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Facebook Overhauls News Feed in Favor of 'Meaningful Social Interactions' (theguardian.com)
Facebook said late Thursday it will begin to prioritize posts in the News Feed from friends and family over public content and posts from publishers. The company will also move away from using "time spent" on the platform as a metric of success and will instead focus on "engagement" with content, such as comments. From a report: The social media platform will de-prioritize videos, photos, and posts shared by businesses and media outlets, which Zuckerberg dubbed "public content," in favor of content produced by a user's friends and family. "The balance of what's in News Feed has shifted away from the most important thing Facebook can do -- help us connect with each other," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing the change. "We feel a responsibility to make sure our services aren't just fun to use, but also good for people's well-being."
nobody posting here knows what meaningful social interaction means
Are they going to stop sending me an email every day begging me to log in if I go on vacation for a couple weeks? It smacks of desperation.
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... a persistent Recent Posts First option, with a persistent option for family/friends only. I want facebook to stop messing with what I see because all they do is screw it up.
You may not, I may not, but people do. Sadly.
Facebook 2004 was awesome. It was about meeting people around me in college. I'm trying to remember if we had pictures other than our profile photo.
These days it's a cesspool agglomeration of the Eternal September, forwards from grandma and AOL chat.