Facebook changes its design and introduces the chronological view

The Facebook News Feed section has been updated so users have more control over what they see and share, and can even change the view of posts – from the most recent – with the new chronological order .

The latest changes will allow users to select who can comment on each of their posts, from anyone to the people and pages the user tags, and thereby adjust the audience.

This tool is designed to help control how users want conversations to be in their public posts and to limit unwanted interactions.

On the other hand, and thanks to “favorites”, users will be able to control and prioritize the publications and pages of their friends. This tool allows you to add up to 30 contacts and pages so that your posts appear at the top.

Plus, they’ll be filtered to view them separately, with a new menu in the filter bar at the top of the news section. With this bar, you can also switch to a chronological order of publications – most recent first – different from that which results from the classification of the algorithm, reported the agency Europa Press.

Why i see this

The news section presents “new and relevant content”, suggestions for publications of pages and groups, not yet followed by the user, but which the social network “considers” that they may be of interest. They are mainly based on the interaction with the posts, related topics and the location.

Since Wednesday, Facebook offers details of the content it offers with the section “Why am I seeing this?”, So that the user knows the factors that led to its display.

Facebook announced the change in the design of its main page to include a content filter bar that allows users to choose which posts they want to see, EFE reported.

In a post on the company’s corporate blog, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg reported on the new design, which includes three options at the top of the page : “Home”, “Favorites” and “Recent”.

“Home”, “Favorites” and “Recent”

• If the first option, “Home” is chosen, the Internet user will continue to see the content as before, chosen by the algorithm according to his interests and supposed tastes according to his browsing history on the platform, a system that receives each time the most criticized for its potential to create social bubbles and reinforce political polarization.
• On the other hand, if the user chooses the “Favorites” option, only the messages from friends and pages that the social network considers to be the most “important” for him will appear, and he will be able to manually add and delete all those that he wants, so he can decide what you want to see and what you don’t want to see.
• The last section, “Recent”, shows all the content according to a strictly chronological criterion, so that the algorithm does not intervene at all and what is considered to be the most interesting for each user is not prioritized.

The new design will appear from this Wednesday to those who use Facebook on mobiles with the Android operating system and in the coming weeks for those who use iOS.

“The user needs to be able to better understand how algorithms work and why they make each decision, and also needs to be able to have more control over the content presented to them,” wrote Clegg, who titled his blog post “You and the algorithm: it takes two to tango”.

The former British politician devoted several paragraphs to justifying the position of those who feel ignored by artificial intelligence and argued that humans should be able to “disprove the algorithm and adjust or ignore the predictions that ‘he does”.