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Facebook Changes Newsfeed Priorities

June 30, 2016 By Denise Ehrlich

Facebook will modify the algorithm to make way to new newsfeed priorities.

As users complained that the important updates from their friends and families tend to get lost in the realm of posts from publishers and advertisers, Facebook decided to change the newsfeed priorities.

The company officials said that the newsfeed algorithm will be modified in the next weeks in order to reorganize the order of the posts that appear on the main screen of the application.

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Facebook wants to keep its main purpose of connecting people with what is most important to them, friends, places, events and things, but with a focus on friends and family.

The newsfeed priorities will become posts that offer information and that are entertaining.

The updates will start to be active starting with Wednesday, when a part of the pages will be lowered in referrals. The pages are under a particular attention because they are in general held by public figures, publishers, businesses or organizations.

However, Facebook said that the pages that have a traffic driven by user sharing will still have a higher rank in the newsfeed than the ones that gain popularity only through their posts alone.

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The company started to modify the newsfeed algorithm one year ago. The previous changes included a push for photos, videos and status updates from friends. The number of posts about friends’ virtual actions was limited. Also, the programmers relaxed the rule against consecutive feeds belonging to one single person, which permitted users to have almost infinite number of posts in their newsfeed.

Facebook continuously tries to make the flow of post to be more and more relevant for the user. The algorithm aims to learn what are a person’s interest and best friends, either by directly asking the user or by monitoring its online pattern of actions.

While the last year’s changes focused on the user experience, this time Facebook will try to make the content concentrate more on people than on companies, organizations or public figures.

The algorithm will adapt according to the user’s behavior, which means that if a person will receive more likes and reactions, it will have priority in the newsfeed.

Facebook needs to scan thousands of stories when building a newsfeed, and even if an average user spends 50 minutes each day online it could never discover everything that is posted online by pages, friends and events they added under their profile.

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The Amazing Google Spaces

May 29, 2016 By Carol Harper

The Amazing Google Spaces

At this year’s I/O conference, Google announced their new services, products, and other projects. Most of the new apps are the developer’s updated versions of other products that are already on the market. This affirmation is true to all of them, except Google Spaces.

What is Google Spaces?

Another social networking app, Google Spaces is ingenious and gives the user an efficient control over conversations and messages.

The feature that differentiates it from other social network services is the focus on personal space. Therefore, users do not feel compelled to devote more time than necessary in the online.

Google designed it to be a place to share experiences. Therefore, the app can be used for book clubs, weekend trips, creating new friends, house hunts, and much more. Google Spaces seems to be the best place to share small projects.

The app has an inbuilt Youtube, Chrome and Google Search that completely improve the user’s experience. A person can search and share information in a smooth manner, without having to switch apps.

Another advantage of the app is that a user can have five or even more sites set on their page – which may prove to be useful at times. Every site is separated from the others. Only a single personal portal is available, but within it, a user can activate as many sites as they like.

The most amazing fact is that the app does not even require a sign-up.

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Google already has a lot of social apps and social services that were offered to the public. Hangouts, Google+ and even YouTube have seemed to have covered all existing social situations and communication needs for the company.

Users are overwhelmed with the number of apps developed for their social life.

Another commentary was that the interface is unusual, and sometimes conversation threads were difficult to find. It remains to be seen if Google will take time in dealing with this issues. For the moment, the app is just in testing.

Google Spaces is strictly connected to the Gmail account. The app is available for web, Android, and iOS users.

Because it’s trying to bring forth an entirely new concept of social networking, Google Spaces may be considered difficult to use in the first trial.

However, the company seems to have high hopes for its new project and will make sure to provide tips and tricks that will simplify things for their users and convince them of the new app’s advantages.

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Class-Action Lawsuit Against Facebook Over Unauthorized Message Scanning

December 25, 2014 By June Harris

We know: In spite of its best endeavors at demonstrating overall, Facebook and privacy have an oil/water repute – the most recent legitimate news concerning the organization won’t help that any, either. A California judge lately decided that The Social Network will confront a class-action charges following allegations that it peeped at clients’ private messages without agree to permission to deliver targeted ads.

Facebook strives to reject the claims, saying that it didn’t infringe upon any laws and that the claimed message scans were secured under an exemption in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, as indicated by Reuters. Which one particularly? That these “interceptions” are legal if they happen over the “standard course” of a service provider’s business. The supervising judge countered, saying that Zuckerberg and Co. botched to offer clarification of how the scans fell under the site’s standard course of business.

As the claim stands, it’d help any Facebook client that’d sent or got links by means of the site’s private message framework in the previous two years, as reported by Bloomberg. We’d be delinquent if we missed the conceivable pay-out, however: “as much as” $10,000 in damages for every client. Duplicate that by Facebook’s billion more clients, holding the one and you turn out to a whole lot of money.

In less thrilling news, the offended parties also need the social titan to quit scanning messages. Sound recognizable? Assuredly so, as Google is under comparative (however not class-action) legitimate investigation for message scanning of its own. The consequences of both of these cases will about surely have enormous impacts for how we communicate on the web getting up and go, and you can bet we’ll be following them directly in the impending year.

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