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Facebook News Feed
December of 2012 may be the most engagement action my Facebook has seen since I joined the site in 2007.
This isn’t about my Facebook page insights or promoted ads interaction. This is purely the number of engagement announcements from family and friends that have hit my feed over the past 30 days. That number is nine for anyone curious (seven in the past ten days, Merry Christmas people.)
For many, this deluging of their news feeds is irritating at its best and downright depressing at its worst. I’ve listened to many a friend wail on about the inadequacy they feel seeing posts racing in with stories of the accomplishments and life events that my friends are missing from their life. Some are frustrated because they have actively opted out of such milestones themselves and don’t care to have others’ milestones thrust on them. Others long to click that fabled link that will finally allow them to update their relationship status with a hunger that gnaws at their heart.
One girlfriend told me, after a healthy amount of martini consumption, that she was “quitting Facebook” because she couldn’t stand the seemingly constant reminders that everyone else seemed to be getting what they wanted from life but she was barely treading water. Treading water meant that she had a rocking triathlete’s body, a condo in the West End, a successful career, a stream of suitors at her door, an adorable kitten with white paw mittens, and much more. She was living a life that everyone else should seemingly covet, but she still couldn’t shake the sadness.
I nearly bit through my lip to refrain from asking her if she was planning to become a recluse and hide under a rock for the rest of time. Otherwise, I had no idea how she was going to avoid such life event updates in her world. Even when they aren’t cluttering our feeds, life events and milestones are a part of our daily lives.
From holiday dinners with your cousin’s new(est) boyfriend to co-workers’ baby announcements and college friends wedding receptions, there’s no escaping the changes in the lives of the people around you.
As a person who is almost always on the road and separated (often on the other side of the planet) from my closest friends and family, my Facebook news feed is like the local newspaper in my hometown. A daily digest of pictures and updates of the lives of the people who matter most.
This was not a quick update or implementation. I’ve spent months cultivating my lists and subscriptions to carefully architect a news feed that (at least on the web interface) generally provides exactly the information I want to know.
The first step to building a Facebook news feed you are excited to sift through is understanding Facebook’s EdgeRank system. EdgeRank is an algorithm that determines what updates (edges) make it to your news feed and where they land in the results. It is based on three metrics:
  • Affinity – How closely connected are you? This is a one-way metric that looks how you interact with the poster. Things like Liking, Messaging, Commenting, Sharing, and Search all matter
  • Weight – How valuable are your interactions? Commenting on a friend’s baby belly pic is going to carry more weight in your algorithm than Liking a picture of their sonogram. Usually the actions that take more time and effort are going to be the things that yield the highest results
  • Time Decay – How old is the edge? Good news, updates generally have a pretty short shelf life. This does not mean that your fraternity brother’s face smashing cake picture is going to disappear from your feed after a couple hours. It will eventually though. Have faith.
It is also important to accept the fact that Facebook may be a free service but they are not a charity. Something has to pay for the programmers to update the news feed in a new way that will incite fury and ire among its users. One way that they are doing this is through their upcoming Facebook Gifts service. Still in a state of beta-limbo, gifts will alert you to big life event changes and milestones that might warrant a gift to your friends. Cause nothing says “Congrats on the new addition to your family” quite like a $50 gift card to Starbucks. And you were wondering why you suddenly kept getting random life event notifications in the upper right hand corner of your homepage. (You can get rid of those by mousing over the right side of the notification and clicking the X that appears.)
Cut Friends Out Of Your Facebook Life
Facebook subconsciously engrains in us the belief that everyone we connect with on our profiles are our friends. Yet Robin Dunbar, an anthropology professor at the University of Oxford, has spent years researching the cognitive limit of people with whom an individual can have a social relationship with. That number lies somewhere between 100-230, with most studies proving it is closest to 150. This also applies to social networks. Meaning that you are have some tough choices ahead. Some people will ruthlessly go through their friends lists, “unfriending” anyone they have not communicated with over a certain time. Others will refuse to “accept” friend requests from people they do not have a close current personal connection with. I prefer a third, less harsh, option…
Create Friend Lists
This one takes time investment on the front end (when I created my lists I had approximately 650 friends on my profile.) Fortunately Facebook has begun making it easier by allowing you to quickly categorize folks into two separate categories, Close Friends and Acquaintances. You can assign people by opening your full friends list and hovering over the Friend button to the right of their name. It takes a while to sort through everyone, but by the end you have defined groups of the people that you can follow by clicking the list name in the left sidebar of your Facebook homepage. This still doesn’t fully solve the problem of random folks random updates leaking their way through to your news feed…
Update Individual News Feed Settings
This step is best done in tandem with the creation of your new friends lists as the option lies under the same Friend button pull-down menu. Instead of assigning a list, however, you want to click on the Settings under Show In News Feed. Here you can choose to receive All Updates, Most Updates, or Only Important. For those being super diligent, you can hand pick the types of updates you want to get from certain people.
Manipulate Your News Feed Results
If you’d rather just avoid the news feed assault, there are a number of applications that can replace photos or fully filter updates. Travis Jamison, owner of Supremacy SEO and a professional search result optimizer, recommended Unbaby.me as an easy way to swap out various baby photos with those of your choosing. “Unbaby.me helps me focus my exposure on events that are more related to my life. I can’t even fathom having a little one of my own, and all of the posts that I see with babies are just completely out of touch with my world. ” Pug pics now flood Jamison’s feed.
With a little extra work you could install a browser extension like Social Fixer for Facebook, which will allow you to filter updates on your feed by variables like keyword, activity type, and Facebook users. This little extension came in particularly useful during the recent election season.
When All Else Fails, Unsubscribe
The truth hurts. That truth is that most likely your 7th grade biology lab partner did not friend you on Facebook because they genuinely wanted to re-kindle your stunted study hall conversations. They friended you so they could see your pictures to see how time has treated you, where you are working or what you are doing, and do a quick scan of your wall. Curiosity killed their cat. They most likely will barely look at your profile after that. So when you are subjected to the 92nd picture of their family’s apple picking adventure week, including neighbor kids that you have even less of a connection to than your random middle school acquaintances current spawn, you can rest assured that they are not going to be insulted that you no longer care to see what is happening in their world. They don’t really care what is going on in yours either.


