who answers to no one, why should Facebook be treated any di…
Because unlike a dictator Facebook has zero real power over your life? It's a site of puppies and horoscopes, you think we should be dealing with them like we do Kim Jong Un?
How have we moved so far on the personal responsibility scale. Why aren't people partly responsible for not making better use of their time? Facebook is an "evil echo chamber", "wasting people's lives", "catering to business", etc - ALL THEY DO IS HOST YOUR FRIENDS' PHOTOS. Can't we take partial responsibility at least for how often we _choose_ to log on? Are we that simple that our entire personalities can be fully pwned with some basic machine learning?
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#75Facebook = weapon of mass disinformation
Smartphone = weapon of mass distraction
The 'perfect' storm.
next? AR/VR = weapon of mass delusion?
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#76Wait, 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.
Yea, at this point I'd be willing to pay $10/month for a social network that respected my privacy, didn't bombard me with ads, and just generally treated me as a customer , rather than product . The trick of course is convincing anyone who isn't me to pay :) Heck, maybe it should be a non-profit.
Just... get your real friends to text you.
If they won't text you, they're not your real friends. (This isn't always true, but I'd say that it's 95% accurate.)
I'm not being condescending or pretentious. I have done this, over the last few months, and it's helped me to realize who's really worth having in my life on a daily basis, and who's not.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
As someone who runs a business partly driven by people who use Facebook as a crappy replacement for RSS, I can confirm. Facebook made a change a while back where people who explicitly followed my page to keep up to date on local events and businesses suddenly were not seeing anything I posted. I had to start paying Facebook to keep them showing things to people, but even that is far slower than it had been. Out of about 2000 people following my page, I used to have around 1500 seeing my posts per week, now it's down to under 500.
My readers are pretty upset, complaining to me that I don't post enough anymore and they're missing events they wanted to know about, but I can't make Facebook show them what Facebook doesn't want to show them. I tell the people to go directly to my website, but for a lot of them Facebook is the only website that exists.
It's a small town without a newspaper or any other media outlets, so I'm still trying to figure out how to keep on going because I think it's a worthwhile service. Facebook doesn't make it easy anymore though.
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#78The 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…
For what it's worth, HN's search feature is killer and has never let me down.
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#79I have long critiqued Facebook for chasing after ad revenue at the expense of the experience they offer users. In light of this news, the following quote comes to mind: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." 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 th…
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What did you write to your friends on IM when you were 19 yourself ?
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#80I looked through my newsfeed this week for the first time in several months. 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.
What's your criteria for "genuine"?