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Originally Posted by mickmoranis
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I use facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family but the bullshit they all post about makes me want to permanently avoid all of humanity.
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The problem is Facebook's sharing algorithms for news feed.
If a picture or video is shared and it does not use Facebook's image or video hosting service, it will be surpreessed. If an image or video does use those things, it will be promoted. This isn't particularly relevant to what we are talking about right now, but it is very shitty because it basically stifles people linking to original content and promotes pages that steal and rehost content without giving credit.
The real problem is that posts are limited on how many people they reach and how much they show up on people's wall,
however, the number of people who see a post is increased by two factors:
1. The person/page making the post can pay money to have it reach more people.
2. The more comments and reactions (not just likes, but angry faces, hearts, etc) a post gets, the more likely it is to show up. This means that the most controversial shit is what you end up seeing. Your friend makes a post "Going to the beach tomorrow, anyone want to come?" - you won't see it on your timeline. Your friend reacts with a like or a frowny face to some stupid political post with like 200,000 reactions / comments on it? TO THE TOP OF YOUR NEWS FEED!
It's not that your friends and family are stupid, it's that Facebook purposely shows you the most stupid shit they've interacted with almost exclusively.