One of the least understood and arguably most disliked features of the Facebook user experience is the social network’s all-important, algorithmically-sorted News Feed. For the vast majority of users who don’t take the time to proactively “tune” their feed, it can often seem like a haphazard mishmash of forgettable photos, political rants, ads they don’t care about and status updates from friends they haven’t seen in years. Which is a shame, from Facebook’s perspective at any rate, since the News Feed is so core to how people interact with the largest social network in the world.
And even though the reasoning behind why certain posts get ranked high in the News Feed, and why some don’t even get surfaced at all, has baffled and confounded users for years, Facebook has now finally decided to start explaining itself. Specifically, why the feed shows you what it does.
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Facebook will finally start explaining its choices for your News Feed originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 1 Apr 2019 at 22:02:15 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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