FB to whet News Feed based on feedback
FACEBOOK has announced to incorporate more feedback into its News Feed ranking and starting this spring, the social network is expanding its work to use direct feedback from people who use its platform to understand the content people find most valuable.
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San Francisco: FACEBOOK has announced to incorporate more feedback into its News Feed ranking and starting this spring, the social network is expanding its work to use direct feedback from people who use its platform to understand the content people find most valuable.
Facebook said it will continue to incorporate this feedback into its News Feed ranking process.
"Over the next few months, we'll test new ways to get more specific feedback from people about the posts they're seeing, and we'll use that feedback to make News Feed better," said Aastha Gupta, Product Management Director. People have told Facebook they want to see more inspiring and uplifting content in News Feed because it motivates them and can be useful to them outside of Facebook.
"We're running a series of global tests that will survey people to understand which posts they find inspirational. We'll incorporate their responses as a signal in News Feed ranking, with the goal of showing people more inspirational posts closer to the top of their News Feed," Gupta said in a statement on Thursday.
Facebook said that it will ask people whether they want to see more or fewer posts about a certain topic.
Based on their collective feedback, it will aim to show people more content about the topics they're more interested in, and show them fewer posts about topics they don't want to see.
