Facebook uses an algorithm to rank each other's friends . The algorithm comes into operation when you open the home page and scroll through the news which, as you will see, is not in chronological order, when you search for friends and start writing only one letter and it is also evident in the box friends of your profile where only 6 appear.
In Facebook, nothing is random and there are several factors that influence this algorithm, unknown and secret, but that we can largely guess.
So, by eye, we could say that Facebook considers important the closest friends whose profile you often look at, those who often access Facebook and read what we write, those who have sent us messages recently, those who comment or appreciate our post and our photos, those who have common interests, those we comment and certainly also those who visit our profile often.
Facebook ranks everyone's friends with a score that can be extracted from the page code.
Who is curious about how Facebook puts our friends in order of importance as in a ranking, can use a script created by Arjun Sreedharan, very easy to use, safe and without side effects.
To use the script you only need to have the browser favorites bar visible by pressing the CTRL + Shift + B keys together.
Click and hold with the left mouse button to drag the link on the favorites bar.
Then log into Facebook, open your profile and click on the bookmark button you just added on the bookmarks bar.
Tested on Chrome, you get a nice list of the closest friends on Facebook (scroll down past the "undefined" entries) which are listed in order of importance, starting from your name.
For each name there is a score like 0.34657359027997 or 0.35292515092657 which seems a coefficient of importance, the lower the friend's score, the higher the rank
This script shows how Facebook sorts friends according to all those factors listed above and who knows what others.
By studying your habits and that ranking, you can perhaps understand something more about how Facebook orders them and maybe even find out what everyone would like to know from Facebook, that is, who visits our profile more .
