KSPR ABC Springfield - For the second time in just over a week, Facebook has done an about-face on a feature that has bothered some users for a while. Fewer automatic posts will be showing up in your News Feed telling you what a friend is listening to on Spotify, which level they just defeated on "Candy Crush" or when they've posted a filtered selfie on Instagram. The social-media giant has announced it will be giving those posts less clout in its News Feed algorithm -- the tool that decides which posts you're mostly likely to want to see -- while giving extra emphasis to actions your friends choose to share. So, to use the Spotify example, you'll be less likely to see an automatic post when a friend listens to a song but more likely to notice when they share a playlist they just created. "We've found that stories people choose to explicitly share from third party apps are typically more interesting and get more engagement in News Feed than stories shared from third party apps without ex
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