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[kirstenl4w]

OK, so the wait while the ads on LJ show themselves is frustrating, but at least when I go to read my friends page, I see everything. Facebook, on the other hand, is driving me to drink. An "algorithm" decides what I need to see in my live feed. I've tried adding people in through the "edit options" so I can see everything, and it still doesn't change it. Then I'll refresh, and as if by magic, everything is there. Another refresh and it disappears. I don't understand - I don't understand how to get to see everything I want, because it doesn't work when I follow the directions, I don't understand why FB feels the need to constantly fuck with things, and I don't understand why they aren't losing their user base left and right because of all this shit.

I give up for now. I need chocolate. And a drink, but I'm still at work.

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[ziola.livejournal.com]

My husband blames "the cloud". When Person A posts it goes first to one server and is farmed out to the others from there. If Person B then reloads and gets a server to which Person A's message hasn't yet arrived, Person B sees nothing.

I know cloud computing is "the way of the future" and whatnot, but this sucks.

[kirstenl4w.livejournal.com]

Nah, I still think it's this pseudo-popularity thing that FB is trying out.