Post #2057193

@_elena My personal feeling about algorithmic feeds is pretty much the same as "targeted" ads. In this case, they miss much more than they hit. So you end up with a feed you mostly ignore. For example, I was on Facebook many years ago (long since left). I had both friends and family and news type things (for example Progressive magazine) in my feed. The posts from friends and family were short and I could see what they were up to with what I could see in the feed (i.e. I didn't have to click on their posts). News articles I had to click on to see what they were about. A lot of them I didn't actually read once I saw what they were about, click bait is like that. Didn't take long before my entire feed was news things -- no friend or family at all. And the news things became more and more clickbait as the algorithm drug up new things for my feed. I could scroll for hours before I saw something actually useful. Among other things, this is what killed FB for me.