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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.
Facebook typically floats stories to the top of your News Feed based on how likely people are to interact with them, but as you can probably attest, that's not how it works in real life.
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 is making some big changes to its flagship feature in the wake of criticism about how its news feed can be manipulated. Facebook is making some big changes to its flagship feature in the ...
Facebook is making it easier to bring back the original chronological News Feed, rather than forcing you to use its algorithm-powered feed.
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".
Facebook has internally prototyped a tabbed version of the News Feed for mobile that includes the standard Most Relevant feed, the existing Most Recent feed of reverse chronological posts that was ...