Facebook wants to free your News Feed from spam
PC World - The network is again tweaking its News Feed algorithm to show more of the stuff you want to see.
View ArticleFacebook wants to clean up spam in your News Feed
Engadget - "1 like = $1." "1 like = 1 Respect." "If you don't share this, you're literally the devil." We'll bet you've seen the above way too often on Facebook. Thankfully, the social network's now...
View ArticleYour Facebook News Feed Is About To Get A Lot Less Annoying
Huffington Post - Your News Feed is getting a major overhaul, according to a post on the Facebook Newsroom blog Thursday. The company announced several improvements to "reduce stories that people...
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
Computerworld - Posts on Facebook that repeatedly urge users to like, share or comment on them are being targeted in a new effort to reduce News Feed spam, Facebook said.
View ArticleFacebook looks to cut the spam from your news feed
TechRadar - Facebook is on the hunt for spam and has introduced three measures to combat the irrelevant content that clogs many users' news feeds. The first targets what Facebook calls "like-baiting,"...
View ArticleFacebook squashes marketers' 'like'-bait in News Feed update
CNET - Say goodbye to spammy stories in your News Feed -- or at least the social network's definition of spammy stories. Marketers may beg to differ.
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
PC World - Changes to the site's filtering algorithm will de-emphasize posts that repeatedly ask for 'likes'(techhive.com)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
View ArticleFacebook is getting more aggressive with hiding News Feed spam
Digital Trends - Attempting to squash Facebook's problem of user-generated spam, the social network has rolled out new guidelines that will tweak the News Feed algorithm in order to feature more high...
View ArticleFacebook's cleaning up your News Feed a little, ripping out Like-baiting...
Gizmodo - Facebook's cleaning up your News Feed a little, ripping out Like-baiting posts, repeated content, and spammy links.Read more...
View Article10 Things In Tech You Need To Know This Morning (MSFT, GOOG, FB, AMZN)
Business Insider - Good morning! Happy Friday! Only two more days left in the work week. Here's the news you need: Amazon acquired digital Comic book company ComiXology. ComicXology is sort of like a...
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
InfoWorld - Posts on Facebook that repeatedly urge users to like, share or comment on them are being targeted in a new effort to reduce News Feed spam, Facebook said Thursday. Many of those posts are...
View ArticleRapid Reaction: Businesses unfriend Facebook
TechHive - Puzzled by Facebook's news feed algorithm some businesses are dropping their presence on the social network in frustration. Zach Miners of IDG News Service breaks it down.
View ArticleFacebook: Begging for Likes Is a No-No Now
TIME - The social network is rolling out new policies to help cut down on spam showing up in the News Feed, including one that lessens the visibility of posts by Pages that ask for Likes and Shares,...
View ArticleFacebook cleaning up spam in News Feed
KING NBC Seattle - Facebook is performing its version of spring cleaning.
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Kill Your News Feed's Spam
Fast Company - Heads up, digital marketers.Today Facebook pulled back the curtains a bit, allowing outsiders a glimpse into some of the changes it has made to its News Feed algorithm. The move, which...
View ArticleNow That Facebook Is Making Right-Rail Ads A Lot More Compelling, FBX Is...
Business Insider - Facebook just announced that it's desktop right-rail ads will soon be relevant once again. The social network is going to make the ads much bigger, but it will also surface fewer of...
View ArticleFacebook's latest government report reveals which countries censor its News Feed
The Verge - Facebook today released its second global government transparency report, covering the period between July and December of last year. Apart from the regular numbers pertaining to government...
View ArticleFacebook cracks down on âlink-baitingâ
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Facebookâs latest tweak to its ever-evolving news feed: a purge of âlink bait.â Link bait, the Menlo Park social networking giant says, includes content that...
View ArticleFacebook Promises Less Junk in Your News Feed
NBC News - In todayâs world, âgoing viralâ is actually a good thing, and it usually involves people sharing stuff on Facebook.
View ArticleStudy: Facebook Continues to Make People Sad
New York Magazine - Recent studies in the field of Facebook science have revealed that the site diminishes our quality of life. Constantly staring at the lives of others via news feed, in fact, has...
View ArticleFacebook to make the News Feed less 'spammy,' punish pages that ask for 'Likes'
United Press International - Ananth BaligaMENLO PARK, Calif., April 11 (UPI) -- Facebook will target Pages that coerce users for Shares or Likes, which users have complained are 'spammy' posts they...
View ArticleFacebook squashes marketers' "like"-bait in News Feed update
CBS News - Say goodbye to spammy stories in your News Feed -- or at least the social network's definition of spammy stories
View ArticleStop Treating Introversion Like a Trend
Mashable - I am guilty of blogging away my anger and tears after struggling to connect with other people. I prefer staying at home or going to a quiet coffee shop over attending a loud party or...
View ArticleFacebook making changes to news feeds
WWMT CBS Grand Rapids - (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Facebook is making some big changes to make your news feed less annoying.The company announced on its blog last week that there will be several improvements to...
View Article'Silencer' Google Chrome Extension Prevents 'Spoilers, People and Hashtags'...
Breitbart - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 15 (UPI) -- If youâve been avoiding the Internet so you wonât find out what happened on Game of Thrones on Sunday, thereâs no longer a reason to fear...
View ArticleFacebook's News Feed: What Changed and Why
Mashable - As Winston Churchill once said, âto improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." It's a maxim Facebook seems to have adopted wholeheartedly when it comes to the News Feed Posts...
