How in the world can Facebook know what “news” will be most interesting to me? Stop making these stupid changes, Facebook!
They’ve been paying attention to what words show up in posts that get the most likes. They’ve learned that stuff about jobs, relationships, and children is really the news people are most interested in from their friends. Which they probably didn’t need to track anything to get, anybody that’s ever gotten a Christmas letter knows that, but they gathered data anyway.
You can tweak it some, you can change the filter on your friends (one at a time) to show everything from them. They really need to dramatically increase customizability, they have a lot of halfway decent ideas that if they gave me a dozen options to fiddle with could be perfect.