By the time you finish reading this sentence, 20 more Facebook accounts have been created somewhere in the world. There are more than 864 million logins every single day with almost 5 billion shared posts each day and almost 300,000 statuses updated every minute.
Can you even begin to imagine and comprehend the amount of traffic and content generated by these users? And how does Facebook stay on top of all this unmoderated information? Well, it relies on an algorithm and the other users’ common sense.
We are sure you have stumbled, at some point, over content that shouldn’t be on Facebook, no algorithm is perfect and, if something abusive, violent, sexually explicit or hateful shows up, the network relies on you to report the inappropriate content.
Of course, even then you may not be successful, especially since your definition for “offensive content” might be a lot different than the one in Facebook’s internal guide.
All in all, it’s not a perfect system, but, judging by the very little inappropriate content we see every day, it either works pretty well or we have befriended the right people on Facebook.
For more information on the matter, here is a very well put together inphographic by the team at wersm.com:
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