Facebook Frolics 3

3 comments

1. George Smith

   December 28, 2012 at 4:11 pm

   Interesting. In the past year Facebook has wildly changed the way its feed works for people. Early in the year, every bit of crap “friends” posted wound up in your feed with the result that the most prolific posters drowned out contributions from ‘friends’ who were less obsessed. To uncover what was going on you had to either unfriend the nuisances or de-rate them manually. Now, it’s the opposite. Facebook has stovepiped most of its users. Generally speaking, most of your ‘friends’ won’t ever see what you post unless they make an effort or you bribe FB to ‘promote’ or ‘sponsor’ what you post. And just before question they tried sneaking stealthy ads into the feed. People reacted badly and I haven’t seen them again, yet. Since Facebook search doesn’t work for anything interesting and it’s typically lousy as a micro-blogging or webpage-for-idiots platform, it’s mostly about being grasping.  

    
2. Frank

   December 29, 2012 at 9:02 am

   The only thing certain about Facebook is that its users are thoroughly zucked.

    
3. George Smith

   December 29, 2012 at 11:44 am

   Basically. The plan, I bet, is to leverage loneliness and isolation through the feed algorithm.