Getting Noticed On Facebook as a New-Be

  Have you ever thought about if the statuses and wall posts you post are getting seen by your friends on facebook when you are fairly new to the website? Well, in the article “Cracking the Facebook Code” by Thomas E. Weber it explains how new facebook users aren’t being noticed by their facebook friends because facebook doesn’t show new users posts as much as older users. Why is this? Well, Weber and a few colleagues decided to do an experiment to find out if it is true that facebook is biased against new users. During this experiment they tested if posting a large amount of times a week would get your posts in your friends news feeds. The outcome was it didn’t help.  They tested friends interacting with you and your posts; and if your post doesn’t show up on your friend’s feeds then they can’t interact with your posts. That was a no for the outcome also.  After testing interacting with posts, they made some friends interact with the posts and then the facebook posts started to show up in friend’s news feeds. When the posts were showing up they didn’t show up in the “most recent” posts. Apparently the “most recent” posts are censored. On facebook you can change the posts settings to where you can see more than what you normally see for “most recent” posts. You can also stalk your facebook friends to see more of their posts.

I can really relate to this. I’m probably a facebook addict. I’m on there more then I need to be. Facebook is another way for my friends and I to communicate with each other besides texting. I never knew that new facebook users posts were not shown on older users feeds. I was actually wondering why my friend’s posts were not showing up in my feeds. Now I know it is because he just got a facebook. Reading through this makes me think about facebook stalking my friends and maybe my crushes. Anyone can read this article and think; I wonder if  ‘so and so’ stalks my facebook and that’s why they show up so much in my feeds. So I think I wont stalk any of my friends or crushes anymore thanks to this article. By reading this article I learned ways I can get my new statuses and posts noticed much more.