Facebook made a major change for the News Feed, the main system through which all the new posts of our friends and the pages followed in the social network are displayed, and below I will detail the three big news offered by the American company.
The changes are part of an attempt to Facebook to facilitate access to its social network for people who use very low speed internet connections, the News Feed being modified to display the content depending on the internet speed.
To begin with, if you are in the mountains or far from a city where you only have weak 2G or 3G connectivity, Facebook it will no longer display as many video clips in the News Feed and will focus on the posts of friends, whether they are simple, with pictures or with links to various other websites.
Furthermore, Facebook will automatically prioritize the display of content that we access, the content that should have been displayed next in the News Feed being disfavored, so that we will immediately see a post that we clicked on instead of other posts being loaded next.
What this means for those of us on the News Feed team is making sure people can load and scroll through the News Feed on any connection speed. We've worked on a few updates recently to improve the experience so it works seamlessly and quickly for people in all parts of the world.
Separately, Facebook has implemented the Progressive JPEG system for displaying pictures in its social network, so that users with a weak connection will see a very low resolution picture when they access it, while the higher resolution picture is loaded in the background.
Finally, Facebook has heard from some users that they would like to see their friends' old posts when they load new posts instead of seeing a blank screen, so now you'll see old news while new ones load. , so you don't have to be scared.
In order to be able to implement these changes, Facebook created a special algorithm that measures the internet speed of users, so if you've had problems connecting to Facebook lately, now you know why.
