re: Looking through my feed this morning and TRump definitely won

I hear you. But the portion of your friends who’s posts are popping up on your feed are very unlikely to be all of your friends who are posting on Facebook. Facebook’s algorithms will pick out the portion of your friends who post the material that is most likely to affirm your position and show you those posts, while it will pick out the portion of your friends who post material you dislike and keep those posts off your feed. You’d have to literally go to each and every friend’s individual profile to get that information.


Not trying to post any of this to outright dismiss your final conclusion of the night being better for trump; that’s very possible, and maybe what you are seeing on your feed is a reflection of it. More so just sending along a general warning that you really really really don’t want to be extrapolating the trends on facebook’s feed to be indicative of the larger population. It is an exceptionally well designed machine built specifically to keep you engaged, not to keep you informed. So if there happens to be any inconsistency at all between the two, it’s worthwhile to be aware of which one Facebook is feeding you