Facebook mimics the TikTok feed and will have less news; Understand the changes

Facebook mimics the TikTok feed and will have less news;  Understand the changes

. schedule Facebook It has undergone another change – perhaps the most significant in recent years. In a move that appears to refer to Facebook as “the good times,” the app will now have an area with more posts from your friends, in chronological order, and less from other sources, such as news outlets.

It’s also possible that the new design inspiration will be more modern: TikTok, the main Headache Off target currently. In the vertical video grid, the content is actually shown based on the choices of the account owner.

On Facebook, this will happen in the new tab “feeds‘, which will contain subsections, such as ‘Friends’, ‘Groups’, ‘Pages’ and also one of the ‘Favorites’, which the user can customize. So, if you follow UOL on Facebook, for example, you will only see news if you enter” pages”.

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Facebook, new layout with feeds tab

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Suggested posts are no longer there, but there will still be ads.

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The social network also opens “Homepage‘, is visible when the app is opened. The new functionality includes a rating system based on machine learningA kind of artificial intelligence.

According to the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg explained in Your post about renewalHomepageYou will be where you are you will find out New content through recommendations.” In other words, it’s a more ‘compact’ and less personal version offeeds“.

In this area, it will also be possible to create Reels (still videos) and follow what is posted on the timeline and in Stories (24-hour videos). But this visual contents also got a dedicated tab for it, called Watch.

It is noteworthy that Facebook experienced a decrease in the number of users for the first time, in the last quarter of 2021. Rival TikTok is increasing: it has already reached 1 billion users, and according to forecasts by Insider Intelligence, 2022 should end with an average of 750 million monthly active users.

Also according to Zuckerberg’s article, this new design will be delivered to users gradually, so don’t be surprised if you have Application It hasn’t changed yet.

* With information from 9to5macAnd the the edge And the Axios

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