Mark Zuckerberg decides content from your actual friends is an 'OG' Facebook feature
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Meta has spent the last few years remaking Facebooks main feed into a discovery engine that primarily serves up recommended content from pages, groups and accounts users dont already follow. But while the company has said the change is necessary to compete with TikTok, its also frustrated Facebook users who miss seeing posts from people they actually know.Now, Meta is trying to remedy this with a revamped Friends section of the app that will only show posts and content related to your Facebook friends. The company says the update is the first of many meant to bring OG features back into the 21-year-old social network.With the update, the Friends tab of the Facebook app that used to only be for friend requests will now be home to a feed exclusively made up of content related to your friends. This includes feed and Story posts, as well as Reels, birthdays, friend requests and people you may know suggestions.While Meta is spinning the change as a part of a larger push to make Facebook feel more social, its not the first time the company has offered dedicated feeds for friend only content. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg showed off dedicated friends feed in 2022 amid the companys push to bring more recommendations to users home feeds. That feed, which surfaces posts from friends in reverse chronological order, is still available, though its somewhat buried in the app.Its not clear what else Meta has in store for other OG Facebook features that could play on nostalgia for the 21-year-old social network. (Facebooks once infamous poke feature already had a brief resurgence last year.) But its apparently a priority for Zuckerberg.I actually think that there's this whole opportunity that I think is going to be pretty fun to to go after and build which is just to kind of go one-by-one and build up a a bunch of these things that used to be these joyful experiences that people had as part of Facebook that just kind of don't exist on the internet today, Zuckerberg said in a podcast appearance promoting the change.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/mark-zuckerberg-decides-content-from-your-actual-friends-is-an-og-facebook-feature-180803853.html?src=rss
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