Facebook trials additional newsfeed similar to Snapchat Discover
Facebook is trialling a second newsfeed featuring recommended videos and stories based on what a consumer watches in their current News Feed.
For those part of the trial, the newsfeed can be found under a rocket icon in the Facebook application for both iOS and Android platforms, and does not contain any posts from Facebook friends.
Each piece of content is based on personal preferences including pages or post previously liked in the regular newsfeed.
Ah FFS. Listen to your users. They want greater control over what they see in their feeds, not having this predetermined for them based on algorithms and a bunch of unsubstantiated assumptions or what the “other” platforms are doing. A setting to permanently display Most recent rather than “News feed” as a default wouldn’t go astray eh?
Nice.
Here’s a headline, “Facebook users shocked by new aggregated content under rocket button. What they do next will haunt you!”
Eat my shorts Facebook!