Assignment 2

For this assignment I wanted to see Facebook do something radical to someone’s feed. I don’t use Facebook a lot so I watched my friend Kamou use his Facebook. He uses it more than anyone else I know and when I mentioned the possible experiments to him, he was fascinated. I never told him what the results of those experiments might be though, and I never explained the articles we read for class to him.

He really liked the idea of seeing what happened when he took a break from liking things, so we took that road. After the first few days he noticed that he was getting more updates from people rather than celebrity news, or sports. Here are a few more things we noticed.

• ·         Less post about brands
• ·         Less post about current news
• ·         More baby post, happy birthday post, and happy post from people he didn’t interact with
• ·         More overall post from people he interacted with

 He began to ask me, does how many times he visited a page a factor in this experiment. So he told me he would continue not liking things on Facebook, but he would visit only the sports pages daily. He didn’t comment or like any of the interesting post he came across, but he would click links to main articles.

In only a few days we began to see a few more sports post on his feed, or maybe we’re just overreacting. People he didn’t interact with popped up more often now, especially when they were talking about the cowboys, Adrian Peterson , ect. Here are a few thinks we noticed.

·         Slightly more post from the pages he visited more

• ·         Less post from people he interacted with
• ·         More post from people about topics on pages he visited the most
• ·         Less post about brands not featured on, or associated with the pages he visited the most

Today he liked a Worldstar Hip Hop post so that’s the end of our Facebook experiment. Tell me what you think.