Facebook's Paper app is looking less and less like Facebook
The Verge - With Paper, Facebook set out to prove that it could "think small," rebuilding itself from the ground up for mobile devices. This meant removing lots of clutter, and in some cases, leaving...
View ArticleHere's Why Your Old High School Friends Are Unfriending You On Facebook
Huffington Post - If you're on Facebook, you probably have at least one former high school classmate who seems to never stop overloading your News Feed with crazy political rants or unnecessarily...
View ArticleFacebook to cover your news feed with even more auto-play video ads
TechRadar - Facebook is plummeting further and further down the ad-driven rabbit hole, and in its most recent earnings call the social network said it wants auto-play video ads to be a common sight in...
View ArticleWeek in Tech: Week in Tech: Apple TV grows, iPad slows, and Facebook explodes...
TechRadar - This week's been all about the numbers: Apple's sales figures, Facebook's user numbers and Lytro's new camera which delivers 1080 x 1080 pixels of light ray goodness. That's not all: Sony's...
View ArticleHere's Everything Facebook Just Announced At Its Big Developer Conference (FB)
Business Insider - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just delivered what amounts to a massive cultural change for the social network. Soon, users will be able to utilize an anonymous login function. It will...
View ArticleQuantcast CEO Claims Adtech's Hot New $5 Billion Trend Is Ripping Off Clients
Business Insider - The hottest new trend in adtech is "RTB," or real-time bidding. And it's often a way to rip off advertisers, according to Konrad Feldman, CEO of Quantcast, one of the larger players...
View ArticleFacebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag...
TechCrunch - Â Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer can...
View ArticleHow to sort your Facebook feed by time on mobile
Computerworld - Weddings. Job promotions. News articles. Facebook thinks it knows what the best stories are to drop in your news feed. But some users might want to see things their own way.
View ArticleHow to sort your Facebook feed by time on mobile
PC World - Weddings. Job promotions. News articles. Facebook thinks it knows what the best stories are to drop in your news feed. But some users might want to see things their own way. As an...
View ArticleWe Got A Look Inside The 45-Day Planning Process That Goes Into Creating A...
Business Insider - Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have become increasingly crowded with branded accounts seeking their attention. Every few seconds, your favorite brands are tweeting at you. But what...
View ArticleFacebook cutting back on spammy auto-posts
KSPR ABC Springfield - For the second time in just over a week, Facebook has done an about-face on a feature that has bothered some users for a while. Fewer automatic posts will be showing up in your...
View ArticleWhatsApp Provides A Huge Chunk Of USA Today's Traffic (FB)
Business Insider - More evidence has emerged that Facebook's decision to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp â the mobile messaging app that has almost no data on its users and, aside from a 99 cent annual...
View ArticleWhat Kind of Privacy Pipe Is Facebook Smoking? Consumers Don't Want Targeted Ads
Huffington Post - There you go again, Facebook. Adding to its long history of whittling away its users' privacy, the social network had said it will soon adopt the practice that many web sites already...
View ArticleFacebook Experimented on Random Users to Study Newsfeed Emotions
Gizmodo - Spend time with a Debbie Downer, and you'll likely end up feeling blue. Turns out, the same is true digitally: Facebook's new study says this "emotional contagion" works just as strongly...
View ArticleFacebook Manipulated User News Feeds To Create Emotional Responses
Forbes - Facebook conducted a massive psychological experiment on 689,003 users, manipulating their news feeds to assess the effects on their emotions. Â Â The details of the experiment were published...
View ArticleWhy Facebook was messing with your news feed
WUSA CBS Washington DC - Facebook has generated anger among members of its social network after a study surfaced tied to its users' news feeds. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
View ArticleFacebook's Emotion Manipulation Reminds Me Of That Clash Song
Forbes - This weekend the discussion turned toward something you probably knew: Facebook can seriously mess with your News Feed and will even do it for science now and then. If you have followed my...
View ArticleFacebook treats you like a lab rat
KSPR ABC Springfield - You can be angry and upset with Facebook after it manipulated its users' emotions as part of a study. But you shouldn't be surprised. After all, experiments on users are...
View ArticleFacebook's emotional experiment not worth the outrage
San Francisco Chronicle - Somewhere in Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, a team of eggheads secretly plotted to make you happy or sad by posting uplifting or depressing content on your news feed. In...
View ArticleFacebook 101: How to Understand and Tweak Your News Feed
Wall Street Journal - From nearly the beginning, Facebook has had to clear up confusion about how the news feed works. Here is an introductory guide â a News Feed 101 â to what powers the social...
View ArticleFacebook Now Lets You Buy Things Straight From Your News Feed
Gizmodo - Facebook is just full of surprises today. After releasing its new Moments app earlier, the company has just announced the latest in its long history of experiments: Giving you the ability to...
View ArticleFacebook Adds a Save Button Since There's Too Much Crap on Your News Feed
Gizmodo - Over the years, Facebook has slowly morphed from a voyeur's wet dream into what is now essentially a popularity-based RSS feed. And since there's only so many listicles one can read in a day,...
View ArticleFacebook Introduces Save, Bookmarks Interesting Articles to Read Later
Lifehacker - Not everyone needs an amazing bookmarking service they can use like a pro . For the casual reader, Facebook just introduced a feature called "Save." Now, if you see an article in your News...
View ArticleGet started with Facebook Save
CNET - Save is dedicated to storing your favorite links found in your News Feed.
View ArticleYou May Want To Delete Facebook After Watching This Video
Huffington Post - You've heard of alcohol addiction, gambling addiction and sex addiction. But what about Facebook addiction? It's real. And according to University of Chicago research, the site can...
