Facebook Cuts Down on Automatic Updates in Your Friends' News Feeds
 

Facebook Cuts Down on Automatic Updates in Your Friends' News Feeds
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If you've ever been shocked to find out that all your Facebook friends k**w what song you're listening to on Spotify, here's some good news.

Facebook an**unced Tuesday that from **w on fewer "implicit stories" will make it into the News Feed. That's Facebook's way of describing automatic updates from third-party apps

See also: Facebook's News Feed: What Changed and Why


"We’ve found that stories people choose to explicitly share from third party apps are typically more interesting and get more engagement in News Feed than stories shared from third party apps without explicit action," the company wrote in a blog post. "We’ve also heard that people often feel surprised or confused by stories that are shared without taking an explicit action. In the coming months, we will continue to prioritize explicitly shared stories from apps in News Feed over implicitly shared stories." Read more...

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