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01-19-2018, 11:01 AM
Facebook needs to kill the News Feed
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What is the Facebook News Feed for?*
In 2018, the answer is less certain than ever. Mark Zuckerberg now says it should be "good for people (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.html)," like kale, polio vaccines, or any number of things that aren't data-harvesting, Russian propaganda-boosting social networks.
SEE ALSO: I deleted Facebook off my phone and you should too (http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/delete-the-facebook-app/)
And so, Facebook will alter your feed (http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/facebook-news-feed-algorithm-changes-family-friends/) to favor content posted by friends and family — particularly if it's generating a lot of comments — while minimizing stuff from brands. Everyone's spent a lot of time parsing (https://theoutline.com/post/2936/facebook-news-feed-changes-are-actually-good-for-news) what (http://mashable.com/2018/01/12/facebook-dystopia/) this (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqgn4/facebook-algorithm-news-feed-change) algorithm (https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/facebooks-news-feed-change-is-a-retreat-from-the-public) shift (https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/14/16885314/facebook-news-feed-changes-meaningful-interactions) means (https://digiday.com/media/losing-hope-facebook-tells-publishers-big-change-coming-news-feed/), but here's an educated guess: Not much!* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/18/facebook-needs-to-kill-the-news-feed/)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Algorithms (http://mashable.com/category/algorithms/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Big Tech Companies (http://mashable.com/category/big-tech-companies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/R9xw5wjShwU
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What is the Facebook News Feed for?*
In 2018, the answer is less certain than ever. Mark Zuckerberg now says it should be "good for people (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/facebook-news-feed.html)," like kale, polio vaccines, or any number of things that aren't data-harvesting, Russian propaganda-boosting social networks.
SEE ALSO: I deleted Facebook off my phone and you should too (http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/delete-the-facebook-app/)
And so, Facebook will alter your feed (http://mashable.com/2018/01/11/facebook-news-feed-algorithm-changes-family-friends/) to favor content posted by friends and family — particularly if it's generating a lot of comments — while minimizing stuff from brands. Everyone's spent a lot of time parsing (https://theoutline.com/post/2936/facebook-news-feed-changes-are-actually-good-for-news) what (http://mashable.com/2018/01/12/facebook-dystopia/) this (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zmqgn4/facebook-algorithm-news-feed-change) algorithm (https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/facebooks-news-feed-change-is-a-retreat-from-the-public) shift (https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/14/16885314/facebook-news-feed-changes-meaningful-interactions) means (https://digiday.com/media/losing-hope-facebook-tells-publishers-big-change-coming-news-feed/), but here's an educated guess: Not much!* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/18/facebook-needs-to-kill-the-news-feed/)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Instagram (http://mashable.com/category/instagram/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Algorithms (http://mashable.com/category/algorithms/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Big Tech Companies (http://mashable.com/category/big-tech-companies/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/R9xw5wjShwU