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Instagram's New Algorithm That Puts the Best Posts First Goes Live For All (instagram.com)
Instagram announced on Friday that it is rolling out its algorithmic feed around the world. The idea is, Facebook-owned photo and video platform says, users will see photos that they are likely to enjoy -- as opposed to seeing what people they follow have posted in reverse-chronological order. The algorithm uses machine learning to create a more personalized feed based on what it thinks you will enjoy more. TechCrunch reports: If you think that sounds a lot like parent company Facebook's News Feed algorithm, you'd be right. As Facebook came to understand long ago, the posts people want to see aren't necessarily those that are the newest. They're those that matter to you, personally. But since most of us aren't on our phones 24/7 -- hey, even the busiest people sleep for a few hours per night! -- we tend to miss posts from our favorite people. This is especially true if you're trying to keep up with friends in other time zones.
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well, more tits to be honest...
As someone who constantly changes his FB feed to show the newest (because that's how I find the things I want to know about), I would like to say that it's a giant pain in the ass and that all of the corporations who think they know better than I as to what I want to see and when need to take a long walk off a short pier so they can go soak their head.
What you are doing is not "curation", it is propaganda. I, for one, am tired of it. And far sooner than you think, this will lose whatever effectiveness it once had. People have a way of becoming immune to it's influence. Learn from Mad Men. You have one chance to change people's minds. Don't squander it on the flavor of the month.
and read nothing but words that agree with us.
Everyone wants this. Without exception. Ever... bitch.
I specifically avoid using the News Feed on Facebook because it keeps missing posts from friends. Instead I have a "Following" list with everyone I want on it. It still occasionally misses posts, but it's a lot better than the News Feed. Don't tell me what I want to see, I can skim over the stuff I don't care about - the scroll wheel works very well thankyouverymuch.
If I used Instagram I'd probably be very concerned about this. But alas, my selfie-whoring days are long past, so I think I'll just go have a sandwich and then take a nap.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
More like #latergram
RARASIST!!!!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Reverse chronological order is perfect and what I always want on any site I go to. Your [quote]AI[/quote] is always fucking wrong. Stop doing it.
captcha: rectify
Why do these social media companies insist on telling me what I want and like to see when I visit the site?
Do they have a new algorithm that will let it display pictures without enabling 20 or more domains to run javascript on my machine? Every time I get linked to a picture, I don't end up seeing it because fuck that shit.
We used to have presentation based on comprehensible, objective metrics.
Like, "most read", or "highest rated".
Now, we get "trending". What exactly is "trending"? Apparently, terminology intended to suggest most followed statistically, but wide open to interjection of whatever subjective criteria or advertising profit the site may wish.
Give me back terms and criteria that mean something. I want my old Internet back.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
controls the future. who controls the future, controls the past. Jedi mind trick has nothing on NK.
...As Facebook came to understand long ago, the posts people want to see aren't necessarily those that are the newest. They're those that matter to you, personally....
What if the posts that matter to me, personally, the most are the newest.
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Why doesn't fb's super special algorithm pick that up? Why, when I tell it that I want to see newest posts first (MULTIPLE TIMES!!!), it constantly overrides that directive and shows me stuff in what appears to me to be random order?
Ah.
Like Facebook.
When I constantly switch the fucker back to "Most Recent" and it keeps fucking forgetting.
Oh, well, another site to avoid because of a stupid change to how it works that wasn't thought through.
All social media should die.
It's done nothing but dumb people down and waste their time.
To 14-year-old self-harming anorexics.
Since this change went into effect, my company's reach on Instagram has been cut in half. I guess we're just not all that interesting anymore according to their algorithm compared to how interesting we were before to the people that actually saw our content!?
I love trying to show comments to friends, only to have them be ordered completely differently for everyone viewing. How does this help anyone?
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I'd moderate this down for you if i had points.
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The funny part is the same people modding like that complain on Reddit about the "Liberal SJWs" doing the exact same thing, rofl.
> really prove the GP comment's claims to be 100% correct!
That's not how logic works. It makes sense, in context, when you consider a lack of basic rigor in your/his thinking.
Seeing only the things I am used to seeing?
love is just extroverted narcissism
I hate this stupid shit on Facebook and don't want it anywhere else. Their judgement is not good enough.
If the stuff you're seeing is sorted in reverse chronological order, you can browse through it up to the point where you last browsed through it. Then you're done becomes you know you've already seen everything that comes after.
If the stuff you're seeing is sorted in whatever way some mysterious algorithm thinks you'll find it interesting, you can't stop browsing. An interesting thing that you haven't seen before may be just one more page scroll down, buried among stuff you've already seen. This is like counting marbles by pulling one out of the bag, writing a number, throwing it back into the bag, and pulling out another marble. It's extraordinarily inefficient at finding all the unnumbered marbles, and guarantees you can never know if you've counted them all.
And what happens if you run across something you really do find interesting, but you have to put your phone down to do other stuff. And between then and the next time you're able to browse the algorithm has updated what it thinks your preferences are? You can't reproduce the previous sort order. So now it's like a magazine, where the pages can randomly rearrange their order while you're in the middle of browsing through it.
Citation needed.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This is not a kindly little old service that helps you find things that are important to you.
This is an extremely malicious program to shape your point of view by enticing you with items that are scientifically proven to stimulate you and then associating those items with other items that promote an agenda that is against your interests.
This is literally some faceless entity telling you to your face that it has the power to decide what you like and that you will agree.
What is to stop them from inserting suggestive material into your feed? How can you account for the affect such things would have on your point of view?
Self awareness and thoughtless stimulation cannot exist together. Guess which one helps you get what you want and need out of life in the long run?
Not that this specific change in this specific service is particularly important, but it is a clear sign of what role the internet plays in most peoples' lives.
Here is the citation you asked for. This comment is current at -1.
I installed FB Purity, decided I didn't like it, uninstalled it, and was immediately locked out of Facebook for a supposed phishing attack. Stupid me, I guess. So beware.
Worst thing to happen to instagram. I follow people for a reason.
What it do bitch
Bitch
I wonder who they plan on selling themselves to, this time?
when you try not to miss anything. You're always searching, which posts are still unread, because the timeline always tries to resort it, without actually knowing what you've seen but not clicked.
"the posts people want to see aren't necessarily those that are the newest."
I never thought in my lifetime I would see someone defend this abhorrent practice. Give me my g.d. Most Recent and stop changing it! This is the #1 piece of bullshit Facebook does that makes me want to close my account.