Today, I figured out why Facebook made your news feed show posts in a random order.
By “figured out”, I mean “postulate”.
They want you to spend as much time as possible on the platform. Showing posts your likely to engage — no matter the age — plays to a person’s need to not miss something.
If you your timeline showed chronologically by default AND you saw everyone in your friend list’s posts, you’d probably bail sooner.
I wanted to say that out loud.
No reason, really