Facebook is rolling out changes to its News Feed designed to show you older stories you haven't read yet, as long as the company's algorithms believe those stories will be interesting to you, the company said today. At an event at the company's Menlo Park campus, executives unveiled "story bumping." The feature shows off older stories that you never got to but have high engagement, whether that be shares, likes, comments, or clicks.
It's designed to solve a problem often experienced by the 700 million-plus daily visitors to the News Feed: missing stories that are important to them, whether that be a photo of a beloved nephew or an updated relationship status on a person they care about. A large part of the problem is volume: the average...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594516/facebook-tweaks-news-feed-to-surface-stories-you-might-have-missed
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