Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Yet Another Open letter to Facebook

Dear Facebook,

What's on my mind is that you appear to have lost yours. You have confused "most recent stories" with... I'm not sure what. I'm not accusing you of drug usage, but a comparison to opium nightmares would not be without merit.

I was initially appreciative when you returned the ability to select between "most recent stories" and your twisted concept of "top stories". But someone liking a status or commenting on one does not make it a recent post. The algorithm that selects which "recent stories" I will see is equally as stupid and pathetic as that choosing "top stories", a phrase which in any other context most English speakers understand. In the Facebook context, however, it appears to mean, "things selected somewhat at random after weeding out what we think you really want to see".

Is this another social experiment to see how much abuse your user base (a.k.a. merchandise) will put up with? That plot actually fits the data really well.

Sincerely,
A bunch of confused users

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