{"id":7304,"date":"2012-05-30T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/facebook-news-feed-settings-random-or-not\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:06:07","slug":"facebook-news-feed-settings-random-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/facebook-news-feed-settings-random-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook News Feed Settings: Random or Not, Biggest Secrets Revealed &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2010\/10\/18\/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets.html'>Facebook News Feed Settings: Random or Not, Biggest Secrets Revealed &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2010\/10\/18\/the-facebook-news-feed-how-it-works-the-10-biggest-secrets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>. (It&rsquo;s from Oct 2010, though. But it&rsquo;s probably still relevant) I&rsquo;d noticed that I never see updates from certain friends and wondered why. Turns out: It&rsquo;s complicated. And it&rsquo;s completely up to Facebook&rsquo;s filtering system.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Facebook Has a Bias Against Newcomers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Facebook&rsquo;s Catch-22: <\/strong>To get exposure on Facebook, you need friends to interact with your updates in certain ways<\/li>\n<li><strong>&ldquo;Most Recent&rdquo; News Is Censored, Too.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&ldquo;Stalking&rdquo; Your Friends Won&rsquo;t Get You Noticed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Having Friends Who Stalk You WILL Help Your Popularity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Links Trump Status Updates.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Photos and Videos Trump Links.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Power of Comments.<\/strong> If items you post attract comments from a few friends, it clearly raises your visibility overall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This all kind of sucks, actually. I hate not seeing an update from one of my friends only to find out it&rsquo;s because Facebook didn&rsquo;t consider it IMPORTANT enough.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook News Feed Settings: Random or Not, Biggest Secrets Revealed &#8211; The Daily Beast Good post. (It&rsquo;s from Oct 2010, though. But it&rsquo;s probably still relevant) I&rsquo;d noticed that I never see updates from certain friends and wondered why. Turns out: It&rsquo;s complicated. And it&rsquo;s completely up to Facebook&rsquo;s filtering system. Some highlights: Facebook Has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2336,2697,2696],"class_list":["post-7304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-facebook","tag-filtering","tag-news-feed","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}