Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes

Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by shaqbert on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:52AM (#16280620)

Indeed it is. Joel had a great analyis on what went wrong[0] at FB (and to some extend Twitter). They were optimising for the wrong metrics, forgetting user utility and happiness in the process. Fixing this will mean making less money. But also a much higher chance of long term relevance.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/01/12/birdcage-liners/

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Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by oblio on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:31AM (#16281379)

Hah! Cool, he blogged again.

The key question here is: does self-regulation work for social media? I'm not sure it does. Their end goal is to create a Skinner box. That's all there is to it. And that goal definitely conflicts with what we actually want/need.

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Re:Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes by avip on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:21AM (#16280753)

Thanks. Great read - and too bad that's not the OP.

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