{"id":3996,"date":"2021-03-06T21:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2021-03-06T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:28:21","slug":"how-facebook-lies-in-notifications-to-get-you-to-interact-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/how-facebook-lies-in-notifications-to-get-you-to-interact-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Facebook lies in notifications to get you to interact with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I don&#8217;t usually check Facebook very often. I recently logged in to FB after a while and while I was browsing, I got a little pop up on the bottom left corner of the screen telling me that someone had shared a photo in a group that I follow 6 mins ago. So I clicked on the pop-up and it took me to the group. There I immediately noticed that the post that Facebook had told me about had actually been made 5 hours ago. I had noticed this in the past in my notifications but never had a pop-up about it before.<\/p>\n<p>This basically shows how much Facebook&#8217;s algorithms and UX trick you into engaging more on the site and stay there, by showing a message about a new post 6 mins ago they made me click over to check it out. However, this was posted over 5 hours ago and I might have already seen it. This is not a one time event, looking at my notifications, I see this happening very frequently&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210306_213930.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1055\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210306_213930.png 1055w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210306_213930-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210306_213930-1024x262.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot_20210306_213930-768x197.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1055px) 100vw, 1055px\" \/><br \/>\nScreen shot of the notification and the actual post. Note the time in each. <\/center><\/p>\n<p>Are others seeing this as well? At least with Twitter, I don&#8217;t see a message that someone has just tweeted something and then find out that that was sent hours ago. This along with all the other nonsense that Facebook is doing is why I don&#8217;t use it very often. I am on it mostly because others are there and they share pics etc from our trips &#038; travels on it. I am planning to do a full download of my entire Facebook account activity so that I have a record of it. I don&#8217;t think I will delete my account as of yet, but this is bordering on pushing me into deactivating the account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I don&#8217;t usually check Facebook very often. I recently logged in to FB after a while and while I was browsing, I got a little pop up on the bottom left corner of the screen telling me that someone had shared a photo in a group that I follow 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}