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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI don't like Facebook's "trending" change
Instead of giving a short sentence summary of why something is trending, Facebook now just shows what the topic is in a word or two and indicates how many people are "talking about this." It will undoubtedly lead to more clicks because users will want to get a sense of why, but it will also result in more time wasted clicking on things that really aren't of interest.
Sigh.
Does anyone prefer the new "trending" format?
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/08/search-fyi-an-update-to-trending/?utm_source=1&utm_medium=1&utm_campaign=trending
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Younemeen
(58 posts)don't like it either
JBoy
(8,021 posts)Laurian
(2,593 posts)I rarely click on any trending items anymore.
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)But if you just hover your cursor over the link a box pops up with a little synopsis. Then you can click if you're interested.
True Dough
(17,306 posts)Thanks, johnp3907! That's helpful!
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Orrex
(63,216 posts)Or at least give me the option to eliminate it. I generally don't care what's "trending" because 99% of the time it's bullshit entertainment news.
If it's important, I'll hear about it from somewhere else, or I'll see it "trending" in a friend's posts anyway.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)No, I don't like it at all. Does that get them more money from ads?
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)FigTree
(347 posts)relayerbob
(6,544 posts)That's all that's needed in most cases. No clicking, no waiting. Just hover
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I don't get news from Facebook. I just use Facebook to find out friends and family daily occurances.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)........something like "Picture shows Michael Buble eating corn on the cob". Who would not want to click to get more details about that??!!!
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)I really don't pay too much attention to the trendjing topics anyway.
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trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)True Dough
(17,306 posts)It turns out humans still have some advantages over computer programs:
Three days after removing human editors, Facebook is already trending fake news
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/08/29/a-fake-headline-about-megyn-kelly-was-trending-on-facebook/
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)More of a picture storing/sharing site.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)It was clickbait before. It's clickbait now. I ignore clickbait.
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)I like that you have to click on it first, in order to see anything. That way I can hopefully avoid the most of it.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)and a quick summary will appear.