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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the less-time-suck dept.

That's enough angry Facebooking for you:

Late on Thursday, Facebook announced a plan to emphasize more "meaningful" interactions on the platform. Posts are considered meaningful when they generate lots of comments, likes, and shares. Facebook's researchers have found that when people are actively commenting on posts, they tend to feel better about using social networks — and feel better about themselves in general.

The change may sound relatively small, but it's likely to have significant consequences for the broad subset of Facebook users that aren't individual people: media companies, small businesses, big brands, and everyone else who has come to see Facebook's News Feed as an essential way to reach audiences and customers. In a post yesterday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the pages managed by those businesses are likely to reach far fewer people in 2018.

"As we roll this out, you'll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media," he wrote. "And the public content you see more will be held to the same standard -- it should encourage meaningful interactions between people."

He added: "Now, I want to be clear: by making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down. But I also expect the time you do spend on Facebook will be more valuable. And if we do the right thing, I believe that will be good for our community and our business over the long term too."


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 17 2018, @02:51AM (6 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday January 17 2018, @02:51AM (#623402) Journal

    I need 1 Gbps. Maybe 56 Gbps.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:08AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:08AM (#623431)

    Seek help IRL not online, or you know just kill yourself

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:12AM (4 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:12AM (#623434) Journal

      Internet too slow; can't find IRL friends on Facebook VR.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:15AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:15AM (#623435)

        Well I think you know what to do

        • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:19AM (1 child)

          by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:19AM (#623438) Journal

          Yeah. Piss on your grave under the bridge.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:27AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:27AM (#623442)

            Look just because I'm living under a bridge doesn't mean I'm wrong, things have gone far afield and is harming people, it's not necessarily a bad idea to call for an INTERNET INTERVENTION junkies and sick people don't necessarily know what they are doing and in this case we need to take all of silicon valley into a room and do some deprogramming from the cult they have been indoctrinated into

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:20AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:20AM (#623439)

        Banks of 56k modems should be easily available from the remnant of AOL these days, BBS and I don't mean rule 34