View ArticleFacebook slips; ITG data points to subdued Q1 numbers
Seeking Alpha - ITG Research's checks suggest Facebook's (FB -1%) ad prices (on a cost per click basis) fell Q/Q in seasonally soft Q1, and that its revenue will be in-line or below consensus.OTR...
View ArticleFrontback, the perfect selfie-taking app, arrives on Android
The Verge - By Adrianne Jeffries and Ellis Hamburger Nine months after its well-received release on iPhone, Frontback has arrived on Android. The selfie app captures two shots: one of the subject,...
View ArticleFacebook's friend problem
The Verge - When I arrived at the University of Michigan in fall 2007, everybody said "Facebook me." In the following days, even a passing meeting guaranteed that a friend request would pop up the next...
View ArticleYour Facebook Friends Really Do Care What You Think! (We Think.)
Mashable - Your friends actually do care what you think â or at least Facebook assumes they do You may have noticed a relatively new feature on Facebook lately that allows users to ask friends for...
View ArticleFacebook Launches 'Nearby Friends' Location Feature for Meet-Ups IRL
Mashable - Facebook has always encouraged you to share with your friends â your favorite movies, pictures, and life updates. Now Facebook wants you sharing your location, too. The social network on...
View ArticleNew Facebook for iPhone Lets You Reply to Comments on Pages
Mashable - Facebook has rolled out version 9.0 of its iPhone app, adding the ability to reply to comments on stories on certain Pages For this to work, the Page in question must have this feature...
View ArticleFacebook's Paper app is looking less and less like Facebook
The Verge - With Paper, Facebook set out to prove that it could "think small," rebuilding itself from the ground up for mobile devices. This meant removing lots of clutter, and in some cases, leaving...
View ArticleFacebook Adds Features to Paper, Says Slow Growth Is No Concern
Mashable - Facebook Paper, the standalone news reader app the company launched in January, released its first significant app update Friday â adding a couple new features to the News Feed section of...
View ArticleReport: Facebook mobile ad network launching at month's end
Seeking Alpha - Facebook's (FB +1.8%) anticipated mobile ad network will be launched at its April 30 f8 developer's conference, re/code reports. As expected, the network will leverage Facebook's...
View ArticleUsers Actually Seem To Like Facebook's Auto-Play Videos
Fast Company - The volume of videos played on Facebook increased 134% in the first quarter, and engagement on videos is up 58%.Have people been annoyed with videos that automatically play on Facebook's...
View ArticleHere's Why Your Old High School Friends Are Unfriending You On Facebook
Huffington Post - If you're on Facebook, you probably have at least one former high school classmate who seems to never stop overloading your News Feed with crazy political rants or unnecessarily...
View ArticleFacebook: Auto-Play Video Ads Will Remain Small Scale This Year
Mashable - Facebook doesn't expect its video auto-play News Feed ads to make a "material contribution" to ad revenues this year, COO Sheryl Sandberg said on Wednesday. In a call with analysts following...
View ArticleFacebook to cover your news feed with even more auto-play video ads
TechRadar - Facebook is plummeting further and further down the ad-driven rabbit hole, and in its most recent earnings call the social network said it wants auto-play video ads to be a common sight in...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Immortalized by Madam Tussauds
Mashable - Starting in June, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will spend his days at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco taking pictures with visiting tourists At least, that's what the wax version of...
View ArticleFacebook Launches a Newswire to Surface More Breaking News
Mashable - Facebook wants to be your digital newspaper, and it's not beating around the bush to make that happen The social network added FB Newswire on Thursday, a Facebook Page full of hand-selected...
View ArticleFacebook plans to step up News Feed video advertisements
Digital Spy - Social network says it wants auto-play videos to become a common sight in feeds.
View ArticleWeek in Tech: Week in Tech: Apple TV grows, iPad slows, and Facebook explodes...
TechRadar - This week's been all about the numbers: Apple's sales figures, Facebook's user numbers and Lytro's new camera which delivers 1080 x 1080 pixels of light ray goodness. That's not all: Sony's...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Monitors What You Read In The News (FB)
Business Insider - Most people are dimly aware that Facebook has a way of tracking what you read in the news. If you "like" a story in The New York Times or on Fox News, then Facebook records that like...
View ArticleFacebookâs Mobile Ad Network Is Called âFacebook Audience Networkâ And...
TechCrunch - Â Next week at f8, Facebook will unveil Facebook Audience Network, its mobile ad network that will let developers target both standard banners and custom ad units with Facebook's vast...
View ArticleWatch Out Twitter And Google+, Facebook's News Feed Is Getting Smarter And...
Forbes - Facebook has a difficult problem but all of the financial and technological resources to solve it. The same cannot be said for its competitors Twitter and Google+.
View ArticleHere's The Magic Word That Can Boost Your Post In Facebook's News Feed (FB)
Business Insider - Facebook's News Feed has always been something of a mystery. Some posts show up in the feed, some don't. The feed has become over run with all sorts of content and Facebook uses an...
View ArticleHere's Everything Facebook Just Announced At Its Big Developer Conference (FB)
Business Insider - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just delivered what amounts to a massive cultural change for the social network. Soon, users will be able to utilize an anonymous login function. It will...
View ArticleSnapchat Updated with Text Messaging and Live Video Calls [iOS Blog]
Mac Rumors - Ephemeral photo sharing service Snapchat has released a significant update to its iOS app today, which brings integration of a new "Chat" text messaging feature and "Here" live video chat...
View ArticleA Simple, Nifty Trick For Cleaning Up Your Facebook News Feed
Fast Company - Is your Facebook friends list bloated to near unusable levels? Perhaps try this simple strategy.This week, in an enormous feat of determination, New York's Kevin Roose nuked his Facebook...
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