Facebook Launches Newsfeed Rating System
Posted by Nick O'Neill on November 21st, 2007 2:43 PMFacebook has just launched their newsfeed rating system. Valleywag had previously leaked the rating system screenshots but it has just gone live. The system is pretty basic. If you like a newsfeed entry you can give it a thumbs up. If you don’t like it, you click the “X” to remove it from your feed and your newsfeed will slowly get better. This is pretty smart of Facebook given that the newsfeed is probably Facebook’s strongest asset.
There was a lot of discussion surrounding news feed optimization previously but that has since quelled and become almost irrelevant. Ultimately, it is the user that determines their newsfeed, not Facebook. If a user doesn’t like receiving newsfeed stories from your application, chances are they won’t be receving them for very long. What would be a nice addition to this rating system is to have new newsfeed items pop-up if you remove ones that you don’t like.
I’m not quite sure how heavily I’ll be using this feature but it is definitely cool! Screenshots have been attached below. Do you think this new feature is a good one?
(4.64 out of 5)
(4.16 out of 5)
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You make a very good point though. Perhaps they'll set up a page where you can view past stories that you've removed and unmark them.
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nick... i like this feature a lot! assuming it translates into better feed content. i can now get rid of all the application noise and see more of the interesting content my friends are adding. some applications add good content, but many don't. presumably, facebook will decipher the apps i like to hear from.
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So, if I click 'remove' whenever I see such an announcement, will Facebook be smart enough to realise that it's just her groups I don't want to know about, or will it think I don't want to know about groups for anyone?
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do you know if the news feed system also values the object or just the object type eg:
i don't want to see eric adding "ghosts" --> is application adds gonna show up less and / or eric doing adding applications and / or eric doing anything?
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But, as I went through my Feed, I found a bunch of stuff I've no interest in (like who's giving whom a gift, or news related to apps I don't have and don't care to add). So, we'll see - hopefully this nifty new instant feature will clean up the "visual noise" a bit.
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