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Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook dying? by ikeyany on Monday March 27, 2017 @06:13PM (#13972295)
I really want your comment to receive more attention. A few years ago, Facebook got rid of the feature that displays your news feed by the most recent posts. Even when you insisted to sort by recent, they decided that you should instead view the most "recent" comments/likes, rather than the most recent posts.

They hoped no one noticed.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook dying? by fumar on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:11AM (#13974003)
Two reasons Facebook's data points to algo determined newsfeed is better; addictiveness based on time spent and interaction, more display ads.

They can control the FB experience and show "relevant" ads because they create the relevancy by choosing what content to display around the ads. The real time newsfeed can't be controlled, humans uploads can't be predicted. More$$$ from advertisers by owning and crafting the story for every user every time.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Facebook dying? by ikeyany on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:32AM (#13976392)
It's mass social engineering, shaping how we interact on a primal level, with clicks/views as the guiding metric. And there's diddly squat the common man can do about it.
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