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# How to set Facebook Feed and Reels preferences with Your algorithm

> Meta is rolling out topic controls and more detailed post feedback for Facebook Feed and Reels. This documentation-only guide explains the available steps and what remains untested.

By BIGCHANGE.AI Editorial

Published: 2026-10-14T21:06:16.650Z
Updated: 2026-10-14T21:06:16.650Z
Canonical: https://bigchange.ai/blog/facebook-your-algorithm-feed-reels-preferences-guide

![Conceptual charcoal illustration of one person holding a smartphone and tapping a three-dot post-menu mark; the rest of the screen is indistinct.](https://bigchange.ai/api/media/file/facebook-post-menu-choice-hero-v2.png)
AI-generated conceptual illustration by BIG CHANGE; no actual Facebook interface or account test is depicted.

Meta is rolling out **Your algorithm**, a Facebook control for adding and managing topics you want to see in Feed and Reels. The company also says it is adding more detailed feedback on individual posts. This guide follows [Meta's October 13 announcement](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/introducing-your-algorithm-facebook/). BIG CHANGE has not used the controls in an account or measured how a feed changes afterward.

## The big change

- **What changed:** Facebook is adding an explicit interest input to Feed and Reels ranking. People can manage topics in Your algorithm and, where offered, explain post feedback in their own words. Meta says this supplements the behavioral signals it already uses.
- **Why it matters:** Facebook users can state a preference directly when recommendations miss their interests. The control gives Meta a clearer input, though the company has not shown how reliably it changes an individual feed.
- **What to watch:** Meta has given no account or country timetable for the rollout. Account access is the immediate limit; the longer-term question is whether topic preferences visibly change later recommendations beyond Meta's real-time claim.

## Before you start

You need a Facebook account with the new controls available. Meta describes a rollout, but its announcement does not specify which accounts or countries have access, or when everyone will receive it. Have a topic you want to add or manage, or a Feed or Reels post on which you want to give feedback.

## Add or manage a topic

1. On a Facebook post, open the **three-dot menu**. Meta says it has updated this menu on posts to make the customization tools easier to reach.
2. If **Your algorithm** appears, open it. Meta identifies the three-dot menu as the route to this space.
3. Add a topic you want to see, or manage a topic already there, using the options shown in your account. Meta documents those two actions but does not publish a more detailed, stable sequence of buttons in the announcement.

The expected result is a topic preference in Your algorithm that Facebook can use when ranking recommendations in Feed and Reels. If the interface shows your topic list, check that it reflects the choice you made. That checks the visible preference, not whether the next posts will match it.

## Give feedback on a post

1. On a post in Feed or Reels, choose **Interested** or **Not interested** when that feedback option is offered. Use the choice that fits the post you are viewing.
2. If Facebook asks a follow-up question, you can add detail in your own words about what you want more or less of. Meta says it *may* ask; the text field is not a required step for every post.

Meta says its recommendations respond in real time to these inputs. That is a company claim about the ranking system, not a result BIG CHANGE has measured. A practical check is to confirm that the control accepted your selection, then watch subsequent recommendations over time. One post or session cannot establish that the whole Feed has changed, and Meta gives no guaranteed amount of change.

## If the control is missing

If **Your algorithm** does not appear in the three-dot menu, the announcement gives no alternate path or account-level switch to enable it. Check again as the rollout continues. You can use **Interested** or **Not interested** on a post if those options appear, even if the topic space does not. If a natural-language follow-up is absent, the initial feedback choice is the documented action; Meta says follow-up questions are optional offers.

Keep sensitive personal details out of any free-text preference you choose to submit to Facebook. You decide what to enter and can stop with the topic or post-level control. These are recommendation inputs; Meta does not describe them as a way to remove a post, change its audience or set an account privacy rule. The announcement states no price, usage limit or complete availability schedule. It does not explain precisely how much weight a topic or feedback choice receives beside other ranking signals.

## Sources & further reading

- [Meta, “Your Algorithm, Your Words: New Ways to Shape What You See on Facebook” (October 13, 2026)](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/introducing-your-algorithm-facebook/): the first-party announcement establishes the three-dot route to Your algorithm, topic add/manage actions, post-level Interested/Not interested feedback and possible natural-language follow-ups. It describes a rollout and claims real-time recommendation response, but gives no account or country list, detailed button sequence, price, quantitative feed-effect evidence or guarantee for an individual user. BIG CHANGE reviewed the announcement on October 14; it did not test a Facebook account.

## Sources

- [Your Algorithm, Your Words: New Ways to Shape What You See on Facebook](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/introducing-your-algorithm-facebook/) — Meta's first-party description of three-dot access, topic management, post-level feedback and optional free-text follow-up. Rolling release; no eligible account/country list, detailed UI sequence, independently measured Feed effect, pricing or usage-limit terms.