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Algorithmic Awareness in Facebook (Toronto Mike)

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Did you know your Facebook news feed was determined by a proprietary algorithm? Facebook looks at your level of engagement with the friend, the perceived value of the content, a whole bunch of stuff... then determines what it will serve up to you on your news feed.

I've hated this concept since Facebook introduced it. I don't want their algorithm to determine what I see and what I don't. As a result, I haven't visited my Facebook news feed in years.

I leverage Facebook lists to replace the wall, thus eliminating the dreaded algorithm. Here's how you create such a list:

  1. Scroll down to Friends on the left side of your News Feed and click More.