![]() ![]() On the other, I told it that I didn’t need to know she was attending a vegan food meet-up a 12-hour drive away. Facebook had two signals to listen to: On one hand, I had explicitly asked to see her posts first. But another event popped up the next day. The first time this happened, I “hid” the post from my feed. Yet my News Feed keeps flooding with posts letting me know she had RSVPed to events-in Chicago. She lives nearly 800 miles away in Chicago, which Facebook knows. ![]() Sometimes, it seemed like Facebook wasn’t-or couldn’t-process what I was telling it at all.įor example, I earlier had chosen my best friend to be in my “see first,” group on Facebook. My News Feed basically stayed the same for the most part, even though I engaged far more with the content it fed me. It’s hard to know how Facebook processed all this feedback, if at all. I “liked” articles I had clicked on, “reacted” with love to distant friends’ profile pictures, and reacted “wow” to shocking political news. You can, however, “hide” a post, which presumably lets Facebook know that you want to see less content like it. You can’t tell Facebook, or any platform, that you found a post simply upsetting, irrelevant, or boring. There’s an option to “Give feedback on this post,” which only lets you tell Facebook that a post violated its Community Guidelines, meaning it contains nudity, violence, hate speech, or something else against the rules. ![]()
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