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>This overload means it now makes little sense to ask for the ‘chronological feed’ back. If you have 1,500 or 3,000 items a day, then the chronological feed is actually just the items you can be bothered to scroll through before giving up, which can only be 10% or 20% of what’s actually there. This will be sorted by no logical order at all except whether your friends happened to post them within the last hour. It’s not so much chronological in any useful sense as a random sample, where the randomizer is simply whatever time you yourself happen to open the app. ’What did any of the 300 people that I friended in the last 5 years post between 16:32 and 17:03?’ Meanwhile, giving us detailed manual controls and filters makes little more sense - the entire history of the tech industry tells us that actual normal people would never use them, even if they worked. People don't file.

I think the problem here is the implicit assumption that I want all 1000-1500 things. I don't, and neither does anyone else. What people want on Facebook is a feed of all the things people have actually posted. I want to see peoples' photos, and their status updates, and news articles they've shared.

I never ever want to see things people have liked, commented on or otherwise interacted with. How other people interact with Facebook is irrelevant to me. In fact, the whole system of people just commenting with someone's name to share something with them is very annoying.