Yes, as I wrote it does un-clutter your news feed and other benefits beyond profitability. I was posting about another less apparent benefit that works in Facebook's favor. And yes math is very beneficial to the user in most cases and I didn't mean to give you the wrong impression about it. This post however has more to do with the psychological impact of the 18% visibility of your social network and its recourses, not the math that is used to calculate what and how much of it to show.
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Has it occurred to you that to increase their profitability, they must use "magic" (which I call math) that actually has a benefit to you?
Yes, as I wrote it does un-clutter your news feed and other benefits beyond profitability. I was posting about another less apparent benefit that works in Facebook's favor. And yes math is very beneficial to the user in most cases and I didn't mean to give you the wrong impression about it. This post however has more to do with the psychological impact of the 18% visibility of your social network and its recourses, not the math that is used to calculate what and how much of it to show.