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Re:Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other... by fbemployee1234 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @06:59PM (#19324268)
How are you measuring this utility function? What is the evidence that facebooks objective is to hack endorphins?

All the conversations I’ve heard discuss how to make products better for users. Even if it hurts standard metrics.

For example, the goal of the feed team hasn’t been to increase engagement for a couple of years now. The metric of choice is meaningful interactions.

The outsiders perspective of FB seems to be a couple of years out of date, compared to what I’ve seen.

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Re:Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other... by krrishd on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:26PM (#19341847)
I mean, those notifications everyone gets that have no actual pertinent info/are super blatant engagement hacks have been widely discusssed/experienced, and there's no strong argument that those make products better for users (and it's obvious what metrics they're attempting to inflate).
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Re:Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other... by fbemployee1234 on Saturday March 09, 2019 @06:08PM (#19349132)
This sums up the advertising industry as a whole.
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