2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse

Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by evanriley on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:20PM (#15924155)

Instagram used to be my go-to social media, and the millions of images of peoples dinners didn't annoy me, but I find myself using it less and less because of the non-chronological feed. I still don't understand how it can possibly be better than a chronological one.

If anything I wish they would give an option in the settings to make it chronological

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Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by bigdubs on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:24PM (#15924201)

Generally if they keep a feature it means that the majority of people were more engaged by it, so the algo feed is probably increasing engagement across the board but alienating a few users.

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Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by whatever_dude on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:45AM (#15960112)

This. When companies start looking at features and changes through the lenses of a metric, everything follows that metric. I'm sure that drives more engagement, therefore it's enforced on everybody.

Unfortunately they're not measuring abandonment or annoyance. Metrics like these are the short-term gain investors of today tech, always looking into the today and ruining the tomorrow.

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Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by thisacctforreal on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:20PM (#15929234)

It's not so specific as alienating a few users, it's removing an intuitive UX feature in exchange for the ability to control the order of the content you see, which can increase engagement.

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Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by p0nce on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:41PM (#15926794)

The same things happened with Twitter and FB. There are some tweets I've seen dozens of time because the algorithm think it is relevant, but I just want the latest thank you.

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