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New Facebook Update Lets You Choose News Feed Content
An anonymous reader writes The company has rolled out some changes that make it easier to control what comes in your News Feed. From the article: "The social network unveiled a new settings menu and customization options for News Feed that allows users to personalize the types of content they see. The News Feed settings menu, which appears in the Facebook apps and on the web, displays which friends appear most often in your News Feed and which friends you've chosen to unfollow. From there, you can choose to unfollow people you don't want to see anymore or re-follow (Facebook calls it "reconnecting" with) those you've previously hidden from your feed."
Because then you would miss marriage announcements from your friends because "I Fing Love Science" and 100 other pages you like posted a meme. For a significant number of accounts the users could not keep up if they browsed all day, they get more posts than seconds in the day, and even more people (like 99% of Facebook) get more posts than they will ever read. Just because I like Cumberpach does not mean I am interested in reading every thing his pr guy posts, and that like is not equivalent to liking my best friend.
The only possible solution is for FB to figure out how important posts are and what they are, and based on individual browsing habits and likes promote the important stuff in your feed.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
I hate having to go to settings, most recent, every time I load failbook on my phone. I've complained constantly but nobody cares.
Not to mention the random refreshing that bumps me to the top of my feed when I'm reading something 40 swipes below.
You moved your mouse. Please restart Windows for changes to take effect.
If the ranking mechanism FB used was any good, I wouldn't have installed FB Purity to override it...
Why the flying fuck would I need another site to feed me news?
Facebook is the website to end all websites.
People seem to use Facebook as a kind of mental chewing gum. There's always some gossip and "news" to scroll through. Sometimes you're interested in something of it. An endless on-the-go stream of gossip.