Elisa Doucette
Elisa Doucette, Contributor
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Make Your Facebook News Feed Stop The Rings And Babies


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Hover your mouse to the upper right hand corner of their update on your news feed and a small arrow will appear. Click the arrow and a drop-down will descend with a couple options. By clicking on Hide you will hide that particular story from your feed. Take it one step further and select the first link that appears after you hide the story – Change what updates you receive from XXX. You’ll recognize this menu from the one on your friends list, but at the bottom is a magical new field: Unsubscribe. You’ll still be friends with them. They can still stalk you at random hours, and you can stalk back if you feel so inclined. Occasionally you might even want to say hi or offer congratulations and condolences on various life events. Your distant social relationship is maintained, but neither of you have to keep the other in your 150 cognitive limit.
Facebook does not have to be a weapon of mass emotional destruction or a distraction to your social interactions. Like any community, it is filled with many levels and tiers of interpersonal relationships that have come together to make you the person you are in this very moment.
By taking the time to optimize your news feed results, you’ll be able to keep in touch with the most important people in your life. You’ll realize how much this matters when you live 8,000 miles away from them.
Elisa Doucette writes about modern feminism, relationships and life lessons for young professionals as she travels around the world. She spent two hours Skyping with her family at 3 AM on Christmas Day to make sure that she was about to share the holiday season, and loves the magic of such technology. You can visit her at ElisaDoucette.com or follow her on Twitter at @elisadoucette.



