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Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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I think this is a great turning point for Facebook and might even bring Facebook back on the map SOCIAL media wise. Since almost all people I know barely use Facebook anymore for communication, because you just don’t see any posts by your friends no more.

I use fbpurity, which removes all the cruft. So basically I only see friends. Not much is happening on fb, except by a hand full of people

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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Big difference between what the article says: "The idea behind the Explore Feed is to help Facebook users discover more content across the social network, beyond posts from friends and Pages you already follow. Instead, this feed surfaces recommended content it thinks you might find interesting." And what the author of the Medium post says: "All posts by pages are moved from News Feed to Explore Feed. In main News Fe…

> If it's reduced back down into what it was in 2010, it's going to outrage a lot of older people who use it for more than a friend feed. And some people (like me) would be really happy. For me at least, the facebook feed at this point is just pure SPAM and garbage.

Likewise. But I know plenty of people who would be livid if suddenly they couldn't see the crap clickbait on their feed.

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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Big difference between what the article says: "The idea behind the Explore Feed is to help Facebook users discover more content across the social network, beyond posts from friends and Pages you already follow. Instead, this feed surfaces recommended content it thinks you might find interesting." And what the author of the Medium post says: "All posts by pages are moved from News Feed to Explore Feed. In main News Fe…

The "News Feed" => "Explore Feed" thing reminds me of this image, someone on Twitter created it when Twitter starting muddling around with their feed:

http://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2017/03/31/05706b1f-125b-...

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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Big difference between what the article says: "The idea behind the Explore Feed is to help Facebook users discover more content across the social network, beyond posts from friends and Pages you already follow. Instead, this feed surfaces recommended content it thinks you might find interesting." And what the author of the Medium post says: "All posts by pages are moved from News Feed to Explore Feed. In main News Fe…

The "News Feed" => "Explore Feed" thing reminds me of this image, someone on Twitter created it when Twitter starting muddling around with their feed: http://zdnet2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2017/03/31/05706b1f-125b-...

That image is by Jon Bois who went on to create 17776 https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football which is amazing.

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet they over time created this crucial need of local/small business to have a Facebook page if they want to engage with potential customers and such, but now they change this “contract”.

The truly evil thing here is that page admins are prompted relentlessly by Facebook to purchase "likes", which Facebook makes more and more worthless.

Not to even mention how totally fucking useless Facebook ads are. You'll only be seeing fake likes and followers from developing countries that only serve to dilute your reach and make you pay even more. Facebook is not and never will be in a hurry to change how many fake accounts are doing this kind of "like farming".

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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The annoying thing here, as a Facebook user, is that if I've liked the "Cute Puppies" page it's because I want to see their cute puppies. To then strip them entirely out of my Facebook feed unless they hand Facebook some cash feels like a step back in my usage of Facebook.

The annoying bit is that (with the current model), if my friend likes cute puppies, then I'm forever cursed with them too, at the expense of all the things I actually want to see.

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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If you are a small business owner and want to do paid promotion.Please not spend on likes, and boosting posts also doesn't help much. Create ads with very specific targeting and take users to your landing page and try to catch them again with retargeting. This will help you reach better audience and let you calculate definitive ROIs.

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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If I see how many companies don't create a homepage but rely on Facebook entirely. Or have a very stale homepage while they keep posting news on Facebook and Instagram. And I don't get it, if you use a free Wordpress setup with a few simple plug-ins you can already post all of your content immediately to all social media channels together with an update on your homepage.

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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The best part about Twitter is the simple timeline. Twitter doesn’t care about what the account represents, so all accounts have the same priority. Yes, Twitter has started to mess with its timeline, but that’s besides the point. Facebook’s noise problem is one that they themselves created. Countless of times I found myself subscribed to some page only because I liked one of their posts. Which is bullshit, because in…

Also, why is the second item in my newsfeed always a "Sponsored Link"

Re: Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen

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What are even facebook "pages you follow"? Is it anything that isn't a personal fb account in the friend list?

Do groups count in this category, or are groups a third category?

I don't think I follow any "pages" such as those created by companies or artists (apart from personal accounts).

If "pages" were basically fb's equivalent of corporate accounts, why would you want to follow them? Isn't that like signing up for commercials in your feed?

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