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03-02-2018, 09:08 AM
Facebook admits splitting the News Feed in two was a dumb idea
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Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/) just did something it very rarely does: admit it was wrong.
The social network is officially ending both iterations of its "Explore Feed" feature, which created two separate feeds for users.
SEE ALSO: How to turn off Facebook's new face recognition features (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/how-to-turn-off-facebook-face-recognition/)
To recap: Facebook has been experimenting with two different versions of an Explore Feed feature. The first was a dedicated tab (https://mashable.com/2017/10/18/facebook-explore-second-news-feed-update/?utm_campaign&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source) that surfaced content from pages you didn't follow based on Facebook's understanding of your interests.*
The second, which was confusingly also called Explore Feed, was a more aggressive experiment that launched last fall (https://mashable.com/2017/10/18/facebook-explore-second-news-feed-update/) in six countries, which created one feed just for posts from friends and another feed for all content from pages — that is, posts directly from a brand, group, or publisher. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/01/facebook-ends-explore-news-feed-test/)
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Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/) just did something it very rarely does: admit it was wrong.
The social network is officially ending both iterations of its "Explore Feed" feature, which created two separate feeds for users.
SEE ALSO: How to turn off Facebook's new face recognition features (https://mashable.com/2018/02/28/how-to-turn-off-facebook-face-recognition/)
To recap: Facebook has been experimenting with two different versions of an Explore Feed feature. The first was a dedicated tab (https://mashable.com/2017/10/18/facebook-explore-second-news-feed-update/?utm_campaign&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source) that surfaced content from pages you didn't follow based on Facebook's understanding of your interests.*
The second, which was confusingly also called Explore Feed, was a more aggressive experiment that launched last fall (https://mashable.com/2017/10/18/facebook-explore-second-news-feed-update/) in six countries, which created one feed just for posts from friends and another feed for all content from pages — that is, posts directly from a brand, group, or publisher. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/01/facebook-ends-explore-news-feed-test/)
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