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Facebook decides which posts are ‘interesting’ to you
The Daily Caller ^ | 9/21/11 | Jordan Bloom

Posted on 09/21/2011 12:32:51 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Another day, another Facebook home page redesign. According to a blog post by Facebook engineering manager Mark Tonkelowitz, users this week were treated to a revamped news feed designed to make the user experience more like a newspaper — that is, Facebook will tell you which of your friends’ updates are worth reading.

“When you pick up a newspaper after not reading it for a week, the front page quickly clues you into the most interesting stories. In the past, News Feed hasn’t worked like that,” Tonkelowitz writes. But now, “all your news will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top.”

The change sparked a flame war in comments on Tonkelowitz’ announcement, with users overwhelmingly opposed to the new system.

“Lame. Quite frankly I don’t want Facebook deciding who is most important in my life. I want my news feed to just go chronologically and if I want to hide posts from someone, I will,” wrote one commenter, whose note drew more than 1,500 “likes” from other users.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; newcoke; socialnetworking; zuckerberg
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

They new way of helping the enemy.


21 posted on 09/21/2011 1:01:59 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: GSWarrior

LIKE


22 posted on 09/21/2011 1:02:54 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Watch what people DO, not what they say.)
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To: Bigh4u2

Nothing came up for me. What point were you trying to make?


23 posted on 09/21/2011 1:03:40 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: NewHampshireDuo
For my real social networking a number of friends and I use other networks that have no cloud storage and use strong encryption for message traffic.

Got any suggestions?

24 posted on 09/21/2011 1:04:40 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Watch what people DO, not what they say.)
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To: Bigh4u2

I can find more Info just typing in my name in a search engine. Guess I am not too important on FB.


25 posted on 09/21/2011 1:05:31 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: Tatze

All things being imperfect. Facebook seems to return the most active ,or ‘interesting’ first, in a search.

I also noticed that ‘Openbook’ seems to limit the number of search results 100.

Doesn’t mean your info isn’t out there. It just means it didn’t ‘hit’ on you in the search.

If there are 20,000 ‘Smiths’ then your not always going to get ‘you’ (if you’re a Smith) in the return.

I think Openbook was set up to show you what was happening ‘behind the scenes’, so to speak.

I’ve only hit on my own last name a couple of times myself.


26 posted on 09/21/2011 1:08:19 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

27 posted on 09/21/2011 1:09:05 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ( Congressmen should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we can identify their corporate sponsors.)
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To: MamaB

read post #26


28 posted on 09/21/2011 1:09:19 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: ToxicMich

Facebook wasn’t always creepy like that. I was a college student 6 years ago. Facebook was cool back then because it was exclusive. To me, facebook jumped the shark once everyone’s mother could log on facebook.


29 posted on 09/21/2011 1:10:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Bigh4u2

Mine came up with this

“No more results. Try another search!”


30 posted on 09/21/2011 1:13:38 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: MamaB

The point is, that even though you set you Facebook page to ‘private’, it’s not..

I use FB in a very limited way.

The only thing I have on there my ‘screen name’. Nothing else.


31 posted on 09/21/2011 1:14:01 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I agree but, it seems like it wants to do too much. I like NLP’s “Nice Little Products” I don’t want one site for everything. Just do what you do well and I will go where I want to go for other stuff.


32 posted on 09/21/2011 1:14:59 PM PDT by edcoil (The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. -- Joe Paterno)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“Facebook is not for everyone.

But I love it, as do millions of others.”

I found long lost friends and relatives on Facebook. I don’t know I would have re-connected with them without it.


33 posted on 09/21/2011 1:16:31 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

How in the world can Facebook know what “news” will be most interesting to me? Stop making these stupid changes, Facebook!


34 posted on 09/21/2011 1:18:39 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: edcoil

But when you go somewhere else for other stuff you’re not seeing the ads FB sells. FB is just like a TV network, they make their money selling your eyes, so they want your eyes as much as possible, so they try to be all things to all people.


35 posted on 09/21/2011 1:19:42 PM PDT by discostu (yeah that's it)
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To: Bigh4u2

My name didn’t come up. Whew!


36 posted on 09/21/2011 1:20:37 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Just deleted my account.


37 posted on 09/21/2011 1:23:02 PM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: MEGoody

They’ve been paying attention to what words show up in posts that get the most likes. They’ve learned that stuff about jobs, relationships, and children is really the news people are most interested in from their friends. Which they probably didn’t need to track anything to get, anybody that’s ever gotten a Christmas letter knows that, but they gathered data anyway.

You can tweak it some, you can change the filter on your friends (one at a time) to show everything from them. They really need to dramatically increase customizability, they have a lot of halfway decent ideas that if they gave me a dozen options to fiddle with could be perfect.


38 posted on 09/21/2011 1:23:17 PM PDT by discostu (yeah that's it)
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To: Bigh4u2
If anyone using Facebook thinks they are ‘anonymous’, they should go and type their last name here:

ditto to nothing on me....there was a picture of a naked woman though.
39 posted on 09/21/2011 1:23:20 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: MinorityRepublican

Jumped the shark into a pit of money. Cool isn’t nearly as profitable as uncool but used. 1/9 of the planet is on FB, think of what they can sell adds for, Super Bowl ads don’t get that much viewership.


40 posted on 09/21/2011 1:26:16 PM PDT by discostu (yeah that's it)
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