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Facebook is giving people a more direct way to say what they want in Feed and Reels. Its new Your algorithm controls accept interests in the user's own words, instead of relying only on the clues left by likes, comments and viewing habits. Meta says recommendations can respond within the same session.
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Start with the post menu
According to Meta's announcement, Your algorithm is rolling out through the three-dot menu. People can add and manage topics there. Facebook may also ask a follow-up question after someone chooses Interested or Not interested on a post, giving them space to explain what they liked or disliked.
The extra detail can help distinguish a topic from a particular treatment of it. A person might want cooking videos but not competitive eating clips. That is an example of the kind of preference a reader could describe, not a prompt we have tested or a promised filtering result. The rollout notice does not provide a country-by-country availability list.
Does this turn off the algorithm?
No. Meta's technical explanation says freeform text is being combined with the information its ranking systems already use. The feed still comes from a recommender system; the change gives it a more explicit instruction. It is not a switch to an unranked, chronological feed.
That difference is useful when choosing what to watch across Facebook's many video categories. A request to show less of a topic is feedback about discovery, not evidence that every matching post will be removed.
Saving a video is another task entirely. If an uploader permits that use, our Facebook video and Reels guide covers the separate workflow. This update is about the recommendations a person encounters, not a new download entitlement.
