We all love stalking people on Facebook. Don’t even try to deny it! Facebook’s new update will probably be a blessing for all stalkers. Last year, the site introduced the new Facebook reactions, that let people Like, Love, or react with Haha, Wow, or show everyone that they are Sad or Angry. Using and analysing the data from these reactions, the company has been sneakily planning this new update that will influence what we see on our news feed.

A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement, ‘Over the past year we’ve found that if people leave a Reaction on a post, it is an even stronger signal that they’d want to see that type of post than if they left a Like on the post. So we are updating News Feed to weigh reactions a little more than Likes when taking into account how relevant the story is to each person.’

Simply put, if you have been actively reacting to a certain type of posts, rather than just ‘liking’ them, you will now see similar kind of posts all over your feed. 

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As of now, all the reactions, including likes, are weighed the same in terms of how the news feed algorithm is influenced by your activity, and the new update is working towards changing that. The new update will consider the posts you react to as more engaging, than the ones you just merely ‘like’.

The new update is also a good reminder of how there’s no such thing as privacy anymore and your every move is being tracked and scrutinized online. But you can always just scroll and not like or react to posts.