{"id":8941,"date":"2023-02-11T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/11\/howd-you-find-me-whitney-port-the-mystery-of-facebooks-algorithm-finally-getting-me-right\/"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T10:37:59","slug":"howd-you-find-me-whitney-port-the-mystery-of-facebooks-algorithm-finally-getting-me-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/11\/howd-you-find-me-whitney-port-the-mystery-of-facebooks-algorithm-finally-getting-me-right\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u2019d you find me, Whitney Port? The mystery of Facebook\u2019s algorithm finally getting me right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media giant knew I would enjoy a reaction series of The Hills, a show I was obsessed with in the early aughts<\/p>\n<p>Whitney Port and her husband Tim Rosenman were surprised when I said I first found their video series on Facebook. Or rather, that it found me.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t expecting it myself. Though I mainly use Facebook to keep in touch with family all over the world, I occasionally find myself scrolling through an increasingly chaotic feed. It was there, in the abyss of poorly-produced, off-kilter videos that Port and Rosenman\u2019s reaction series \u2013 where they watch and comment on episodes of the MTV hit reality show and my high school-favorite, The Hills \u2013 somehow found me.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/feb\/11\/facebook-algorithm-mtv-the-hills-reaction-show\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fb46c516073e9f0d104c03f27e1b4297dd20ba85\/86_0_2459_1476\/master\/2459.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3fe7ef8a7c413aa77559036290effec2\" title=\"How\u2019d you find me, Whitney Port? The mystery of Facebook\u2019s algorithm finally getting me right\" \/>The social media giant knew I would enjoy a reaction series of The Hills, a show I was obsessed with in the early aughts<br \/>\nWhitney Port and her husband Tim Rosenman were surprised when I said I first found their video series on Facebook. Or rather, that it found me.<br \/>\nI wasn\u2019t expecting it myself. Though I mainly use Facebook to keep in touch with family all over the world, I occasionally find myself scrolling through an increasingly chaotic feed. It was there, in the abyss of poorly-produced, off-kilter videos that Port and Rosenman\u2019s reaction series \u2013 where they watch and comment on episodes of the MTV hit reality show and my high school-favorite, The Hills \u2013 somehow found me. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media giant knew I would enjoy a reaction series of The Hills, a show I was obsessed with in the early aughts Whitney Port and her husband Tim Rosenman were surprised when I said I first found their video series on Facebook. Or rather, that it found me. I wasn\u2019t expecting it myself. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/11\/howd-you-find-me-whitney-port-the-mystery-of-facebooks-algorithm-finally-getting-me-right\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How\u2019d you find me, Whitney Port? The mystery of Facebook\u2019s algorithm finally getting me right<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}