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Also: I feel like I'm swimming upstream against Facebook's algorithms, because when I post something cute about Maurice Sendak's reply to a child's fan letter, I get literally dozens of likes, and when I post a well-researched article on the Koch brothers withdrawing from national races in 2016, I get...three.

(I didn't post the Sendak post here only because it was a repost from someone else on my Facebook feed. If there's interest, I'll repost here.)

Edit: I have evidence that people thought that Koch brothers post was interesting because of the traffic it got on LiveJournal. Again, it's hard to tease out what is audience and what is algorithm, but on LJ I don't have to guess what an algorithm is doing to my posting visibility.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I dunno about algorithms but I'm betting those of us still on LJ are more dedicated to long-form reading on teh intarwebs. And I'm still only halfway through that Koch article, which is freaking fascinating.

[muffyjo]

I suck at facebook but am trying to get better (but I haven't seen any of your posts, I don't think, are we friends on Facebook?).

Meanwhile, I'm interested in links to both?

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Facebook sucks vast tracts of maggots. It makes zero sense in any way shape or form. I read it, but don't post or comment, and even just trying to read "most recent posts from those on your friends list" which should be a simple chronological listing, is completely buggered.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Even if The Algorithm makes an independent rating for each keyword in a posting, given the general correlation between various elements of political opinion, and also with various demographic factors, it would hardly be surprising if there were substantial statistical correlations along a "liberal-conservative" axis.

Then again, you're going to get the most reaction on Facebook on items that require the least depth and effort to process. Someone would have to think a while to figure out "What do I think and feel about the conservative stalwart Koch brothers not taking sides in the 2016 presidential election?" IIRC, in journalism, that's called a "think piece", and that doesn't imply "ratings gold!!!".