Just in case you were already having a FOMO Friday ('OMG I have no plans this weekend I bet everyone else is doing something really cool I'm just going to go home and watch Netflix all weekend and cry'), here's another thing to make you feel extra ace; Facebook has introduced curated newsfeeds - meaning people can choose not to see all your entertaining and informative posts if they don't want to.
The video describing the new mechanism is super cheery and super American. They say, 'We're expanding your newsfeed preferences in order to give you more control.' It says. 'You can choose the people and pages you see first. Now you can better customise your newsfeed giving you control of the stories you care about most.' And while the video is overlaid with calming music and nice pictures of people kayaking, the message that we're taking away from it is 'WE'VE CREATED THE FACEBOOK HUNGER GAMES. BE ENTERTAINING AS FUCK OR ELSE YOU'LL END UP AN ONLINE BILLY NO MATES JUST LIKE AN IRL BILLY NO MATES.' Thanks guys.
I mean the upside to all of this is that *you *can also curate your newsfeed, so 'goodbye!' to that annoying girl from school who posts a zillion selfies with her weird looking baby, and 'so long!' to that boy who posts casually racist comments with wild abandon and 'hello!' to that hot guy you met in a bar just once and haven't talked to since. Yeah, make sure your whole newsfeed is just that guy. That's healthy behaviour. Right?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.