Improving Feed Quality: Facebook Adds Comments

June 25th, 2008 by Nick Gonzalez

It’s been widely reported that Facebook has added comments to their mini feed. Justin Smith with Inside Facebook has screen grabs.

Why is this important? It’s another sign that Facebook is looking to improve feed quality, and in turn app quality. I’ll hazard a guess to suggest that Facebook will be taking comments into account when grading the value of a newsfeed item, in the same way they’ve added small, medium, and large feed stories as another signal or quality.

This impacts developers, because news feed items have consistently been referenced as one of the second most important viral channels after direct invites. If newsfeed items have a higher bar to be noticed, then it can clamp down on the channel. Developers will have to start creating content that inspires conversation.

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djksar 1 year ago 1 point
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but will they improve on what the feed can bring in. It still doesn't support embed code from my wordpress blog rss feed.

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n4aat 1 year ago 1 point
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Very disappointed to see such dodgy advertising going on.

For example, a poor quality IQ test that asks for operator company and mobile phone number at the end so that unsuspecting people can be sent crappy texts stealing money off them

Poor show Facebook. You are going to get slated inthe media for this. If not by others then by me.

Really really bad form

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jenny Orr 1 year ago 1 point
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that does sound bad. When will facebook learn to incorporate adverts that are not at the expense of its members.

Many users are said to not mind seeing banner ads around the page if they are relevant to them which surely is possible given the abundance of data we enter on these sites. If ads where open and honest it would eliminate a lot of negative attitude towards them.

http://facevaluebook.blogspot.com/

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jenny Orr 1 year ago 1 point
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Yes I think more should be done to encourage good debates and conversation on facebook otherwise i think the novelty of facebook may soon die out and people will leave in search of more stimulating sites.

http://facevaluebook.blogspot.com/ discusses further issues on the use of social networks if anyone is interested

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