Facebook's customers are advertisers and Zynga. Their entire rather large revenue stream comes from that. So anything that takes people out of Facebook.com reduces the amount of advertising they can send.
It doesn't seem like particularly difficult logic to follow from there that anything that pulls people off Facebook.com where they serve ads is a problem for Facebook.
As for bias - hey, I'm a nerd. I like nerdy things as much as the next nerd. But nerds aren't even close to a a significant proportion of normal human society, like it or not. We have an awful lot of impact - I'd go so far as to say we actually do a lot of running the modern world, but there really aren't a lot of us.
Normal human society freakin' loves gossip (whether pictorial or textual or just plain old direct in person chats). And most of them don't think in numbers, either.
This isn't something magical relating to humans today, either. you'll find exactly the same complaints going back through human history pretty much everywhere.
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It doesn't seem like particularly difficult logic to follow from there that anything that pulls people off Facebook.com where they serve ads is a problem for Facebook.
As for bias - hey, I'm a nerd. I like nerdy things as much as the next nerd. But nerds aren't even close to a a significant proportion of normal human society, like it or not. We have an awful lot of impact - I'd go so far as to say we actually do a lot of running the modern world, but there really aren't a lot of us.
Normal human society freakin' loves gossip (whether pictorial or textual or just plain old direct in person chats). And most of them don't think in numbers, either.
This isn't something magical relating to humans today, either. you'll find exactly the same complaints going back through human history pretty much everywhere.