Thread: I am Cellar
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Old 01-27-2015, 03:51 PM   #11
Undertoad
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if you took all the posts on the Cellar and just printed them on the screen in chronological posting order.
That would be okay! But what FB does is to take all the posts, decide which ones are becoming important, decide which people you're closest to, and show *some* of them to you, on a basis and in an order they decide you will like.

Of course everybody doesn't want to see everything everybody posts, right? You said you were friends but most of your friends aren't friends... FB knows that...

So! Didn't see that important post from your friend? They may not have LIKEd YOUR posts enough, or their friends may not have LIKEd that post very much. Seeing every single crappy post from that one friend? Aw, FB has decided, through its own special secret sauce, that you're actually close and want to see each others' shit! Did your friend announce that thing that was important to you? Well too bad they did it at 1am and it got buried!
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