Facebook Shares Fall Briefly Amid Report of Instagram Quitters


Instagram may or may not have lost some users over the last week, depending on whom you ask, which caused Facebook’s stock to fall briefly on Friday. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
The fallout from Instagram’s terms of service change that wasn’t actually changed continued Friday. Facebook, which owns the popular social media app, saw its stock price fall 3 percent amid a report that the TOS flap cost Instagram 25 percent of its users.
Whether that number is accurate — Instagram insists it isn’t — was almost beside the point as Facebook saw shares fall to $25.22 before gaining almost all of it back a few hours later. It is further evidence that Instagram completely blew it by ticking everybody off with the idea that it would license user photos to advertisers without telling, or paying, users. Instagram insists the whole thing was due to confusion over the rewritten terms, then made the point moot by reverting to advertising rules set out in the TOS published in April, 2010.
Friday’s dust-up started when AppData — a research firm that tracks user numbers for iOS, Android and Facebook apps — said Instagram had lost 25 percent of its users since attempting to change its terms of service. According to AppData’s numbers, Instagram had about 16.4 million active daily users last week, but only 12.4 million as of Thursday. It appears that the New York Post broke the story; it was followed by a dozen or so tech blogs. Wall Street got wind of it, and Facebook’s stock price started falling even as Instagram insisted the report was bogus.
“This data is inaccurate,” an Instagram spokeswoman told Wired by e-mail. “We continue to see strong and steady growth in both registered and active users of Instagram.” She declined, however, to quantify “strong and steady growth” and would not provide actual user numbers.
Investors appear to have gotten the message, because Facebook shares had rebounded to $26.03, just three cents less than Thursday’s closing price, by mid-afternoon Friday.
AppData, widely cited my major tech publications (and many mainstream news outlets too) as an authority on such matters, also reported user drops for Pinterest, FarmVille, and a number of other popular apps. But while AppData’s findings are generally considered accurate, they don’t appear to paint a full picture in this case. AppData’s metrics come from Instagram users who have linked the app to their Facebook accounts. According to a report from Marketing Land, only about 20 to 30 percent Instagram users have done this. While AppData indeed did record a drop in Instagram’s active users over the last week, it did so by measuring a slice of Instagram users, not the entire pie.
Although Instagram denies there’s been a decline in users, its refusal to offer specifics makes you wonder just what’s happened during the past week since we already know some users jumped ship.





