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Re:New Facebook design: Thoughts? by jfarmer on Friday March 13, 2009 @09:04PM (#515529)
Really? With the old feed it was only updated every N minutes. Say the feed refreshes every hour or two, for the sake of argument.

Users who are more engaged than that see a stale homepage.

Facebook is pretty data-driven, so I'm sure that have a whole suite of metrics that tell them this is a good move. At least I hope so.

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Re:New Facebook design: Thoughts? by jfarmer on Friday March 13, 2009 @09:42PM (#515549)
Put another way, with the newsfeed there was an engagement ceiling. Letting your hardcore users be as hardcore as they want keeps them there.
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