Facebook is overhauling the way its News Feed algorithm works in order to encourage more user activity.
The new algorithm will change the posts you see first in your News Feed and weed out the posts it thinks you'd rather not look at. So instead of pushing content to the top of people's News Feeds based on how many people have interacted with the content, it will instead use feedback from users to decide.
Facebook has recently been asking tens of thousands of users to rate stories that appear in their News Feeds daily in order to develop the new algorithm.
According to a blog post from Facebook: "News Feed will begin to look at both the probability that you would want to see the story at the top of your feed and the probability that you will like, comment on, click or share a story."
"We will rank stories higher in feed which we think people might take action on, and which people might want to see near the top of their News Feed."
Via Sky News
