Facebook is ending its short-lived (and misguided) experiment with the alternative news feed feature called “Explore”.
In a blog post today, Facebook head of news feed, Adam Mosseri wrote:
We constantly try out new features, design changes and ranking updates to understand how we can make Facebook better for everyone. Some of these changes—like Reactions, Live Video, and… Read More
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Facebook admits splitting the News Feed in two was a dumb idea
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Facebook just did something it very rarely does: admit it was wrong.
The social network is officially ending both iterations of its “Explore Feed” feature, which created two separate feeds for users.
To recap: Facebook has been experimenting with two different versions of an Explore Feed feature. The first was a dedicated tab that surfaced content from pages you didn’t follow based on Facebook’s understanding of your interests.
The second, which was confusingly also called Explore Feed, was a more aggressive experiment that launched last fall in six countries, which created one feed just for posts from friends and another feed for all content from pages — that is, posts directly from a brand, group, or publisher. Read more…
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Support for 3D imagery on Facebook is growing. Last October, Facebook introduced interactive posts of 3D objects to its news feed. The social network rolled out support for a new file format this week, which will make it even easier for users to shar…
View More 3D posts on Facebook just got a lot betterThat ’26 friends’ Facebook rumor was a hoax — but here’s how you can actually game the News Feed
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The latest hoax that the Facebook world soundly fell for was the idea that only 26 (or 25) friends could see your posts. In copy-paste messages that made rounds on the Newsfeed, Facebook users asked their friends to comment with a simple “hi” to show that the post had appeared in their feeds — demonstrating that they were one of the Chosen 26.
It’s pretty miraculous that this needed debunking, since many of the posts I saw, at least, had more than 26 individuals commenting on them. But it’s especially far-fetched if you know anything about how the Facebook algorithm works. As Mark Zuckerberg recently reiterated when he announced changes in the algorithm to favor posts from friends and family over brands and news outlets, the more people who interact with a post, the higher it will rank in the News Feed algorithm. Read more…
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View More That ’26 friends’ Facebook rumor was a hoax — but here’s how you can actually game the News FeedFacebook’s traffic is down 50 million hours per day as Zuckerberg demands less ‘viral videos’
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One of Facebook’s core statistics doesn’t look so good. Time spent on the network — a number that drives the tech giant’s revenue — is down by an estimated 50 million hours per day.
Facebook now reaches 2.13 billion people per month and has 1.4 billion daily active users. If we were to revisit that 50 million hours number on a per-user basis, it would be a drop of 0.035 hours aka 2.1 minutes per user per day.
For CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, that’s a necessary drop for his company’s future success. Zuckerberg announced the news Wednesday as part of Facebook’s quarterly earnings, reflecting on its 2017 revenue and spending and the future of the company. Read more…
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View More Facebook’s traffic is down 50 million hours per day as Zuckerberg demands less ‘viral videos’Facebook’s latest News Feed update will prioritize trustworthy publishers
Facebook is gearing up to prioritize news content by publishers a group of Facebook users have deemed trustworthy. Facebook Head of News Feed Adam Mosseri said the company surveyed “a diverse and representative sample” of U.S.-based people about their familiarity and trust in various sources of news, he wrote in a blog post. That data, Mosseri said, will serve to inform News… Read More
Facebook will elevate ‘trusted’ news outlets after surveying U.S. users
Facebook announced on Friday that news isn’t disappearing from your News Feed, but the social network is placing quite the heavy hand on what it decides to show you.
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The soc…
Weird Facebook glitch has ‘broken’ News Feed, but it’s actually kind of nice
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Facebook’s News Feed is broken. No, that is’t a comment on the current state of social media or Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to fix what’s broken about Facebook.
I mean, it’s literally broken. Many users are reporting that they’re opening the Facebook app and website only to see a big, blank space that says “there are no more posts to show right now.”
Though not affecting all users, the glitch appears to be fairly widespread, with a number of users reporting some variation of the “no posts” issue.
Facebook is broken right nowpic.twitter.com/VHMpX3IJmL
— Meredith Guthrie (@meredithea) January 16, 2018 Read more…
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Facebook just became the ultimate dystopia
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When constructing a dystopia, it takes some doing to be both Orwellian and Huxleyan at the same time. But with the changes he just announced to the Facebook News Feed, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have managed this extraordinary feat.
The nightmare worlds of George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) are in many ways polar opposites. One is a surveillance state that controls what people see of history by literally rewriting newspapers. The other controls its citizenry by blissing them out on a dissociative drug called soma.
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Current Facebook wants to go back to being Old Facebook
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Facebook wants to be for the people, even if that means people using Facebook less.
Facebook on Thursday announced that it’s making big changes, heavily prioritizing stuff from your friends and family over companies and publishers you follow.
For the media outlets that spent years racking up millions of Facebook “likes” and creating new Pages, that’s bad news. Even Facebook’s Head of News Feed Adam Mosseri told the New York Times, publishers may have “anxiety.”
But for the Facebook user — no matter the demographic — Mark Zuckerberg’s big mandate is to put the social back in his social network. It’s a clear effort to return Facebook to what it used to be, a place for friends to stay up to date with each other and communicate. Read more…
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Facebook announces a big News Feed change — and just wants you to be happy
Facebook is re-tweaking its News Feed again.
This time it wants to bring it back to friends and family instead of viral videos and media posts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post Thursday.
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It’s easier than ever to take a break from annoying Facebook friends
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Facebook has launched a feature to let you temporarily hide annoying friends from your newsfeed.
The feature, Snooze, allows you to unfollow a person, page, or group for 30 days.
With Snooze, you can clear your News Feed of friends you still like, but who currently won’t stop posting about their recent exotic vacation, wedding, or new cat. When their life is back to normal, you can “Unsnooze” them, and they’ll be none the wiser.
If you don’t Unsnooze, though, a Snooze will automatically expire after a month. Don’t worry — you’ll be notified, so if someone’s vacation or cat-picture phase lasts longer than that, you can renew as needed. Read more…
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