I don’t use Facebook, but I should try something similar with my RSS feeds.
I find it interesting that facebook responds to commenting by showing you more of the same. IIRC, posts that aggravate people are also the most likely to inspire them to comment. That suggests Facebook is effectively rigged to piss you off.
Does that match people’s experience? It matches my priors, but they’re weak priors, since I won’t touch the service with a ten foot pole.
I actually organize my RSS feed by signal:noise ratio. So I do basically this process with each feed, or perhaps just rough-estimate it from the first 10 items or so. Once I have the rough signal:noise I put it in the appropriate folder. I found that this pretty much corrected the “giant wall of crap” problem immediately, so that it was easy to find the things which were important and leave the high volume slim pickings feeds for last. (Or better yet, in many cases not at all.)
Facebook is agnostic towards content. So yes. Sometimes it can be an outrage machine, sometimes it can be a happy-joy machine. I suspect the extra Emojis help to classify and filter posts too. If you angry emoji something you can react in a way that maybe it will show you less of that. But I am unsure if that’s actually what happens.
I don’t use Facebook, but I should try something similar with my RSS feeds.
I find it interesting that facebook responds to commenting by showing you more of the same. IIRC, posts that aggravate people are also the most likely to inspire them to comment. That suggests Facebook is effectively rigged to piss you off.
Does that match people’s experience? It matches my priors, but they’re weak priors, since I won’t touch the service with a ten foot pole.
Facebook is rigged to keep you checking Facebook as often as possible, regardless of the emotions that may give you.
I actually organize my RSS feed by signal:noise ratio. So I do basically this process with each feed, or perhaps just rough-estimate it from the first 10 items or so. Once I have the rough signal:noise I put it in the appropriate folder. I found that this pretty much corrected the “giant wall of crap” problem immediately, so that it was easy to find the things which were important and leave the high volume slim pickings feeds for last. (Or better yet, in many cases not at all.)
Facebook is agnostic towards content. So yes. Sometimes it can be an outrage machine, sometimes it can be a happy-joy machine. I suspect the extra Emojis help to classify and filter posts too. If you angry emoji something you can react in a way that maybe it will show you less of that. But I am unsure if that’s actually what happens.