The most recent rumor on Facebook is so stupid that I pray that this is true



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Conference workers speak at a demonstration booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference.
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Compared to other applications, Facebook may seem outright overwhelmed. A blogger recently described this site as "a dubious website that's hard to use and watch." Facebook seems to be aware of this problem and is currently testing an interface fit that is so stupidly aggressive. I sincerely hope that they will achieve it.

You no longer like to watch the news thread? Well, what if these moldy-ass News Feed posts were crammed into Stories, the hipper-like video thing, similar to Snapchat, Facebook added to all of its platforms. This is the principle of an experimental feature discovered by Jane Manchun Wong applications researcher, who shared Monday the images of the impious hybrid News and Stories (Snewstories Feed?).

"This integrates Posts and Stories into one, which allows users to consume both in the same reel of content," said Wong, tweeted, who discovered the prototype in the Facebook Android app, according to TechCrunch. "This user interface also displays regular sponsored publications, as would the news feed."

Sensational. Unbelievable. This is the kind of solution you would suggest if Mark Zuckerberg gave you exactly one minute to think about it. "Hmm, it seems that people who like to watch two-second videos do not look into the bottomless pit," said a high-level baby or technical executive. "I know, let's get the ads in the video space!"

Of course, as an unprecedented prototype, there is no guarantee that Facebook will actually publish this chimera of content both old and new in the world. I pray, however, that they do it. If not, how will I know who has updated their profile picture or what cola to buy by looking at random snippets of my friends? The motivation some users need to finally log out is also to contaminate the only part of Facebook that some people like with all the things they do not like.

Say what you want about Facebook, but it's still innovative. Of course, many of these innovations consist of ways to further monetize its captive user base without allowing too much of troublesome human rights violations – but that's capitalism, baby! And while we may not be getting the features we want from Silicon Valley's huge advertising monitoring systems, we're getting the ones we deserve.

[[[[Jane Manchun Wong]

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