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Facebook shuts down Friend List Feeds

sudshr47 August 10, 2018

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Welp, they had a good run.

Facebook is doing away with Friend List Feeds, the customized news feeds that showed only posts from a group of Facebook humans of your choosing (plus, ya know, ads). According to TechCrunch, earlier this week, Facebook rolled out messages to some users that “Friend lists feeds will be going away soon,” and Facebook confirmed the change.

Here’s the full eulogy:

Facebook launched Friend Lists in 2009, and unveiled Smart Lists — which suggest and auto-fill lists based on networks like education or work experience — in 2011. Using the tool was a way to make your Newsfeed experience more customized and to avoid posts from people you’d rather not encounter. Read more…

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That ’26 friends’ Facebook rumor was a hoax — but here’s how you can actually game the News Feed

sudshr47 February 8, 2018

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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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Crunch Report | Elon Musk’s flamethrowers bring in $5 million so far

sudshr47 January 30, 2018

Elon Musk’s flamethrowers have made $5 million so far, Google invests in Go-Jek and Facebook will start prioritizing local news. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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Facebook is clamping down on posts that shamelessly beg for your engagement

sudshr47 December 18, 2017

 A lot of crap gets shared on Facebook, but coming soon the volume may be a little less after Facebook made a move to penalize content that shamelessly begs people for engagement. The social network giant said today that it will penalize Page owners and people who resort to “engagement bait,” which means posts that encourage users to like, comment or tag people in the comments… Read More

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