Facebook Testing Showing Photos from Your Friends as “Suggestions”
Facebook has a new experiment running, that appears to be aimed at increasing engagement on the right-hand column of some pages. In the “Suggestions” box on the right-hand side of some pages, including the Games dashboard and photos, it is showing photos from your friends’ albums and notices about unread messages.
The box has previously shown suggested friends or Pages you might want to become a fan of. The introduction of content from your friends could make that part of the page more interesting — the only other content in the column is advertising. If users get more used to looking at Suggestions for interesting material, overall engagement for the feature could increase, and they might be more likely to notice and click on the ads.
Strangely, though, Facebook seems to be showing photos from many months ago. We’ll probably see a variety of content as the test progress.
February 26th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
I don’t understand why they chose to do this. There’s also page suggestions for companies almost, kind of, a little bit similar to one you’re a fan of. I don’t care for either.
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:09 am
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September 28th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I absolutely hate this feature. I am forced to look at any random picture of someone on my friends list who i might NOT want to look at!!! wtf!! randomly throwing up my ex boyfriend…my boss….a client. Facebook needs to back the fuck off.