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Facebook original sharing declining by skip 04/28/2016, 9:14am PDT
http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/facebook-sharing-crisis.html

According to The Information, "original broadcast sharing"--i.e., posts consisting of users' own words and images--fell 21 percent from 2014 to 2015, contributing to a 5.5 percent decrease in total sharing. In response, the company created a task force in London whose mission is to devise a strategy to stem the ebb and get people sharing again. Among the measures taken so far: a change in the News Feed algorithm that privileges original status updates over professional content like news links and viral videos, and Wednesday's mishap-marred rollout of a new live-video-streaming feature.


It's also easier to clean up a Facebook feed by blocking Buzzfeed so I approve.

You've probably noticed how the "friends" who show up in your News Feed most often aren't the ones whose lives you're most interested in but simply the ones who have a lot to say. According to confidential data obtained by The Information, more than 60 percent of users share no personal content in a given week, while the remaining 39 percent share an average of five posts.


And that 39% lead the most boring lives. They may even start paying people to post. Facebook's stock did very well yesterday so they're clearly not finished but Reddit already exists as a place to share memes. If FB isn't bringing a personal touch, then it's basically glorified White Pages and exists so we can let an old college acquaintance know we'll be visiting their town in a few months, which would be less satisfying to Zuckerberg but better for humanity.
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Can we add Facebook to this? by fuckers 09/14/2015, 7:36pm PDT NEW
    Their new dislike button just pisses me off in principle by skip 09/27/2015, 8:53am PDT NEW
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