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kat:
So yet again Facebook has issued another update that changes the way news-feeds and timelines work. Details can be found here, just in case it was missed (likely it was) - https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/04/news-feed-fyi-balancing-content-from-friends-and-pages/

--- Quote ---"The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you. This means we need to give you the right mix of updates from friends and public figures, publishers, businesses and community organizations you are connected to. This balance is different for everyone depending on what people are most interested in learning about every day. As more people and pages are sharing more content, we need to keep improving News Feed to get this balance right."
--- End quote ---
Correct this if it's wrong, but aren't we supposed to "filter content that matters" to us subscribing to, or unsubscribing from, pages and/or people we like or want to follow, not be told that by a third-party proxy?. Otherwise what's the point of the "Like", "Recommend" etc. buttons, unless those are there just to track and trace page and user activity?

ratty redemption [RIP]:
this reminds me of the recent bookmark manager update to chrome.

not only did google apparently remove the very useful feature of organizing a folder's content by name, they also added a "auto folders" list. which although at a glance does appear to be relevant to my personal bookmarks, it appears to be using some meta data as it created a folder called "playstation 4" which i have little to no interest in. except inside that folder, it put links to all the bookmarks from one of the yt let's players i follow. and i can't find a way to rename the auto folders or even delete them.

thankfully we can for the time being still manually create our own folders and organize our bookmarks how we want them. what really bothers me is if one day google decide that enough users aren't capable of using the manual folders, so they disable that feature and force all users to use the auto folders.

kat:
It fits into a larger 'philosophy' that says (but doesn't really mean) "we know you're too busy these days to manually do things yourself so we'll do it for you". It's a subtle way for services to take control over the service provided so they can feed you what they want whilst chipping in the odd thing or two you might recognise so you feel whatever it is they're doing is tailored to your needs when it's not. The bottom line is about their getting paid content in front of people (adverts).

ratty redemption [RIP]:
agreed, it's definitely not for the user's benefit.

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