Facebook is changing News Feed to make stories 'more personally informative'
 

Facebook is changing News Feed to make stories 'more personally informative'
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A**ther week, a**ther News Feed change.

Facebook an**unced a new change to the algorithim that powers its News Feed. This time, the change is meant to make the stories you see "more personally informative."

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The idea, Facebook says, is to create a new ranking system — personalized to each user — that is able to predict what will be the most informative to you based on your interests and habits. Those stories will then be given higher placement in your News Feed.

The company uses a few different signals to determine what qualifies as "personally informative" for each user. First, it takes feedback from its News Feed quality surveys, where users rank posts based on how informative they are. "Generally, we’ve found people find stories informative if they are related to their interests, if they engage people in broader discussions and if they contain news about the world around them," the company writes in a blog post outlining the change.* Read more...

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