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 * 1) News Feed

Algorithm
Facebook's proprietary algorithms compare the merits of about 2,000 potential posts every time the app is opened, using a complex system based on providing a meaningful experience, over that of clicks, reactions, or reading time.

The News Feed has been described as a filter bubble, showing users personalized results about information deemed interesting to them, in contrary to showing all information, even information that they disagree with. Facebook has been researching this situation since 2010, and initially used an algorithm known as EdgeRank.

By late 2013, clickbait articles had become significantly prevalent, leading Facebook's chief product officer Chris Cox's team to hire survey panels to assess how News Feed was working. Subsequently, Facebook began adding ever-increasing numbers of data points to its algorithm to significantly reduce clickbait.

'''The exact nature of Facebook's News Feed is only partly understood, as it is proprietary software. However, social media consulting firms like Hootsuite make revenue from guiding people through its workings. ''' 2. Privacy concerns with Social Media

Surveillance
While the concept of a worldwide communicative network seems to adhere to the public sphere model, market forces control access to such a resource. In 2010, investigation by The Wall Street Journal found that many of the most popular applications on Facebook were transmitting identifying information about users and their friends to advertisers and internet tracking companies, which is a violation of Facebook's privacy policy. The Wall Street Journal analyzed the ten most popular Facebook apps, including Zynga's FarmVille with 57 million users, and Zynga's Mafia Wars with 21.9 million users, and found that they were transmitting Facebook user IDs to data aggregators. Every online move leaves cyber footprints that are rapidly becoming fodder for research without people ever realizing it. Our social media "audience" is bigger than we actually know; our followers or friends aren't the only ones that can see information about us. Social media sites are collecting data from us just by searching something such as "favorite restaurant" on our search engine. Users data footprints create opportunities for companies and academics to research our social lives. Facebook is transformed from a public space to a behavioral laboratory," says the study, which cites a Harvard-based research project of 1,700 college-based Facebook users in which it became possible to "deanonymize parts of the data set," or cross-reference anonymous data to make student identification possible.

Some of Facebook's research on user behavior found that 71% of people drafted at least one post that they never posted. In 2013, Sauvik Das and Facebook's Adam Kramer coined the phrase "self-censorship" on Facebook, to describe the case in which users choose not to post a drafted message. Their study showed that 71% of users had engaged in self-censorship, with the phenomenon related to factors such as size and heterogeneity of audience. Later research has found that this phenomenon could have political biases. Another analyzed 400,000 posts and found that children's communication with parents decreases in frequency from age 13 but then rises when they move out