Facebook will prioritize content that you deliberately share and limit updates posted on your behalf by third-party applications.
If you don't care about which photos your friends liked on Instagram, the songs they listened to on Spotify, or the DIY projects they pinned on Pinterest, you're in luck: Facebook announced a news feed change this week that will tone down automatically shared posts from applications.
These action posts were introduced in 2012 with the launch of Facebook's Open Graph, an initiative focused on encouraging people to "use stories to share the things they're doing, the people they're doing them with, and the places where they happen," the social network said.
The Washington Post, an early adopter of Open Graph, for example,automatically and controversially posted to Facebook the stories that users read.
Today, other big-name brands like Spotify, Nike+, and Pinterest all post actions in the ticker and news feed when a user listens to a song, completes a run, or pins something to a board. B
ut while Open Graph has helped a number of apps grow rapidly, Facebook users have grown weary of the spammy posts.
(Via informationweek.com)
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