When you need to consider the location, time, interaction, profile clicks, frequency, and many other things, it is difficult to get a clear picture. Facebook tracks how often you chat or exchange messages with certain people. Interactions include both individual and group chats. Sending Facebook Messages, commenting, liking, and tagging are all forms of communication on the platform.
The algorithm collects data about how often you view certain profiles. Profile interactions are not the same as communication. They are wall posts, post likes, and post comments. If you tag someone in your posts, you can increase the algorithm value, too.
These interactions include all comments, likes, and tags in relation to photos on Facebook. Although it is closely connected to profile views, Facebook Search is a separate factor. It takes into consideration how often your friends type your name into the search bar.
If somebody searches you often and vice-versa, you are fueling the algorithm. Facebook bases a lot of its algorithms on mutual friends, so this parameter is important. Your recent friends may also get on top of the list. This happens if you have some form of interaction or communication with them. It is not uncommon that two or three out of nine of your top friends are all your recent friends.
The Facebook algorithm looks to push the most recent activity on top. If your friends are often logged in on Facebook and interact with different pages and profiles, they can move up on your list. The logic is that the people who are more often on Facebook will be those with who you will spend most of your time online.
Your chat sidebar works in a similar way. The More Friends section includes other online contacts you can interact with, and you can also use the search box to bring up a particular friend to chat with. Facebook enables you to set a specific list of friends to appear in the Chat sidebar if you don't want to use the site's automatic ranking system.
Click the small gear icon below the sidebar, choose "Advanced settings," and then turn chat off for all of your contacts except a specific group of users. Alternatively, turn chat on for all your contacts, but block a particular set of your friends from contacting you.
Click on any contact listed in the Chat sidebar to send a message. Friends who are online appear with a green dot by their name; friends who have the Facebook app installed on their cell phone or tablet have a mobile phone symbol by their name. If no dot or symbol appears, the friend is offline and chat messages are sent to the user's inbox for reading later.
An information technology journalist since , David Nield writes about the Web, technology, hardware and software. Home Social Media. Interactions Facebook doesn't reveal exactly how it calculates which contacts should appear at the top of your friends list, but it is based on your interactions with them.
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