General Mackevili wrote:

kiwiincambodia wrote:I actually like the change.

They should just give us a CHOICE...

You see how much CEO uses them to dig up info about suspects/criminals, so you can only imagine how much the governments use them for that and much more.

I don’t see how that would change anything.

I believe if you are using the search function, as CEO or a government would do, everything would come up in the search.

This IMHO is about functionality, you have one feed for actual people and friends (with minimal ads that do get through) and another feed for businesses, events, meme sites etc.... to me this allows for a better experience. If I want to go to Facebook to catch up with friends i can do so without having to go through all the other news and content.

As I said on twitter, everyone uses social media differently and will be effected by this change differently, but to me I find the change nice and have actually started using Facebook more since the change.

I'm not liking my loss of news feed. News websites getting more hits from me and fb gets less time.

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But you haven’t lost them they are just in a consolidated feed with all the other news feeds you follow. I would think if you want to get News this is easier than before when you had to separate all your friends personal posts from In between the news posts.

But if I go to explore I get memes from "Americas greatest truckers " or some such , which I NEVER liked or followed and I'm lucky to see a post from e.g. the Phnom Penh post.
I dislike it more and more.

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..... I liked the pages I "liked", that was why I "liked them......

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Facebook's Explore Feed Experiment Is Already Crushing Cambodia's Businesses
2 Nov 2017
If entrepreneur In Vichet had launched his online shopping outlet "Little Fashion" this year, Facebook’s latest experiment--pushing content from companies and organizations into a separate Explore feed--would have killed his site. Since it opened in 2010, Little Fashion has built a large local clientele and become one of the more successful forays into ecommerce in Cambodia, but in its early years, Little Fashion relied on Facebook posts that reached users’ main feeds.

Maya Gilliss-Chapman, California-based founder of the Cambodians in Tech network, said she has been monitoring the impact of this change on Cambodian businesses and organizations. She has already seen an average 60% drop in organizations’ reach.
“Facebook has always been moving towards a pay-to-play model,” she said. “The Explore Feed experiment is just their latest effort to squeeze more ad dollars out of businesses. The Explore Feed experiment will be a challenge for some businesses and the end for others.”

Galeno Chua, CEO of Phnom Penh-based digital marketing firm The Idea, said most of his clients still did not know they were losing their previous social media reach.

Business education and knowledge is not at the same level in Cambodia as it is in developed countries, he said. While Chua’s media clients in Cambodia are aware and concerned about the change, those without strong marketing sensibilities or even knowledge of English might be doomed before they can prepare. Facebook is a marketing platform they know how to use and their potential clients already gravitate toward, he explained....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielleke ... 5c7934752d

Facebook’s dangerous experiment in Cambodia

Facebook’s latest experiment is playing a dangerous game with free expression in Cambodia...

I implore Facebook and its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, to consider the damaging impact of Explore Feed on the people in the experiment countries. Freedom of speech in Southeast Asia is under pressure. Changes in technology can be good, but Facebook’s leaders need to consider the fact that their choices could bring unfavorable consequences to those affected and could deeply harm our democracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/glo ... -cambodia/

Explore is going global, but will be less "extreme" than the experiment conducted in Cambodia and five other countries.

Facebook overhauls News Feed in favor of 'meaningful social interactions'
12 January 2018
Refresh of the New Feed algorithm will de-prioritize content shared by media and businesses in favor of that produced by friends and family, Zuckerberg says.

Facebook sparked outcry from publishers in six countries in October when it removed all public content from the News Feed to a separate “Explore Tab”. In a blog post accompanying Zuckerberg’s announcement, Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s head of News Feed, said that the current changes would not be as extreme as those “tests”, and some public content will still appear in users’ feeds.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... zuckerberg

Facebook Only Cares About Facebook
Whatever Mark Zuckerberg says about human community or his legacy, his company is acting in its own interests—and against the public good.

Ethan Zuckerman, Jan 27, 2018
- Facebook’s crushing blow to independent media arrived last fall in Slovakia, Cambodia, Guatemala, and three other nations.

The social giant removed stories by these publishers from users’ News Feeds, hiding them in a new, hard-to-find stream. These independent publishers reported that they lost as much as 80 percent of their audience during this experiment.

Facebook doesn’t care. At least, it usually seems that way.

Despite angry pushback in the six countries affected by Facebook’s algorithmic tinkering, the company is now going ahead with similar changes to its News Feed globally. These changes will likely de-prioritize stories from professional publishers, and instead favor dispatches published by a user’s friends and family. Many American news organizations will see the sharp traffic declines their brethren in other nations experienced last year—unless they pay Facebook to include their stories in readers’ feeds.

At the heart of this change is Facebook’s attempt to be seen not as a news publisher, but as a neutral platform for interactions between friends. Facing sharp criticism for its role in spreading misinformation, and possibly in tipping elections in the United States and in the United Kingdom, Facebook is anxious to limit its exposure by limiting its role. It has long been this way.

This rebalancing means different things for the company’s many stakeholders—for publishers, it means they’re almost certainly going to be punished for their reliance on a platform that’s never been a wholly reliable partner. Facebook didn’t talk to publishers in Slovakia because publishers are less important than other stakeholders in this next incarnation of Facebook. But more broadly, Facebook doesn’t talk to you because Facebook already knows what you want...
Full article: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551684/

People surely realise that Facebook is just an advertising and data mining platform, don't they? There's a reason Zuckerberg wants to know where you live, who you work for, what you look like and what you are interested in. It's not to do with altruism, nor anything other than his own fat wallet. His crocodile tears only appear when people bitch enough that his change jar might be a little short this month. The guy stole the idea from two other dudes solely to harass his ex-girlfriend.