[ourcat]

Facebook is the same.

On reading these "trends", it's like they want us to feel like we just walked into a bar full of people that we loathe.

Earlier on Facebook I decided to see if there was anything at all interesting on the 'trending' tabs:

- Top Trends : 10 stories - Politics : 8 stories - Sports : 8 stories - Entertainments: 10 stories - Science & Technology : 1 story..

really?? pfft. Kids today.

[gbog]

That. And GP. And this is exactly the reason why I don't believe a single word in all the stuff about AI and deep blabla. If Facebook cannot suggest better news, it's because it's most probably impossible to simulate how my best friend did suggest me to watch les combatants (a French movie I loved). Neither the casting, the director (all unknown) or the theme (a young guy going to army training to follow a girl) or any other objective feature of the movie could have helped. It's done purely on feeling, intimate knowledge of our respective tastes, long time friendship (30 years). In a word, alchemy. That's just not going to be modelized any time soon or later.

The only thing I get from suggestions are either dim variants of the things I already liked, or random stuff high on popularity charts.