{"items": [{"author": "Dave", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941877897022", "anchor": "fb-941877897022", "service": "fb", "text": "Who are these monsters who don't like pictures of your cute kids tho", "timestamp": "1526590790"}, {"author": "Thomas", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941877897022&reply_comment_id=941894289172", "anchor": "fb-941877897022_941894289172", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Present!", "timestamp": "1526599421"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941879074662", "anchor": "fb-941879074662", "service": "fb", "text": "Find you some friends who like baby pictures AND blog posts.", "timestamp": "1526591245"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941883560672", "anchor": "fb-941883560672", "service": "fb", "text": "Fb link to group: Anna and Lily", "timestamp": "1526593205"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941889354062", "anchor": "fb-941889354062", "service": "fb", "text": "Shouldn't FB be able to infer this by \"liking circles\"? If there are 5 people whose likes of your posts tend to be correlated (because they are contra dancers and like a post iff it's about dancing), then FB only needs to show an image to a single representative from each of your circles (presumably the representative being the person most likely to like it within that circle).", "timestamp": "1526596837"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941889354062&reply_comment_id=941911863952", "anchor": "fb-941889354062_941911863952", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I think the problem is that propensity for liking kid stuff is orthagonal to membership in liking circles.", "timestamp": "1526609352"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941889354062&reply_comment_id=941916280102", "anchor": "fb-941889354062_941916280102", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Oh! Groups like EAs or contra dancers tend to also be friends with each other, which means FB can identify clusters and then apply logic like \"if these people in this cluster like it than so will the other people in the cluster\". But that doesn't work with kid stuff, since those people are not especially more likely to be friends with each other.", "timestamp": "1526611998"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941889354062&reply_comment_id=941976025372", "anchor": "fb-941889354062_941976025372", "service": "fb", "text": "→ So there will of course me partially overlapping liking circles (i.e., logically orthogonal). But I don't see why kids are a topic are particularly different than anything else. You say \"the case of kid stuff the difference in what people want to see is really strong\", but to me this just means FB will be able to learn which people are in the kids circle even faster.", "timestamp": "1526652627"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941889354062&reply_comment_id=941979528352", "anchor": "fb-941889354062_941979528352", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Sorry, I think it's that kid people aren't especially more likely to be friends with each other, not that it's a problem of partial overlap.", "timestamp": "1526654842"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941889354062&reply_comment_id=941980032342", "anchor": "fb-941889354062_941980032342", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Ahh, OK. I agree that if kid-liking propensity isn't correlated with friendship then FB has less info to go on, and it might be that your techniques gives them useful info. But I still think that, even if kid-liking is completely independent of all all other user properties, FB can still identify kid-likers given enough data from kid posts (and then show kid photos to only the kid-likers).", "timestamp": "1526655043"}, {"author": "opted out", "source_link": "#", "anchor": "unknown", "service": "unknown", "text": "this user has requested that their comments not be shown here", "timestamp": "1526611723"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941915925812&reply_comment_id=941916330002", "anchor": "fb-941915925812_941916330002", "service": "fb", "text": "→ They may, but if they do it doesn't work well. (Or, if they've fixed it it's been in the past ~1y)", "timestamp": "1526612040"}, {"author": "Evan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941917253152", "anchor": "fb-941917253152", "service": "fb", "text": "One might think hashtags would provide a useful answer here. But no, the algorithms mostly ignore them, and the humans treat them as an is form of emphasis, somehow in between quote marks and italics or something.", "timestamp": "1526612617"}, {"author": "Lisa", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941928241132", "anchor": "fb-941928241132", "service": "fb", "text": "Having worked in child welfare I have a different take on this topic. I think it's wise to be careful who can see pics of children (both by parents and by organizations, communities of faith, etc). When my son was young I also used a group to designate who could see anything I post with his picture in it. I don't think it's wise to post identifiable pics of other people's children without their permission.", "timestamp": "1526622618"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941951828862", "anchor": "fb-941951828862", "service": "fb", "text": "The solution is easy: Facebook should show all of your posts to everyone who has said they want to see all of your posts. :^(
I find Facebook's efforts to figure out what I want to see, and show me only that, incredibly frustrating.", "timestamp": "1526640668"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941951828862&reply_comment_id=941953485542", "anchor": "fb-941951828862_941953485542", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I don't think this would make fb better for most people, or even for me. It would probably take me 5hr/day to read everything one of my fb friends posted, so we need to sample somehow. Looking at my past interactions to show me more things like that seems pretty good.", "timestamp": "1526643632"}, {"author": "Josh", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941951828862&reply_comment_id=941953515482", "anchor": "fb-941951828862_941953515482", "service": "fb", "text": "→ At least giving you the option would be nice.
An easy-to-use tagging system seems like another easy solution.", "timestamp": "1526643688"}, {"author": "Pavel", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103198583195938016195", "anchor": "gp-1526655215123", "service": "gp", "text": "My wife and I created a shared album for kid pictures in Google Photos, and invited people to it. We absolutely don't want our kid's pictures on Facebook, open to effectively everyone who is our friend, or maybe even friend-of-a-friend. That way, the people who are interested in the photos can get notified when new ones are added, without either Facebook getting a hold of the photos, or sharing them with people who couldn't care less.", "timestamp": 1526655215}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941982332732", "anchor": "fb-941982332732", "service": "fb", "text": "Posts are only available to members. Is that just to be very aggressive about making sure Facebook only shows interested people? Or maybe the Facebook group is serving a purpose (privacy?) other than just the goals described here?", "timestamp": "1526656446"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=941982332732&reply_comment_id=941989912542", "anchor": "fb-941982332732_941989912542", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I forget why we did it that way", "timestamp": "1526660564"}, {"author": "Barbara", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/941877522772?comment_id=942234053282", "anchor": "fb-942234053282", "service": "fb", "text": "Why do I NOT receive the pictures if your kids ?", "timestamp": "1526821026"}]}