Facebook today is launching a new feature designed to give users more control over what content they see in their News Feed: a “Snooze” button. The option, which will become available via the top-right dropdown menu on a post, will mute content from a person, Page or group for 30 days. The new feature can serve as a way to dial down the content you don’t want to see,… Read More
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Facebook killed the Ticker and that’s a bad sign for News Feed
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When it comes to your News Feed, Facebook knows best.
That’s the message the social network has been broadcasting pretty much since it introduced the first version of its News Feed algorithm in 2011.
Six years later, and the company has only doubled and tripled down on that message — data rules all and Facebook certainly has more of that than anyone else. So who better to understand your exact preferences — right?
Unfortunately for Facebook, though, many of its 2 billion users would like a little more choice in the matter. (Just look at the number of people who still complain about the News Feed algorithm showing old posts.) Read more…
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