View ArticleFacebook gives up on Gifts, again
PC World - Facebook is still trying to figure out how to get you to buy stuff from your News Feed, but one experiment that didnât quite pan out was Facebook Gifts. The social network is shutting down...
View ArticleFacebook's Sneaky Viral Video Spam Problem
Mashable - Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife â viral videos are climbing into your News Feed, snatching up your content. It's not in your headFacebook is delivering more videos. A Facebook spokesperson...
View ArticleWorking 4 you: Is your news feed biased?
KXLY ABC Spokane - As the crisis in Gaza and Israel plays out, the world is paying attention online. That's where most of us get our information, and it could be influencing how we view the conflict.
View ArticleThis Is What Happens When You Like Everything on Facebook
Mother Jones - Fun fact about Facebook that people like me who study it a lot can tell you: You should be discerning with the Like button because the News Feed algorithm is pretty sensitive. This can...
View ArticleStriking Out ALS: Ice Bucket Challenge Brings Flood of Donations
NBC News - Here's why everyone in your news feed is dumping ice water on themselves.
View ArticleDid George W. Bush kind of cheat at the ice bucket challenge?
The Week - Former President George W. Bush took the Ice Bucket Challenge â sort of.Post by George W. Bush.Yes, Bush got a bucket of water dumped on his head. But where was the titular ice?To be fair,...
View ArticleHow to Help the Mises Institute on Facebook
Mises.org - As you probably know, Facebook is constantly changing its methods of deciding which posts you see and which you donât see. Privacy settings change constantly as do settings for your news...
View ArticleFacebook Is Finally Cracking Down on Upworthy-Style Clickbait
Gizmodo - After months of seeing your News Feed littered with headlines promising that you won't believe what happens next, Facebook is finally taking steps to cut down on spammy, obnoxious clickbait....
View ArticleYou Might Actually Like Facebook?s New Changes
TIME - Facebook is making changes to your News Feed to make it less annoying
View ArticleHere?s how Facebook?s new click-bait strategy could affect your News Feed
WPIX CW New York City - NEW YORK (PIX11) - Facebook will be making two major changes to the News Feed in an effort to cut down on spammy, âclick baitâ stories and bring users the breaking news...
View ArticleWhat Facebook is about to do to your News Feed will SHOCK you!
Windows Central - Facebook, in a decision that could change the course of humanity as we know it, today announced that it's going to "reduce click-baiting headlines." That is, it's going to give less...
View ArticleWhat Facebook is about to do to your News Feed will SHOCK you!
Android Central - Facebook, in a decision that could change the course of humanity as we know it, today announced that it's going to "reduce click-baiting headlines." That is, it's going to give less...
View ArticleFacebook Cleanser Quickly Unsubscribes You from Pages You Liked
Lifehacker - Web: Over the years, you have probably clicked the Like button on several Facebook pages in which you are no longer interested. Facebook Cleanser performs a quick sweep to clean up your...
View ArticleFacebook cracks down on "click-baiting"
CBS News - What Facebook is doing to keep spammy stories out of your News Feed
View ArticleFacebook Is Paying Attention To The Ads You Hide
Fast Company - Ads marked as offensive or inappropriate will no longer be shown to the greater Facebook community.When you hide an ad on Facebook, the social network takes note, studying the intent to...
View ArticleFacebook Is Trying To Figure Out Why You Don?t Want Certain Ads In Your News...
Business Insider - Facebook has more than 1.5 billion active advertisers. So it?s important for Facebook to know what type of ads its users like seeing on their News Feeds. On Thursday, Facebook made...
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Know Why You Hate Its Ads
Business Insider - Facebook is taking steps towards making your interaction with in-feed advertising a little bit better by asking you why you don't want to see a particular ad on your News Feed. Â...
View ArticleFacebook Wants Your News Feed to Reflect What?s Happening Right Now
TIME - In a move into Twitter's turf
View ArticleFacebook Finally Tweaks News Feed To Show Stuff You Actually Want To Read
Huffington Post - Your Facebook News Feed has been filled with old irrelevant posts instead of new ones. You complained. Facebook listened. Facebook is going to try harder to show you what you want to...
View ArticleFacebook to push real-time stories to the top of News Feed
PC World - While Twitter users are wringing their hands over the possibility of an algorithmic timeline, Facebook is doing a 180 and adding more real-time stories to your News Feed. Is anyone else...
View ArticleFB News: How Facebook Will Change Your News Feed (Again)
Investor Place - Facebook is planning to make yet another change to the way users' News Feeds display posts with high amounts of interaction. The post FB News: How Facebook Will Change Your News Feed...
View ArticleFacebook news feed changes
WALA FOX Mobile - You know how Facebook tends to show you lots of old stuff in your news feed you haven't cared about in a couple of days. Well, that's about â¦
View ArticleFacebook Relaunches Atlas For Marketers To Serve Targeted Ads Across Multiple...
Forbes - Facebook already uses your personal information to show you contextual ads on your News Feed, but now they are able to utilize the same data on behalf of third-party apps and websites. When...
View ArticleFacebook still plans to study you, but promises to ?learn and improve?
PC World - Remember when Facebook played with your emotions and made you mad? OK, that?s every day. But back in July, the social network revealed that it had experimented with your News Feed by showing...
View ArticleWayne Coyne Weighs In On Flaming Lips? Sgt. Pepper?s Covers Album
American Songwriter - Wayne Coyne is more relevant now than he?s ever been. He?s on your TV during the Super Bowl. He?s best friends with your favorite indie band. He?s constantly in your news feed,...
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