An example of the impact of design choices and the evolution of habits around them. When we post a link on Facebook, it shows us a preview of that link right here in the feed before we even click on it. Can we imagine what the world would be like today if Facebook had neverContinue reading “Impact of Design: Link previews in Facebook feed and how it changed the world”
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The intense scrutiny Facebook added on people posting political ads
Facebook, in principle, has a very solid premise. An online social graph where every individual is a real person and has the same social norms and consequences as in the real world is a social graph that is good at regulating itself. But they added in non-people into this graph to generate revenue and endedContinue reading “The intense scrutiny Facebook added on people posting political ads”
Facebook and it’s paid spam problem
Imagine if Gmail got rid of their spam filters and grey mail filters saying: we live in a democracy and private companies shouldn’t be in the business of censoring “speech”. That’s the argument Mark Zuckerberg is making about why Facebook doesn’t want to deal with its “spam” problem. The difference of course is that onContinue reading “Facebook and it’s paid spam problem”
Facebook investing in people feeling inspired and positive
Facebook is investing in features that are bound to reduce “engagement” as it was measured the old way. The old metric was “time spent”. Now the new metric is time spent “with intention, being inspired and feeling positive.” Short-term investors saw this and decided that it’s a bad thing – as engagement goes down, soContinue reading “Facebook investing in people feeling inspired and positive”
Facebook: stop worrying about sharing, live your life, leave the rest to us
Facebook launched the Like button 18 months ago and it has had a huge impact on how people browse and share information and form associations with other entities. Within days websites had integrated Facebook social plugins which made it super easy to feed stuff back to Facebook and share with your friends in a frictionlessContinue reading “Facebook: stop worrying about sharing, live your life, leave the rest to us”