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Title: Facebook lets you avoid the algorithm and control your own news feed Post by: HCK on July 11, 2015, 09:00:11 am Facebook lets you avoid the algorithm and control your own news feed
<article> <section class="page"> <p> After years of sorting news feeds primarily by algorithm, Facebook is letting users choose what they want to see first.</p><p> An update to Facebook’s iOS app (http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/07/updated-controls-for-news-feed/) expands the existing “News Feed Preferences” section with a way to choose whose updates appear at the top of the timeline. A similar update is coming to Facebook’s Android app and desktop website in the coming weeks.</p><p> Users can check out the new settings by pressing the “More” button in the Facebook app’s bottom-right corner, then tapping on “News Feed Preferences” and selecting “Prioritize who to see first.” This brings up a list of friends and Pages that users can mark as favorites. Unread updates from favorite contacts will always appear at the top of the News Feed, overriding Facebook’s predictive algorithms.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2946020/facebook-lets-you-avoid-the-algorithm-and-control-your-own-news-feed.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Facebook lets you avoid the algorithm and control your own news feed (http://www.macworld.com/article/2946020/facebook-lets-you-avoid-the-algorithm-and-control-your-own-news-feed.html#tk.rss_all) |