Facebook announced graph search with great fanfare but if I want to know something simple like getting a list of my recently added friends I can’t just type it into the search bar but have to search in Google and find that I have to go through recent activity tab.
Similarly I have told facebook that I speak English and German through the facebook menu. It still shows me French and Rumanian posts of my friends that I can’t read. It doesn’t offer to translate them. A simple idea like showing me English posts that my French friends post but not showing the French posts just doesn’t seem to be implemented.
When using the facebook app I can’t easily view all events that happen today.
What do all those facebook engineers do, when they don’t seem to go from the low hanging fruits?
You have to remember that you are not the customer for Facebook… you are the product.
Giving you more control over your timeline and the posts you see is good for you, but makes Facebook’s ability to charge for access to you through “promoted posts” substantially less inviting.
On the other hand, something like graph search allows the opportunity to compete with Google and LinkedIn.
Just now I had the experience of having Facebook helpfully place directly on my newsfeed a post by somebody who is not on my friends list, who happens to trigger the hell out of me and who I actively avoid reading about on Facebook as much as possible. Thanks Facebook, great algorithms you’ve got there.
Facebook announced graph search with great fanfare but if I want to know something simple like getting a list of my recently added friends I can’t just type it into the search bar but have to search in Google and find that I have to go through recent activity tab.
Similarly I have told facebook that I speak English and German through the facebook menu. It still shows me French and Rumanian posts of my friends that I can’t read. It doesn’t offer to translate them. A simple idea like showing me English posts that my French friends post but not showing the French posts just doesn’t seem to be implemented.
When using the facebook app I can’t easily view all events that happen today.
What do all those facebook engineers do, when they don’t seem to go from the low hanging fruits?
You have to remember that you are not the customer for Facebook… you are the product.
Giving you more control over your timeline and the posts you see is good for you, but makes Facebook’s ability to charge for access to you through “promoted posts” substantially less inviting.
On the other hand, something like graph search allows the opportunity to compete with Google and LinkedIn.
Just now I had the experience of having Facebook helpfully place directly on my newsfeed a post by somebody who is not on my friends list, who happens to trigger the hell out of me and who I actively avoid reading about on Facebook as much as possible. Thanks Facebook, great algorithms you’ve got there.