Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes
by gaius on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:54AM
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Or trying to find something you saw in your feed, which then disappeared for no obvious reason
The reason is the time you subsequently spend looking for it is “engagement” in their metrics.
Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes
by mung on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:47PM
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The moment you 'interact' with something it goes. So I might click a newspaper article to read it, then refresh the page to update the comments, but poof, it's gone. I'd have to seek it out on the newspaper's page. Utterly dumb.
I haven't logged into facebook a while, and it's not because of recent changes, it's because of existing frustrations, all of which are captured in these comments.
Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes
by pawelk on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:01AM
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> trying to find something you saw in your feed
Sometimes it's right here on my phone, third post in my feed. I want to leave a lengthy comment, but it's nowhere to be found on the desktop browser.
Or trying to find something you saw in your feed, which then disappeared for no obvious reason. I can't decide whether I'm a pigeon in a Skinner box run by humans, or a human in one run by pigeons, but either way, the experience is unpleasant.