{"id":43934,"date":"2018-01-13T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T08:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43934"},"modified":"2018-01-13T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T08:57:52","slug":"facebook-edits-feeds-to-bring-less-news-more-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43934","title":{"rendered":"Facebook edits feeds to bring less news, more sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONDON Jan 13 (TNS):<\/strong> Facebook is changing what its users will see to highlight posts they are most likely to engage with and make time spent on social media more &#8220;meaningful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By cutting back on items that Facebook users tend to passively consume, the change could hurt news organizations and other businesses that rely on Facebook to share their content.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to help users to connect with people they care about, not make them feel depressed and isolated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The research shows that when we use social media to connect with people we care about, it can be good for our well-being,&#8221; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can feel more connected and less lonely, and that correlates with long term measures of happiness and health. On the other hand, passively reading articles or watching videos &#8212; even if they&#8217;re entertaining or informative &#8212; may not be as good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the revised regime, there will be fewer posts from brands, pages and media companies and more from people. There will be fewer videos, which Facebook considers &#8220;passive.&#8221; People will likely spend less time on Facebook as a result, the company says.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because even if people read such content on Facebook, they don&#8217;t necessarily comment or interact with it in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>But Facebook gave scant details about how it would define what&#8217;s &#8220;meaningful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The changes could shrink the social media giant&#8217;s role as a major news source for many people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s in the same direction that Facebook has been pursuing for a while: offering a place for discussion among individuals, a community space, rather than being a news source,&#8221; said Oh Se-uk, a senior researcher on digital news at the Korea Press Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Jan 13 (TNS): Facebook is changing what its users will see to highlight posts they are most likely to engage with and make time spent on social media more &#8220;meaningful.&#8221; By cutting back on items that Facebook users tend to passively consume, the change could hurt news organizations and other businesses that rely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[732],"class_list":["post-43934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-and-technology","tag-science-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43936,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43934\/revisions\/43936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}