Facebook Wants to Know If You Really Want to See That Viral Post in News Feed

Facebook has been conducting user surveys to fine-tune News Feed for quite some time, and the social network provided more details on those efforts in a Newsroom post.

Facebook has been conducting user surveys to fine-tune News Feed for quite some time, and the social network provided more details on those efforts in a Newsroom post.

Software engineer Sami Tas and data scientist Ta Virot Chiraphadhanakul wrote about the surveys:

As part of our ongoing effort to improve News Feed, we ask thousands of people every day to rate their experience and tell us how we can improve what they see when they check Facebook. People also take story surveys where they see two stories that could be in their News Feed and answer which they’d most want to see.

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