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Direct Links Into Facebook

Overview

Facebook is a type of discussion forum that attempts to organize content in a personalized newsfeed using multiple factors, including your relationships, interests, and engagement history. From a content provider’s perspective, it allows publishers to easily distribute their content using socialization features to maximize exposure and engagement.

It’s also become a video streaming platform, where videos can be watched like TV, often stripped of their original context. This separation allows videos to circulate independently of the post that contained them.

When news stories gain traction on Facebook, they can reach much broader audiences than traditional paywalled sites. However, many users only consume the headlines. The deeper content may be rehashed in the comments section, undermining the need for a subscription. Governments, such as Australia’s, have pushed back on Facebook’s monetization of unpaid journalistic content.

In theory, Facebook should be ideal for sharing interesting links. In practice, native content (screenshots or reuploads) is often prioritized in the algorithm over links to third-party platforms like Twitter or YouTube.

This leads to practices like #freebooting, where people repost someone else’s video content directly to Facebook to get more reach. See @kurzgesagt's video for more on this issue.

A Feed of Just Posts from Your Friends

If you’re feeling disconnected from actual friends on Facebook, try this link to limit your feed to only friends’ posts: 👉 www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr

Comment Search Limitations

One frustrating limitation is that Facebook does not index comments in its search. You can search posts, pages, groups, and videos — but not your own or others’ comments, even if they’re public. Some comments might occasionally surface via Google, but this is rare and unreliable.

Your only option for finding old comments is to manually scroll through your Activity Log: 👉 www.facebook.com/edmiidz/allactivity/

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-Facebook is a type of discussion forum, that tries to organize discussion content in an intelligent newsfeed based on multiple factors, including your relationships, your interests, and your historic engagement activity.
-From a content provider perspective, it gives publishers easy platform to share their content and attempt to promote it, using socialization features, to maximize its impact on potential consumers new streams, and get as much engagement as possible.
+==Direct Links Into Facebook==
+* [https://www.facebook.com/edmiidz/ Nik on Facebook]
+* [https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr Activity feeds from friends]
+* [https://www.facebook.com/edmiidz/allactivity/ My activity log]
-It is also a video streaming platform, where you can literally just sit back and watch it like a TV. In this way, it separates the video from its original post which encapsulated it.
+==Overview==
-When news is posted to the platform, it can trend significantly, and give us the news publisher much wider exposure to the story than could be possible if only published two windows publishers paid subscribers. The downside is, that the majority of people only consume the headlines, and many times the contents of the story get rehashed in the comments section, negating the need for having a paid subscription to consume the news. The jury is still out on whether Facebook helps news publishers, hurts them, but starting with Australia, several governments around the world have taken issue with Facebook profiting on advertising around stories that they didn't pay for.
+Facebook is a type of discussion forum that attempts to organize content in a personalized newsfeed using multiple factors, including your relationships, interests, and engagement history. From a content provider’s perspective, it allows publishers to easily distribute their content using socialization features to maximize exposure and engagement.
+It’s also become a '''video streaming platform''', where videos can be watched like TV, often stripped of their original context. This separation allows videos to circulate independently of the post that contained them.
-In theory, it is a good platform for sharing interesting web content, but in practice, if you share a link to a tweet that is going viral, the presentation of said link, and the news stream algorithm will not give it nearly the same exposure, compared with taking a screenshot of the tweet and posting it directly to Facebook.
+When news stories gain traction on Facebook, they can reach much broader audiences than traditional paywalled sites. However, many users only consume the headlines. The deeper content may be rehashed in the comments section, undermining the need for a subscription. Governments, such as Australia’s, have pushed back on Facebook’s monetization of unpaid journalistic content.
-Recently, I discovered that if you don't feel it is helping you connect with your friends enough, you can actually choose to see a feed just based on posts from your friends:
+In theory, Facebook should be ideal for sharing interesting links. In practice, '''native content (screenshots or reuploads)''' is often prioritized in the algorithm over links to third-party platforms like Twitter or YouTube.
-https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr
+This leads to practices like '''#freebooting''', where people repost someone else’s video content directly to Facebook to get more reach. See [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q @kurzgesagt's video] for more on this issue.
-Similarly, if you share a link to an interesting YouTube video, or screen capture the video and post it as a new video to Facebook, the latter will get priority in the news streams. This practice is known as #freebooting, See [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q @kurzgesagt's video] to learn more.
+==A Feed of Just Posts from Your Friends==
+If you’re feeling disconnected from actual friends on Facebook, try this link to limit your feed to only friends’ posts:
+👉 [https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr]
-* [https://www.facebook.com/edmiidz/ Nik on Facebook]
+==Comment Search Limitations==
+One frustrating limitation is that '''Facebook does not index comments''' in its search.
+You can search posts, pages, groups, and videos — but not your own or others’ comments, even if they’re public.
+Some comments might occasionally surface via Google, but this is rare and unreliable.
+Your only option for finding old comments is to '''manually scroll through your Activity Log''':
+👉 [https://www.facebook.com/edmiidz/allactivity/ www.facebook.com/edmiidz/allactivity/]
+[[File:Facebook_Screenshot_2024-03-27_at_11.25.21_AM.png|400px|thumb|right|Facebook with some disturbing image]]
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