Social media platforms, on which most of us spend hours, have been in our lives for nearly 20 years. These platforms are spreading more and more day by day and are taking place in the daily activities of billions of people. Facebook, which is connected to Meta, is also among the most popular of these platforms.
Facebook has now announced with a new statement that the name of a feature that has been on its platform for more than 15 years has been changed. In the statements made by the company’s official Twitter account, it was stated that the name of the section called News Feed, which serves as a home page and where users can see the posts made by their friends and accounts they follow, was changed.
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The ‘News Feed’, which started to be used in 2006 as of the Tuesday the announcement was made; In other words, it was stated that the name of the ‘News Feed’ section will be changed. Giant company, the new name for the part where the shares are seen is ‘Feed’; i.e. it would be ‘Flow’. It was also among the news that this change will be fully implemented in the coming weeks.
A spokesperson for Facebook told The Verge that this decision was made to better reflect the diversity of content seen in the stream. It should also be noted that this decision came after criticism of Facebook’s ranking of content. Roofing company Meta says it’s trying to reduce people seeing less political or misinformed content in the main stream; Although he said that people will see more content from their family and friends, officials stated that they are investigating how these content are ranked algorithmically and whether such content gets more engagement.
It was also among the news that the presence of such a part on the platform may confuse people. In a note sent to employees by Meta, it was stated that people can think of ‘News Feed’ as a section where news can be read instead of what their friends share.
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