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

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Post by axg » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:28 AM UTC

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

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Post by tymyshoe23 » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:33 AM UTC

Ugh, I was so hoping for more political posts...

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Post by minimaxir » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:33 AM UTC

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-...

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Post by grambrose » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:36 AM UTC

Hopefully I won't miss the deaths of any of my friends now.

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Post by masterleep » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:43 AM UTC

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

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Post by prh8 » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:48 AM UTC

Sounds like they're returning the feed to what it was back around 2007-2009 ish (when I first remember it). Or at least attempting to do so.

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Post by w00b4 » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:49 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #3

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.

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:50 AM UTC

masterleep wrote: post #5

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

> The FB feed has been terrible since it changed from a chronological list

Isn’t there still an option to rank chronologically? It just isn’t the default. In any case, the news feed has been a quantitative success in terms of engagement metrics.

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Post by 40acres » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:52 AM UTC

masterleep wrote: post #5

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

Same with Instagram, it's a major reason why I no longer use the service.

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Post by Florin_Andrei » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 12:52 AM UTC

masterleep wrote: post #5

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

It will "maximize eyeballs", which is the desired result for them.