[marricks]

I tried to spell out why, but here you go, my personal experience is this out of order sorting meant that if I tried to post anything besides vapid updates few people saw them. If Facebook wanted to go from chronological to some other transparent metric, like hotness, I'd be more okay then whatever this is. The fact this is on the feed, my profile, and heck, even searching for events last I saw, is disturbing.

Also, sorted by date was great for many years when they initially got popularity. I (and others IIRC) were pretty unhappy when it changed to this.

[ncr100]

Hypothetical solution: Wrap your serious posts in vapid trimmings.

[marricks]

That could be fun...

> "Look at this cute cat pic, the time for the proletariat to rise is nigh, so cute!"

[L_Rahman]

I have actually started doing this. I write a text post, but then include a topical, memey, feed friendly image with it. Engagement is much higher.

[majewsky]

I'm seeing this with blog posts, too. Where a serious topic is discussed, but it's illustrated with appropriately-captioned meme images. I wonder if they do it to please today's meme-craving reader, or just to avoid overly long sections of text without any breaks (what Germans lovingly call "Bleiwüste", i.e. "lead desert").