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Chapter 2: Filtering
While reading the items on his feed, Bob notices that he is bothered by a problem that has been annoying him for a while now. Now that he has started using Hubbub, he thinks he can fix it.
Bob really enjoys programming, and one of his hobbies is to work on side projects which he uploads to the Web using sites like Google Code and Github. He shares this interest with many of his colleagues. A common action among this group is to post your latest project on Google+ for comments and shares, and Bob keeps up with these postings so his friends will spread the word about his projects in return. Unfortunately, some of the people in this group also post content that Bob is not interested in. For instance, his coworker Bill also uses his Google+ account to publish a stream-of-consciousness narrative of the misadventures he has with his 3-month-old child (Bob is currently happily single). Even worse, these posts are +1'ed en masse by other parents, bringing them up higher in the Google+ news feed than the posts about Bill's side projects. Telling Google+ to show less of Bill isn't a good solution because it also suppresses the side project posts. Bob uses Hubbub's filtering feature on his colleagues to prioritize posts about side projects over those about less essential life details. He does this through the following steps:
spending a lot of time skipping past emo quotes and photos of peoples' lunches, and that he's just not in the mood for all the stream-of-consciousness vapidity on Twitter and Facebook. He does the following:
- Notes Note a pattern in the posts that need to be filtered (here, that the projects posts have links to websites, while the life details posts don't. Also, they usually mention Google Code or Github)posts are blurbs and photos from Twitter and Facebook).
- Indicate to Hubbub which kind the kinds of post posts he wants to see less of.
Chapter 3: Saving Information
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