That is not what users expect. It is called a timeline for a reason. Twitter works that way and nobody thinks it's broken. If someone spams your timeline it's really easy to unfollow and solve the problem.
I don't want to have to go to all my friends' walls to see what they're saying. I want it to be in my feed, unless I explicitly remove it, or give Facebook permission to choose. I'm not holding my breath, though.
My impression of Facebook's feed algorithm is that it takes your activity and the popularity of posts into account. If you look at the feed often, you'll see all the content. However, if you've been away for 5-10 hours, facebook will show you the most popular stuff of that time period. It may be that they stick the rest in "under the fold" of feed, but I'm not sure.
You are correct. But then, how does it help me when my feed shows posts just because someone paid Facebook to promote those posts? If a post is going to create bad experience for me, it will be a bad experience irrespective of whether its paid or free.
The thing is: there's going to be a lot fewer such bad experiences when they cost the person wanting you to have them money. And it may provide an incentive to make promoted content a less bad experience, because in order to maximize revenue, Facebook had to balance the price of promoted content with its acceptance by users: content that is a better experience will cost less to promote because more of it can be shown to users before they get annoyed and leave Facebook.
> That is not what users expect. It is called a timeline for a reason.
Is that reason because things are roughly sorted by time?
It's a timeline of interesting events in the recent history of your friends and interests. Being a "timeline" doesn't mean that it has to include everything. Should a timeline of the history of the USA include every event in the history of China? Not if you actually want to succeed in communicating any subset of the information on the timeline effectively...
People expect to sign in and see stuff about their friends. They don't expect to have to hand manage every single connection they ever make to decide who is or isn't worth paying attention to.
> Twitter works that way and nobody thinks it's broken.
1) Twitter has extremely different use cases.
2) I think Twitter is horribly broken. I rely on non-broken external clients to sort and filter tweets; most high volume users do.
> If someone spams your timeline it's really easy to unfollow and solve the problem.
Again, Twitter is a totally different use case. I might not want to unfriend my Aunt, who loves me very much, but I sure as hell don't want to see her every little post. I don't interact with her messages, so Facebook stops showing them to me. That problem seems solved to me...
>Again, Twitter is a totally different use case. I might not want to unfriend my Aunt, who loves me very much, but I sure as hell don't want to see her every little post. I don't interact with her messages, so Facebook stops showing them to me. That problem seems solved to me...
People whose FB posts annoy me, I can easily remove from my newsfeed without unfriending them or waiting for the algorithm to kick in.
