Scroll... Scroll... Scroll...
It is very difficult to try to slow down your media use and walk-through an audience about the decisions you make while scrolling through your Facebook feed. I had a hard time with it, because I just kept wanting to quickly scroll through without thinking. Nothing was grabbing my attention right off the bat and it was all pretty boring.
I decided to do a little experiment and set my news feed to "Recent Posts" instead of "Top Stories," just because I know sometimes I get frustrated when I check Facebook multiple times a day and the same posts keep popping up.
For 25 minutes I walked my friend/webcam through my thoughts while I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, and it was really boring, because I didn't interact with my friends' posts at all. I liked 2 things in the 25 minutes I spent on recent posts. Then I switched to top stories and immediately liked 6 things within 3 minutes. Facebook really has been tracking my use and knows what I want to see. The top stories option is definitely a better filter if I want to interact more with my Facebook community.
I have 791 friends on Facebook and I ignored most of their posts, while scrolling through the most recent ones. My friend, who I was doing the walk-through for, even asked why I was friends with these people if I didn't care, and I just replied, "I don't know." Even as I was answering I became distracted by a friend's post that finally had caught my eye. Just proving I have a short attention span while on Facebook and, in general, using new media.
"Why am I friends with these people?"
"That's kinda funny, but I'm not gonna like it cause I don't care."
"I don't give a s*** again..."
"He's a dumba**, so I'm gonna ignore that..."
"I'm gonna like this because it makes me laugh."
"This is really difficult. I can't slow this down. Ugh."
So now I have no idea why I even use Facebook, most of the content that I receive is just ignored and I should probably just delete a lot of my friends. This also makes me appreciate the top stories filter a whole lot more than before. Although we have discussed that Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, etc. are tracking our cookies and causing this "filter bubble" around each user, in this instance I don't mind as much, because I feel like I went through a lot of junk in the recent posts, while the top stories at least caught my attention one after the other.
I decided to do a little experiment and set my news feed to "Recent Posts" instead of "Top Stories," just because I know sometimes I get frustrated when I check Facebook multiple times a day and the same posts keep popping up.
For 25 minutes I walked my friend/webcam through my thoughts while I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, and it was really boring, because I didn't interact with my friends' posts at all. I liked 2 things in the 25 minutes I spent on recent posts. Then I switched to top stories and immediately liked 6 things within 3 minutes. Facebook really has been tracking my use and knows what I want to see. The top stories option is definitely a better filter if I want to interact more with my Facebook community.
I have 791 friends on Facebook and I ignored most of their posts, while scrolling through the most recent ones. My friend, who I was doing the walk-through for, even asked why I was friends with these people if I didn't care, and I just replied, "I don't know." Even as I was answering I became distracted by a friend's post that finally had caught my eye. Just proving I have a short attention span while on Facebook and, in general, using new media.
"Why am I friends with these people?"
"That's kinda funny, but I'm not gonna like it cause I don't care."
"I don't give a s*** again..."
"He's a dumba**, so I'm gonna ignore that..."
"I'm gonna like this because it makes me laugh."
"This is really difficult. I can't slow this down. Ugh."
So now I have no idea why I even use Facebook, most of the content that I receive is just ignored and I should probably just delete a lot of my friends. This also makes me appreciate the top stories filter a whole lot more than before. Although we have discussed that Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, etc. are tracking our cookies and causing this "filter bubble" around each user, in this instance I don't mind as much, because I feel like I went through a lot of junk in the recent posts, while the top stories at least caught my attention one after the other.