[HN Gopher] Facebook to hide number of likes in trial aimed at i...
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       Facebook to hide number of likes in trial aimed at improving users'
       wellbeing
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-01-10 21:25 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | Daho0n wrote:
       | Facebook and users' well-being in one line? If FB cared they
       | should stop using an algorithm to try and keep users on FB as
       | much as possible. I'm 100% sure this is For The Good Of Facebook
       | - not for the good of users.
        
       | yyy888sss wrote:
       | We have this for Instagram in Australia already and I like it. I
       | noticed I would always look at the like count and judge a post
       | based on that before the change. Of course the real way to
       | 'improve your wellbeing' is to use social media sparingly or not
       | at all, the real motivation behind the change is probably to more
       | seamlessly integrate ads into the feed.
        
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