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Facebook Is Killing Off Trending As It Tries To Revamp Newsfeed (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Facebook has announced plans to kill off the Trending feature of its newsfeed. The social network says that this is to "make way for future news experiences." Over the years, Facebook has experimented endlessly with the presentation of news, and has faced criticism for failing to weed out "fake news" and also accusations of liberal bias. Now the company wants to find new ways to help people find news that matters to them, ensuring that it comes from reliable sources.
suck em
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOO! MOOOOOO! Moo cows MOOOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU ZUCKERCOWS!!
Did they misspell "fake"?
We don't WANT a newsfeed on Facebook. AT ALL. We want to find out what are friends are doing. WE DON'T GO TO FACEBOOK FOR NEWS!
Just show us our friends posts, let us screen out the political garbage, and stop switching from Most Recent to "Top Stories" EVERY! FREAKING! TIME! we log on!
Why is this so hard for Facebook to understand
"Relax Mark," she says. I slowly unzip my pants.
The living room in this house has an incredible view. It’s as if you can see every inch of the Bay Area from up here. Is the Bay Area seeing every inch of me though?
Mark begins to sob. "My mother was right." He hangs his head in anguish. "I should have married a nice Jewish woman."
"Oh please." Priscilla rolls her eyes. "Have you ever even met a Jewish American Princess? The first JAP you would have tied the knot with would have taken half of your shit and used that money to keep the ball rolling with the next ten men."
"But look at what you’re doing now! I guess I should have expected no better from a girl I met at an AEPi party!" Mark shoots back.
"We agreed this would be the best action to take for the health of our marriage. Why are you so bitter now?"
"I don’t know. It just feels weird."
"That’s normal," Priscilla says coolly. She looks straight at me: "Let’s get this over with."
"Listen, if you guys aren’t comfortable with this, I can leave," I say, trying to keep the situation calm. A dog enters the room. It’s big, with what looks like long white pool noodles for fur. If Bob Marley had an Albino dog, this would be it. He seems confused, but he can tell Mark is agitated. The canine looks at me and begins to snarl.
"Calm down, Beast!" Priscilla shouts.
The dog immediately cowers back in fear, whimpering quietly. How did I get myself into this? Priscilla looks back at me: "No, you’re finishing this."
I shift my gaze back from the dog to the window. "So, are you comfortable, Priscilla?" Great view.
"Doctor," she corrects me.
"Doctor Priscilla?"
"Doctor Chan."
"Have you done something like this with your patients?" Mark interrupts anxiously.
"No Mark, I just prefer to be called by my proper title with strangers. Stop being so petty. You know I love you. I’m doing this for you," she replies gently.
"Yeah. I’m sorry honey. You know I’m just getting worked up," Mark begins to twiddle his thumbs.
"Ugh. You’re worse than your mother. Do you want to be like them?"
I have to interject- "Like who?"
Priscilla is quick to answer: "The Obamas. The Musks. You know."
"No, I really don’t," I answer. Because I don’t. What are these bizarre people going on about?
"Like last New Year’s eve. Elon Musk filed for divorce while everyone was out having the time of their lives," Priscilla explains.
"And the Obamas?" I inquire further.
Mark answers, "I’m pretty much on a first-name basis with Barry. The controversy is that last Christmas vacation when the Obamas flew out to Hawaii, Barry came back, but Michelle stayed an extra week. It was quite a spectacle."
"’I’m pretty much on a first-name basis with Barry.’" Priscilla repeats mockingly. "As if we don’t all know Obama’s first name."
"I don’t get it. What do those guys have to do with you?" I need to ask again, for I am not one of quick wit.
"Well, frankly, the marriage is stagnating. We married too young and never really got to explore ourselves. But we can’t get a divorce, it would be too high profile. The press wouldn’t stop harassing us about it. It would be like if Hillary and Bill got a divorce halfway through her campaign run," Priscilla explains.
"I understand." I don’t actually understand. But who knows how long this explanation of their scheming and paltry concerns will go on for? I don’t really care.
"The last thing Mark would want," Priscilla starts again, "is for me to run away from San Francisco, and travel the world alone! I’d even have a blog, where I would tell everyone that they need to quit their jobs, marry a nice Jewish boy from Harvard with a budding social network, and then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
What you think you see on the "News"
What The "News" Actually does to you
Yes the USA are the same as Russia.
the 'language' is completely abusable for almost any caucasian, machine, psychopath... cease fire stand down.. all this scriptdead bullonly fairytail fanthefirefair conquerish aggression is the result of centuries of abuse by psychotic inbred crown royals & religion peddlers.. the moms of the nile would have all that mass deception cleared up in a matter of weeks... thanks again
"future news experiences." oh wait, I don't have a Facebook account. Guess I wil just settle for real news the old fashioned way.
;)
Just my 2 cents
If we the people only get fed news that only appeals to us, how are we supposed to weigh out the issues of the day. Myopic insight only lead to self satisfied conclusions. Its sort of like only taking right hand turns and being bewildered why you only go in circles.
Fall out of favor with the younger generation, and they move on to something else. If you don't use a blocker on FB, you get bombed with garbage in your "news feed" I just use uBlock to create block scripts and block all the garbage. Kids & ADVERTISERS will shift to instagram, snapchat or whatever is "hip and trendy" with the kids, because to advertisers, THAT is where the money is.
Facebook and other Tech companies want to control the narrative. Once you control the narrative, you control the people.
The problem is, that once you start issuing controls on the narrative, it becomes easier to spot those controls, and even circumvent them. That is part of the reason why Facebook is starting its downward trend. People, even ones that might like the narrative, don't want to be spoon fed preprocessed baby food news.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
No reliable sources in this age.
Facebook is trying to rebuild their respect after the big debacle about the fake news, and other crap, but i think they are incapable of being trustworthy, as soon as the next election draws near they are going to ramp up the bias and mud slinging and all the other dirty shenanigans that go with US politics, you facebook members are a product to be used for profits thats all you are to facebook, and thats all you will ever be to facebook
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
We can't let people know the economy is taking off since we don't have our guy in the White House right now.
Move along ! Move along ! Please don't look at this !
Van Jones told us there's more important things than a good economy. Don't pay attention to that !
We need to focus on the real problems like how people are making evil amounts of money and how that just hurts everyone. And animals. And how we're not being mindful enough about ethnicity and culture and esthetics.
Trending could be useful in its own right if they just wouldn't screw with it. Sadly curating is all the rage with FaceTwitTube.
--- Mercutio was right.
facebook is an arm of the democratic party and their entire focus is on herding people into voting democratic. That's it, nothing else there.
News of Facebook not trending now trending - except on Facebook, where trending is not trending.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Holy crap! They're gonna predict the future!
I estimate:
Another 2-3 days before some other inane Apple news
1 for Microsoft
4 for Tesla
Tomorrow will have another Trump tale, within another few months there will be another Kardashian in the White House. Likely with a reality show, "Keeping up with Celebrity Apprentice, YOU'RE FIRED Edition"
it's gonna be another 2 weeks before another mass shooting (at current 2018 rate)
Just leave "Most Recent" as default ffs.
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