{"id":56606,"date":"2018-01-12T06:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56606"},"modified":"2018-01-12T06:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:37:22","slug":"facebook-making-big-change-news-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/facebook-making-big-change-news-feed.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is making a big change to your news feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook is making a big change to your news feed<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Facebook is radically altering the formula that determines what bubbles to the top of people’s news feed, part of sweeping changes the giant social network has planned to address growing controversy over the role it plays in people’s lives and in society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon, Facebook says you will see more status updates from friends and family that spark meaningful social exchanges \u2014 parents discussing what bedtime stories to read to children, a friend seeking advice on places to travel or a newsy article or video on a topic you care about. What Facebook wants you to spend less time doing: passively scrolling through updates on your timeline, reading articles and watching videos, but not interacting with others.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Recently we’ve gotten feedback from our community that public content \u2014 posts from businesses, brands and media \u2014 is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other,” Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post Thursday. “I’m changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Zuckerberg has been laying the groundwork for making that fundamental shift in all of Facebook’s products. He recently told investors he wants Facebook to encourage “meaningful social interactions” and downplayed the importance of how much time people spend there.<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s because the move could come at a high price. Zuckerberg anticipates Facebook’s 2 billion-plus users will spend less time on and be less engaged with the social network \u2014 including watching videos, a lucrative new revenue stream. But, he says, “if we do the right thing, I believe that will be good for our community and our business over the long term, too.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Pressure has been building on Facebook and its CEO as the toxic content flowing through Facebook \u2014 violent live videos, fabricated news articles and divisive messages from Russian operatives to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign \u2014 has been blamed for ripping holes in the social fabric.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another wave of criticism pummeling Facebook: that the company’s products exploit vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, hijacking their time and attention and undermining their well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Facebook has begun to acknowledge that some social media use can be harmful to mental health, a backflip for the Silicon Valley company which, until recently, rejected a growing body of research showing that Facebook use can spur negative feelings. Last month, Facebook released its own research demonstrating that when people connect with each other on social media, it has a positive effect. On the other hand, passively scrolling through social media does not.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concession did not happen in a vacuum. In November, Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, took aim at Facebook in an interview with Axios, saying he and other executives created a “social-validation feedback loop” to make Facebook psychologically addictive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Early Facebook executive and former vice president of growth, Chamath Palihapitiya, also accused Facebook of creating “short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops” that are “destroying how society works.” He later softened his remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that negativity may already be showing up in Facebook’s numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pivotal Research analyst Brian Wieser says his analysis of recent Nielsen data shows consumption of Facebook declined in August and September. It’s unclear if that’s because Facebook already accounted for such a big chunk of our digital lives or because people are growing increasingly frustrated with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Facebook is responding to a decline in consumption, not just encouraging a decline in consumption,” Wieser says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracy Garza, a neurodiversity consultant in the Bay Area, says she’s using Facebook a lot less than before. She says she’s turned off by Facebook’s unrelenting push to make money off, well, everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

“They don’t realize there comes a time when many or us are going to say ‘I’m just tired of being the product here,'” Garza said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The company’s mounting difficulties prompted Zuckerberg to declare last week that his personal challenge for the year \u2014 which in the past has run the gamut from learning Mandarin to slaughtering his own meat \u2014 would be to fix what ails Facebook. A big part of that effort would be “making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source;-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/2018\/01\/11\/facebook-newsfeed-big-change\/1023331001\/<\/span><\/p>\n

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