Monday, November 10, 2014

Facebook gives you more control over your news feed – 20minutos.es

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Facebook has made some changes to the social network to make it easier for the user to control what appears in their News Feed (news service). The company has released a new set of menu options and news service allow users to customize content types you see in your News Feed in both Mobile Facebook application as on the website.

In the setup menu of the News Feed, Facebook shows you the friends you interact more On the menu setup of the News Feed, Facebook shows you the friends you interact with most and the least friends. With this information the user can choose to unfollow people who will not see or “reconnect” with them , in the words of Facebook. The proper News Feed also offers new ways to provide feedback message types that the user does not want to see. Now, instead of choosing to stop following someone, you can choose to see fewer stories of that friend or page that we follow.

The changes are part of an effort to make the content relevant to a user are more important in your News Feed, said the Facebook product manager, Greg Marra. In one day, the news service user about 1,500 different stories but people only see about 150. News Feed algorithms take into account the previous user actions appear the photos you’ve bookmarked, the links you clicked, etc. but also what kind of Internet connection you have said Marra

“We know that the classification is not perfect … can not have only considered clicks which makes user to determine which stories are really interesting for him,” Marra said. The new settings menu is now available for the Facebook app and the web version while the other customization features will be launched in the coming weeks.

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