News Feed Change: Posts From Facebook Friends Trump Page Posts

Posts from friends will carry even more weight than posts from pages in the latest update to Facebook’s News Feed algorithm, and stories about friends liking or commenting on posts will be de-emphasized.

NewsFeedFBAssets650Posts from friends will carry even more weight than posts from pages in the latest update to Facebook’s News Feed algorithm, and stories about friends liking or commenting on posts will be de-emphasized.

Product manager Max Eulenstein and user-experience researcher Lauren Scissors detailed three changes to the social network’s News Feed algorithm in a Newsroom post, stressing that the moves were made in response to feedback from users.

The three changes to the News Feed algorithm, as explained by Eulenstein and Scissors, are:

We get a lot of feedback from people and recently started asking people to rate their personal News Feeds to tell us how we can improve.

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