Facebook's algorithm change is so noticeable that I'm now hearing from many non-technical, frustrated people who know I study this stuff and asking me how to break out of it. They don't have the terminology for it, but people are effectively asking me how to game the algorithm.
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It's all so complex that I don't know what it will all mean, but the key point is that this is all greatly consequential, and unilaterally imposed. No simple way to muck around with social and informational interaction structures of two billion people. The crisis is structural.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Brian Hylton
This is not a sustainable answer. Facebook is the only way for a large number of essential connections for a large number of people--functions ranging from family, work to political participation.https://twitter.com/_bhylton/status/961947700852940801 …
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That is BS... world worked fine without facebook; linked in handles professional connections, instagram pinterest twitter reddit etc plenty for personql
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