Facebook has gone ahead and done it. The company begun hiding the number of likes that posts have received, starting today in Australia.
You will see “John Doe and others” instead of “John Doe and 15 others” under your post. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong uncovered this test from a beta version of the social network’s app, earlier this month.
https://thenextweb.com/facebook/2019/09/27/facebook-tests-hiding-like-counts-just-like-instagram/
Here are 5 lessons for improving UX that brands and marketers can borrow from the UI of popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/content-marketing/5-ux-lessons-from-the-ui-of-facebook-twitter-and-linkedin/
In January, Facebook announced major and ongoing changes to its news feed to improve the user experience – and people’s lives. But will it work? And what does it mean for brands?
https://uk.kantar.com/tech/social/2018/what-do-the-facebook-news-feed-changes-really-mean/
Shares in Facebook Inc (FB.O) jumped 3 percent to a record high in early trading on Thursday, after reporting an almost 50 percent jump in quarterly revenue and promises to focus on users’ experience on the social network easing concerns over falling usage.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-results-research/facebook-soothes-market-nerves-with-user-experience-promise-idUSKBN1FL5E3/
The ongoing 'fake news' saga highlighted a previously unseen flaw in Facebook’s model: allowing open access to all became a liability to the social media giant’s brand, and therefore to the wider company.
http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2018/01/29/why-facebook-s-latest-facelift-should-provide-transparency-users-and-marketers/
Last Friday, Facebook’s Head of News Feed Adam Mosseri announced that Facebook will begin prioritizing content created by friends and family over content from the media, brands and other Pages since space in the News Feed is limited.
https://nextshark.com/facebook-news-saved-newsfeed-changes/
Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced upcoming changes to the way Facebook’s newsfeed operates, to make the experience more ‘meaningful’ for users.
The changes were prompted by Facebook’s increasing involvement in cyber-bullying, fake news, and other social issues, which have made the application ‘lose sight’ of its original intent to ‘bring people closer together’.
http://theliberal.ie/facebook-will-introduce-changes-to-its-newsfeed-to-make-the-user-experience-more-meaningful/
