On my Facebook wall, I see the posts of maybe 6 or 7 friends out of the 150 that I have. I feel like they are who they are simply because they are there. Heavy, I know, but i’ll try to explain. I will typically unfriend people who I don’t interact with, whether online or in real life. If i don’t want to unfriend them, but I don’t want to see their posts, i’ll unfollow them, removing them from my feed. Now all thats left in my feed are people whom I’m good friends with, kinda am friends with, and people that i’m just kind of apathetic about. Of those people, the ones who post very often will inevitably fill up my feed more than the ones that rarely post. Facebook’s algorithms tracks and records how much time you take to pause and look at an ad when scrolling through your feed to determine your interest in that ad. I feel like they do the same with friends. And so maybe i’ve liked a friends post, or see their posts more often than others, or actually have an ongoing chat with them in Facebook, telling the algorithm that I have interest in this person, or at least that i find them interesting. These would be my influencers. These are the people that Facebook sites when telling me about this new page or product that my friends liked. These are the people whos friends are recommended to me as “people I may know.” These people have the greatest influence in my feed, simply because they have not been unfollowed, unfriended, or social enough.<\/p>\n
For what it’s worth, these people are actually funny and I enjoy seeing their posts on my feed. I just wonder what posts i’m missing from my other friends whose posts get lost in the algorithm. I mean, I see their posts when one of our mutual friends, and one of my influencers, likes their post, but beyond that, they rarely appear. Maybe it’s safe to say taht Facebook knows what it’s doing and that I wouldn’t be interested in the posts of others anyway. Maybe i’m reinforcing the algorithm by clicking on the links for products my influencers have also liked? Or maybe my influencers are chosen based on the number of mutual friends I have within my uniplex system. After all, we all end up liking each others stuff, so maybe just one of us has to be targeted, and the influencers algorithm will just do it’s magic and reach the whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On my Facebook wall, I see the posts of maybe 6 or 7 friends out of the 150 that I have. I feel like they are who they are simply because they are there. Heavy, I know, but i’ll try to explain. I will typically unfriend people who I don’t interact with, whether online or
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