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I believe this was a response to people interacting less with the feed and posting less about their own life.. its almost morphed into a reddit cross social feed now. And they're only expanding the bounds more and more, Facebook news if it takes off will also change this significantly once people start sharing more of that content.

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I have a Facebook account, but rarely log in (maybe once every few months or so). I just logged in to check, and I don't see any news in the feed. The only thing I see are posts from old classmates and similar who still use Facebook.

I even logged in using incognito mode, using both Firefox and Chromium without any adblocker and I still didn't see anything except for posts by friends (and a few ads of course).

Perhaps I'm not getting anything else because I rarely log in, so they are hoping to get me back in by showing me stuff that I'm more likely to want?

> I even logged in using incognito mode

This doesn't do what you think it does.

When you go to facebook.com incognito means you wont give them any of your normal cookies so facebook will be all like "Who is this guy???"

But then you log in, so facebook goes "oh I see it's lokedhs! welcome back!"

Incognito mode is designed to be undetectable. So from Facebook's point of view it looks like you signed in just like normal, and they will give you content just like normal.

I did it because when I activate incognito mode it disabled my extensions. The main reason for me doing that was that I wanted to make sure that it wasn't my adblocker that filtered it out.

Sorry for not being clear about that.

The term used to describe the drop-off in organic content was "content collapse". I do remember it.

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