Facebook sucks.
Yes, I know complaining about the world's largest social media service is a hobby for some people, but it really does suck, and I have the hard, quantifiable data to back it up.
Here it is--
Your Facebook feed is set up by the company's mysterious “algorithm”, a formula that is supposed to give you things that want to see. As anyone who's on the service knows, that algorithm is highly subjective and highly variable; what it thinks you might find interesting one day doesn't come anywhere near what it thinks you might find interesting the next day, and can lead to all kinds of bizarre things popping up in your news feed, like the two or three days recently when my feed consisted almost exclusively of posts not from friends or pages I follow but instead from what could (literally) be every single Hooters restaurant in the US.
Me? Hooters restaurants? Really, Facebook?
So their algorithm is bizarre, to say the least. Like I said, what it determines people see varies from one day to the next. It's what drives people on the service insane (yet, conversely, may also be what keeps some of them hooked). I promised proof that it sucks, that it varies from one day to the next, and here it is--
I posted another “Pieces of the Past” video yesterday. When I did one last week it reached thousands of people and had almost 600 views. The one I posted yesterday, at the same time of day? It reached 40-ish people and had about a dozen views. I asked some people I knew had enjoyed the first one if they liked the one from yesterday, and to a person they said--
“You put up a new video yesterday”? Why yes, I did. Facebook just decided not to show it to you.
Stupid Facebook.
So, since only 12 people saw it, here it is. At least a few more people should enjoy a story of fire and how people entertained themselves before the internet.
And, have I mentioned—Facebook sucks?
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