Imagine you want to friend an influential person on Facebook who you don’t know and with whom you have no friends in common. How would you go about the task? One option is simply to send an invitation ...

Facebook is updating the News Feed ranking algorithm to incorporate data from surveys about who you say are your closest friends and which links you find most worthwhile. Today Facebook announced it’s ...

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Since Facebook introduced algorithms to prioritise what you see on your news feed, it’s generally assumed that posts made by your pals would be shown over, say, promotional posts by company pages.