> A Facebook page that I'm following paying money to reach me is an ad according to Facebook. To me, that's extortion.
How would you fix that? The only thing I can think of would be a chronological feed where everybody sees every post.
How would you fix that? The only thing I can think of would be a chronological feed where everybody sees every post.
The model they currently use serves two goals: to extort money from fanpages, and to hook users up by intermittent reinforcement.
They probably already record every item displayed on screen (and how long for, and whether my cursor hovered it, etc.) so a list of items I saw (on any device) in the chronological order I saw them should just be a simple db lookup away.
If you build a cockpit by measuring everyone's dimensions and averaging them, you'll end up with a cockpit that fits nobody[0]. I believe the same is true for feeds as well.
There's an amount of information that works for the average Facebook user. However, none of us are precisely on that average. By building algorithms whose mission is max consumption by the average user, they've made their product useless to everyone.
[0] https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
Honestly, everything this company does is shady beyond all shame.
Twitter keeps fucking around with their timeline feed, but they've preserved a "chronological, show me everything" option through all of their other bad ideas.
After a few refreshes of my Twitter homepage in a short time span, I did a little research: I've edited the CSS to make the distinction of "liked" tweets more obvious. Over 50% of "fresh" content turned out to be likes by the people I follow that are in no way chronological.
You can fight it... for now, but I assume not for long. I've stopped relying on Twitter for that same reason I've stopped relying on Facebook.
Is that the name for the "recent tweet from X" notifications? Those have made Twitter notifications completely useless for me. :(
As far as I know, there's no universal term for them. Since we already associate darkness with bad UX patterns, "shadow notifications" as a subset of "dark patterns" has a nice ring to it.