Digital Diary: Facebook Poke and the Tedium of Success Theater

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There’s a big problem in social media right now.
Poke, a Facebook app, lets people send messages that self-destruct after a few seconds. Poke, a Facebook app, lets people send messages that self-destruct after a few seconds.
It’s boring.
A crucial and indispensable source of news and information, absolutely. But more often than not, it’s also tedious and predictable.
Digital Diary
One woman’s look at technology and life.
Don’t get me wrong: My use of Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook has never been greater. But I’m growing tired of seeing everyone’s perfectly framed, glittering nightscapes of the Manhattan skyline, their impeccably prepared meals, those beautifully blurred views of the world from an airplane window seat. I’m getting tired of carefully crafting and sharing them myself.
As these mediums have matured and more of our friends, colleagues, former flings, in-laws and friends have migrated to them, our use of them has changed. We’ve become better at choreographing ourselves and showing our best sides to the screen, capturing the most flattering angle of our faces, our homes, our evenings out, our loved ones and our trips.
It’s success theater, and we’ve mastered it. We’ve gotten better at it because it matters more. You never know who is looking or how it might affect your relationships and career down the road, and as a result, we have become more cautious about the version of ourselves that we present to each other and the world. Even Twitter, a service steeped in real-time and right-nowness, has added filters to its photo uploads, letting its users add a washed-out effect to their posts. It makes me miss the raw and unfiltered glimpses those services used to provide of the lives of my friends and the people I follow.
But the ubiquity of success theater is why I’ve become so fascinated with Snapchat and, more recently, Facebook Poke, services that let you send photos, messages and videos with a built-in shelf life, that self-destruct after a time interval that you choose. The beauty of these applications, perhaps their main redemptive quality, is that you can only send photos, messages and videos that you have created within the application. You cannot access your phone’s photo library for a more attractive self-portrait or an exotic locale to mask that you’re really sitting on the couch on Friday night in pajamas, wearing a face mask.
These applications are the opposite of groomed; they practically require imperfection, a sloppiness and a grittiness that conveys a sense of realness, something I’ve been craving in my communication. They transform the screen of your phone into a window into the life of your friend, wherever they are at that exact moment.
All of this is not to say that Snapchat or Facebook Poke have any permanent home in our daily routines. The applications, in their current iterations, have yet to gain significant traction in any of my social circles. Part of the fun is the novelty, as with any new service. And both have specific uses that are not as mainstream as services like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or even Tumblr. After all, it’s much harder to find your comfort level within them. It’s startling, at first, to see the poorly lit, grainy pictures of your friends’ unfiltered faces, to adjust to the intimacy of realizing that the video of your friend that just landed in your in-box is meant for your eyes only, and that you are expected to send something of equal or greater intimacy in return. It is also possible that over time, Snapchat, VidBurn and Facebook Poke will become warped by their own versions of success theater, or lose steam if they gain seedier reputations.
But they capture a behavior my closest friends and I had already begun to adopt: The practice of showing each other where we are at any given moment in time, either through a short video or photo of our workstations, our faces as we lie half-asleep in bed on rainy Sunday afternoons, a look into our lives that is reserved for only those closest to each other. It is an acknowledgement that the version of ourselves we share through other social media is not the truest one, and has not been for a long time.
This is a variation of the same impulse that made Chatroulette a viral hit, and something that Apple has tried to capture with FaceTime, Google with its Hangouts, even Color’s ill-fated last and final iteration. It’s enough to make me think that the real real-time social Web is coming, in one form or another.
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    Facebook Poke app can’t beat Snapchat, but questions raised about security

    Both apps allow users to take photos or videos that self-destruct between one and ten seconds after they're sent to friends. Critics say the sexting apps aren't so secure, though, and several reports detail how to cheat the systems and save a message.





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 A demonstration of Facebook's Poke - a self-destructing image app which was released to compete with the more successful Snapchat app.

    iosvlog.com via YouTube

    Poke (l.) and Snapchat (r.) apps let friends share photos that will delete after a few seconds.

    Facebook’s latest app, Poke, can’t compete with rival Snapchat, despite proof the messages taken with both apps aren’t so self-destructing after all.
    Snapchat’s allure is the ability to send photos and videos that exist just a few seconds before they supposedly vanish from the recipient’s phone — making the app popular among sexting teens who don’t want to leave behind any evidence of their X-rated pics.
    SNAPCHAT ENCOURAGES SEXTING AMONG TEENS
    ONE IN FIVE TEENS SEXTING PHOTOS
    Snapchat is the fourth most popular app on the iTunes charts.
    Smartphone users haven’t been so keen on Poke, Facebook’s recent attempt to match the popular app.
    Introduced two weeks ago, it’s yet to break into iTunes top 100.
    The apps are similar. Both allow users to take photos or videos that disappear between one and ten seconds after they’re sent to friends.
    If a recipient tries to take a screengrab of the secret message, both apps shoot an alert to the sender.
    Once the self-selected time runs out, the photo or video is gone from both phones — unless the sender chose to save it before sending.
    But recent reports highlight how users can out-smart the apps.
    By plugging their phone into a computer and using a file manager program like iFunBox, anyone can search for a file they were sent and save it before it’s even opened.
    Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel told Buzzfeed that “there will always be a way to reverse engineer technology products,” but says the company is working on a way to fix the glitch.
    Facebook encouraged Poke users to be aware of what they’re sending through the app, as “there are still ways that people can potentially save them.”
    rmurray@nydailynews.com
     http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50208495#50208495
    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/facebook-poke-app-beat-snapchat-article-1.1231380#ixzz2GppJegGr  

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