Facebook gives users new way to see all their friends’ posts

The brand new characteristic is the corporate’s newest try to maintain individuals coming again to its social community amid intensifying competitors with its trendier rival TikTok.

The modifications introduced Thursday will supply up two totally different views. When Fb customers open the app, they’ll initially see the same old information feed that includes posts chosen by an algorithm that the corporate says is designed to spotlight subjects and pals almost certainly to enchantment to every particular person’s tastes and pursuits. The principle feed on the newly dubbed “Dwelling” part can even embrace an possibility to take a look at brief movies referred to as Reels — Fb’s clone of TikTok.

However many customers have expressed frustration with the feeds pressured upon them by Fb, whereas critics of the Menlo Park, California, firm have blasted the algorithm for spreading misinformation and creating polarizing echo chambers.

Fb, owned by Meta Platforms, is making an attempt to deal with these considerations with a brand new Feed tab positioned to the left of the notifications tab on the shortcut bar in each the iPhone and Android variations of its cell app.

After clicking on the Feed tab, customers will be capable to toggle over to a chronological presentation of their Fb favorites, Fb teams they’ve joined or feeds consisting completely of posts from all their Fb pals within the order they had been shared.

The brand new possibility is designed to deal with complaints from customers who consider they’ve been lacking attention-grabbing posts as a result of Fb’s algorithm omitted them from their feeds.

“One of the crucial requested options for Fb is to ensure individuals don’t miss pals’ posts,” Fb founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned within the announcement.

Fb is giving customers extra management at a time when it has been struggling to develop, partly as a result of different social media comparable to TikTok have turn out to be extra widespread, significantly amongst younger generations. That stagnation, in flip, is making it harder for company father or mother Meta to spice up its income from the digital adverts that seem in customers’ feeds. (AP)

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