The Algorithm of Assholes

Time to bitch about Facebook on the pseudonymous LJ blog.

This new, apparently totally random way of showing updates on FB sucks sweaty hairy bollocks! By chance I went to a guy's FB page today and saw that he'd posted a note saying he had a friend who was hiring for a full-time position for which I am well and goddamned qualified, as well as being well and goddamned interested in. But this post had gone up FIVE DAYS AGO! I'm lucky I even saw it now, but I sure would have liked to get a crack at it as soon as it was posted, rather than striking when the iron has already gone ice-cold.

Previously, the system of FB post-listings seemed to be a simple, straightforward chronological listing of what your FB friends had posted. Easy. Chronological, linear, eminently comprehensible. Now it's this stupid, seemingly random algorithm that posts things according to no scrutable criterion. Maybe because they got more comments or views, or they somehow resemble posts you've liked in the past, I don't know.

And I might have missed out on a good job opportunity because of it! Fuck you FB programmers! I hate your mommies!