Sunday, October 26, 2014

Yeah, You Can Dislike Posts on Facebook (Just Not How You Think)

It's up to you to fix your broken News Feed on Facebook. That said, some easy tips are being provided by Emil Protalinski at Venture Beat.  Two of the tips are "Quick Fixes" designed to get uninteresting posts and those who post them out of your feed. Three additional tips take a bit more effort but can be done a few at a time by just eliminating unnecessary pages and "friends" or at least quieting those "friends" posts.
I agree with all of these actions and his reminder that an algorithm is only as good as the info that you give it. The more it knows what you don't want to see, the better it will get at keeping posts like them and the posters from taking over your feed.
We know that no "dislike" button will ever come to Facebook, but that doesn't mean that it is closed to hearing your opinions through your actions that say "I dislike this".

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