Earlier this morning, we brought you word that Facebook has decided to provide users with additional control over their own News Feed – which is definitely a good thing for those who are control freaks, I guess. After all, that is where most Facebook users spend majority of their time while they’re on the social network, and apart from that, you will now have the chance to pick your own best friends and to keep those annoying ones hidden – which is an indirect way of Facebook conceding that after all this while, you yourself know best as to who your besties are, while other freeloaders and pesky people are not so hot on your list.
To continue from where we left off earlier this morning, one will be able to select as to which of their friends and interests will gain priority in the News Feed. Do you think that the way we select our best friends, or people whom we are able to find ourselves jiving with, can be quantified or boiled down to some sort of algorithm or mathematical formula? Conspiracy theorists out there, do share your thoughts.
Perhaps Facebook is relinquishing this bit of their social network to see how majority of the people select their friends whom they want to know what is going on in their lives, before quantifying it into an algorithm to introduce down the road. I personally think that there are too many variables involved to have that achieved ever, and you cannot tell the depth or closeness of a friendship through Facebook posts alone.