Facebook Stories tab: do you see this?

[Foxhound5366]

So last night I was watching a load of cat videos on Facebook (as one does).

My wife started watching over my shoulder and asked me who I was following ... I had no clue how I'd gotten to the videos, but I figured out they were from the Rocket tab:



The weird thing is that my wife doesn't have it on her Facebook app (which still just shows the usual four tabs at the top), even when she went into the Play store to update the app.

I read up on it and discovered it was a trial feature that Facebook had rolled out to a select group of users earlier in March: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/facebook-tries-a-second-news-feed-headed-by-a-rocket-ship-icon/

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the global test in a statement, saying “We are testing a complementary feed of popular articles, videos, and photos, customized for each person based on content that might be interesting to them. We’ve heard from people that they want an easy way to explore new content they haven’t connected with yet.”

I've got no clue how I got lucky to be picked and my wife didn't (we both have the same phone). Anybody else here get this?

 

[Drifter]

Facebook?

 

[Foxhound5366]

Facebook?

Oh look at you, so hip and counter-culture. I hereby award you 1000 emo points.

 

[latro]

Oh look at you, so hip and counter-culture. I hereby award you 1000 emo points.

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[Arksun]

Thread resurrection time yay!

Didn't see the point of creating a whole new thread about this, but since Facebook Stories became a permanent feature of the app, I've noticed something:

Nobody on my friends list uses it, so the stories bar is just populated with random greyed out profiles on my friend list, but I'm starting to wonder... how random is it?
I've noticed over the last few months that it's mainly people who I've been in recent contact with off-site and then first in the list the same one person who stays there and doesn't move.

About a month ago I deleted my facebook account and started up a new one. Been tagged in too much **** I don't want to be associated with and too much effort to remove six years of tags. The list was random for the first few days, but soon returned to the same pattern, and yes, the same one person first. All greyed out.

Interesting, innit?