Richard MacManus on Nostr: 1/3 Key passage in my 2011 post today: Alongside the Timeline, Facebook made an even ...
1/3 Key passage in my 2011 post today:
Alongside the Timeline, Facebook made an even bigger change—although it wasn’t immediately obvious how it would impact society. It began phasing out its chronological News Feed with a new, algorithmic feed that curated what you saw. The company marketed this as “your own personal newspaper,” since the algorithm would theoretically only give you the news you wanted to see. On the flip side, you would no longer get to see updates from everyone you followed.
Alongside the Timeline, Facebook made an even bigger change—although it wasn’t immediately obvious how it would impact society. It began phasing out its chronological News Feed with a new, algorithmic feed that curated what you saw. The company marketed this as “your own personal newspaper,” since the algorithm would theoretically only give you the news you wanted to see. On the flip side, you would no longer get to see updates from everyone you followed.