I think that this is completely inaccurate.
Look - please read up on Facebook’s edgerank algorithm before you comment on this. The average person on facebook gets something like 1500 posts that could be shown to them in a day - and read a small fraction of them. Are you really suggesting to me that not making any effort to show to their users the specific Topics / messages that are of most interest to their users does not help in their return user / DAU / MAU metrics?
Really? - thats like saying that if someone on facebook isn’t getting the posts that they want on their feed isn’t getting the right friends. And you telling me that that the user’s on my forum who are creating 700 messages a day just aren’t discussing the right topics to be of interest to the broader user base - seems a little ridiculous.
As a software startup company person I view it as something in our control - and that control is the software platform you are using.
Why Do we Need A Facebook News Feed Algorithm?
Whenever someone visits their News Feed, there are around 1,500 stories waiting to be seen from the friends, people, and Pages that they follow. Since the average person doesn’t have the time to read through 1,500 posts, Facebook’s algorithm prioritizes these stories to show users what they’re most likely to be interested in.
Facebook seeks to show you the information that you want to see without making you dig for it through a bunch of stories that, let’s just face it, you’re really not that interested in seeing.
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