

Not something to be sniffed at or lost without a fight. As with any tool, it's about how you use it - something the blog post touches on - but our annoying newsfeed is another's freedom feed. You can see fewer Feed stories from a person, Page or group that you follow on Facebook. Saying a permanent goodbye to any of these irksome FB presences will require more desperate measures (i. No entity is ever too big to fail, and, ultimately, more people in the world aren't on Facebook than are, but would the world be a better place if it was gone? No, no it would not. Like hitting 'snooze' on your alarm, Facebook's Snooze feature simply delays the inevitable. The future of these huge entities is anything but certain thanks to courts, public opinion and other elements. Facebook has introduced a new option for muting people and pages which is a little less anti-social than unfollowing or unfriendliness them. The EU has recently fined Google for similar bad behaviour.


Is it an internet issue, though? While everyone and their mother has an algorithm these days, how you wield that algorithm matters and Facebook has been shown to be lacking in the ethics and morals department to make a buck for some time now. Of course, this isn’t just a Facebook issue - it’s an internet issue - so we collaborate with leading experts and publish in the top peer-reviewed journals." A blog post from David Ginsberg, Facebook's Director of Research, and Moira Burke, Research Scientist at Facebook shows a platform that is desperate to protect its key asset (the newsfeed) and also try and keep it intrinsically valuable to the user " In this post, we want to give you some insights into how the research team at Facebook works with our product teams to incorporate well-being principles, and review some of the top scientific research on well-being and social media that informs our work. A juggernaut that is (slowly) attempting to correct some bad issues they caused in the last 12 months. This isn't a (totally) Facebook bashing post - there have been too many of those this year. Facebook moves into 2018 looking like the +2 billion monthly user juggernaut that it is.
