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On the Facebook app, Feed is the first screen to appear, partially leading most users to think of the feed as Facebook itself. [32] The Facebook Feed operates as a revolving door of articles, pages the user has liked, status updates, app activity, likes from other users photos and videos. [35] This operates an arena of social discussion.
The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank), Facebook selects a handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive.
On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent [62] on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the activity of another user. [63] The sorting and display of stories in a user's News Feed is governed by the EdgeRank algorithm. [64]
Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats. Facebook has internally prototyped a tabbed version of the News Feed for mobile that ...
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The Like button is one of Facebook's social plug-ins, which are features for websites outside Facebook as part of its Open Graph. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Speaking at the company's F8 developer conference on April 21, 2010, the day of the launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said "We are building a Web where the default is social".
So, instead of the blank space that used to be there above the news feed, Facebook will show grayed-out icons of some frequently contacted friends, regardless of whether they’ve ever posted to their Facebook story before." [12] Plugin extensions to Chrome [13] and Firefox [14] have been written specifically to hide Facebook stories. As of ...