If you've ever been shocked to find out that all your Facebook friends know what song you're listening to on Spotify, here's some good news.
Facebook announced Tuesday that from now on fewer "implicit stories" will make it into the News Feed. That's Facebook's way of describing automatic updates from third-party apps.
"We’ve found that stories people choose to explicitly share from third party apps are typically more interesting and get more engagement in News Feed than stories shared from third party apps without explicit action," the company wrote in a blog post. "We’ve also heard that people often feel surprised or confused by stories that are shared without taking an explicit action. In the coming months, we will continue to prioritize explicitly shared stories from apps in News Feed over implicitly shared stories."
In other words, if you opt to post something from an app it will have better circulation in the News Feed than if it's passively transmitted.
Facebook introduced such automatic updates from third-party apps, which were called Facebook Gestures, as part of its 2011 Timeline update. Such gestures included "read," "watch" and "listen" and were designed to share users' real-time activities in the feed. Such gestures showed up in users' Ticker, a column in the upper-right rail that is now gone for many users.
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