Facebook will now update your News Feed based on time spent on a story<article>
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You’ve been warned: Facebook is about to become even more captivating.</p><p>
On Friday
Facebook announced that it will start taking into account how much time users spent viewing a particular story as a determining factor for that story showing up at the top of your News Feed. Basically, the stories you take the time to read (or watch) will be prioritized over the stories that you scroll right through out of general disinterest.</p><p>
“We’ve discovered that if people spend significantly more time on a particular story in News Feed than the majority of other stories they look at, this is a good sign that content was relevant to them,” wrote Facebook software engineers Ansha Yu and Sami Tas. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2935435/facebook-will-now-update-your-news-feed-based-on-time-spent-on-a-story.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Facebook will now update your News Feed based on time spent on a story
