Posted on 05/03/2014 2:50:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Facebook just announced a dramatic update to the way that it ranks its News Feed content that will have users seeing more news articles and fewer cute meme photos, like LOLCats. The company cites an internal survey that apparently showed that people prefer clicking links to high quality articles (about current events, sports, whatever) over the latest memes.
"Starting soon, we’ll be doing a better job of distinguishing between a high quality article on a website versus a meme photo hosted somewhere other than Facebook," the blog post reads. "This means that high quality articles you or others read may show up a bit more prominently in your News Feed, and meme photos may show up a bit less prominently."
It's not clear how facebook is going to make its "quality" judgment. But it appears that you'll be seeing a lot less of LOLCats, Good Guy Greg and 9Gag.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Witht he constant worsenign the Newsfeed, the replacement of the good serach feature with a non-functioning one, an Android app with a retarded ui,
and the extortion racket they run with group events, I don’t use Facebook half as much as I used to. Google Plus is far superior.
Sure guys, take away about the only remaining reason to go to facebook, which is to read and post meme .jpgs, especially the conservative ones knocking Obama.
Do they realize nobody clicks on them because there’s no point, the whole thing is right there to read with no reason to further investigate?
This is about them getting paid for clicks and nothing. Which is fine, but no one’s gonna play ball with them.
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