Facebook’s update was reportedly made to address some of the poor internet connections on several areas around the globe. In India, Brazil and Mexico, the update has isolated the posts which take several minutes longer to load and those that are fast even with an average connection.
The social media king has revealed that the news feed was updated so other countries would enjoy it without harming the loading time on several posts.
According to Reuters’ post, as reported by Yasmeen Abutaleb, “The Facebook app is able to select articles, pictures and videos to load based on the strength of users’ connections. If they have weak connectivity, News Feed will select content that is easier and faster to load, such as text articles or posts.
Facebook employees in India reported slow connectivities that often made the app frustrating to use, said Tom Alison, Facebook’s director of engineering. The company then sent a team to India, dedicated to delivering a faster News Feed experience in areas with weak connections.”
The report stated that the content in the news feed would be impossible to load if the internet connection is already slow, consequently loading several videos at the same time.
Dividing the megabites to different Facebook posts would be beneficial especially when the worst times of loading comes.
Furthermore, people in the Philippines, where the internet service providers charge expensively, and worse, the internet is undeniably slow, could still enjoy the update without getting relative loading time delays, as per the usual.
