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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by quanticle on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:08PM (#30210368)
The social networks are very good at serving this use case - showing most important content first, and relegating the junky stuff further down the feed.

Only up to a point. I have actually missed wedding announcements because the announcement was pushed far down by more recent but less relevant news. Yes, if you use Facebook for 30 minutes a day, you probably won't miss anything. But if you use Facebook less often than that (like an hour a week, or once a month), you will absolutely miss relevant news because it'll be pushed down by whatever political shoutfest is currently drawing comments and reactions.

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Re:Facebook loses users for the first time by annadane on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:50PM (#30215780)
> Yes, if you use Facebook for 30 minutes a day, you probably won't miss anything. But if you use Facebook less often than that (like an hour a week, or once a month)

Which I'm sure is complete coincidence and not at all intended to draw you into using Facebook every second of every hour of every day

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