Here’s My Problem With The “For You” Feed on Social Media
It’s simply not what I’m looking for
The other day I logged into Medium to read some stories while my baby was asleep. So I went upstairs to read via my desktop.
I logged into Medium and there it was.
The “For You” feed serving me articles I didn’t want to read.
I wanted to show my students some examples of trending stories from specific topics I’m following but instead Medium showed me what I needed to read.
Boosted stories.
Only Medium has the human Boost on other platform the algorithm decides what you will see or not but the problem I have is still the same.
I don’t see what I want to see.
These stories isn’t what I signed up for.
It abandons the concept of my membership altogether.
Instead of seeing stories from writers I selected to follow, social media wants to tell me what to read.
That’s not the concept of the follow.
