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I Just Paid Facebook $7

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Re: I Just Paid Facebook $7

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Post by denzil_correa »

alexhawdon wrote: post #44

One HUGE part of Facebook is photo sharing. It's the de-facto place to store and share your snaps. Why aren't they trying to make money out of this? I see two obvious routes they could take: Paid-for high-quality storage and sharing. One pays an annual premium to store high-quality versions of their photographs AND get copies of photos they feature in (subject to the appropriate permissions being gained). This one mi…

> _Printing. Photo printing. Bloody photo printing. It's a fucking tangible product that people buy. Why isn't this an option already? They wouldn't even have to set up their own infrastructure, just create a network of regional partners and skim off their 15%._

Perfect! This has two advantages - money from printing business plus it will urge people to upload more photos.

Re: I Just Paid Facebook $7

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Post by irishcoffee »

alexhawdon wrote: post #44

One HUGE part of Facebook is photo sharing. It's the de-facto place to store and share your snaps. Why aren't they trying to make money out of this? I see two obvious routes they could take: Paid-for high-quality storage and sharing. One pays an annual premium to store high-quality versions of their photographs AND get copies of photos they feature in (subject to the appropriate permissions being gained). This one mi…

I've never understood why fb didn't jump on the photo-sharing aspect of their platform. I got off fb years ago, but when I was on, that was the single biggest thing anyone did, post/share photos.

Re: I Just Paid Facebook $7

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Post by flyt »

PakG1 wrote: post #37
flyt wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add those people to your "close friends" FB friend list (it's a default list that everybody has and can't delete) and you'll get a FB notification every time they do something. It can be noisy but if you have a small core of people it'll ensure you never miss what they're up to.

Quoting myself: That ship somehow sailed a long time ago, and I'm not going to go through a manual process of ranking people to a special group, or anything like that, to fix the issue. Ironically, as Zuckerberg once famously said in response to Circles, "We found out that people hate making lists." If that feature were there when my Facebook friends numbered below 50, sure. Easy to sift through 50 to find 40. At ove…

You can't remember the names of <10 people that you count as your best friends and are already connected to on Facebook?

Re: I Just Paid Facebook $7

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Post by tomasien »

pootch wrote: post #23
tomasien wrote: post #12

For what it's worth: I made a living for years promoting personal and community projects primarily through social media. I didn't spam people, I focused on engaging people with meaningful content. I would use the shit out of this feature, and plan to use next week to announce a buddy of mine's album release because I honestly think it's something the majority of my Facebook friends will love to at least check out. As…

You are a spammer

I appreciate the support guys, but this is just trolling. Whether this poster was serious or not, he didn't have enough information to make this judgement and he did, emphatically. Classic trolling.

So for promoting bands on social media, what I would is provide interesting content to the broader audience, like if we made a cool youtube video, and then be sure people knew where to find information about shows, I.E. the event pages for those shows.

However, I did creep into the world of spam from time to time: I would post unsolicited posts on my friends walls about really important shows. However, I did this very carefully, posting it only on my friends walls who I KNEW were strong supporters and wouldn't mind. This increased visibility without annoying anyone too much.

But it was kind of spammy and I'm not here to defend myself on how I promoted local art and made a living. I think spam comes down to intentions and being open to feedback: if you don't want to see my messages anymore, I would stop sending them to you IMMEDIATELY, including sending you event invites , and excluding individuals from those used to be really hard.

Re: I Just Paid Facebook $7

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Post by tomasien »

lazugod wrote: post #25
tomasien wrote: post #12

For what it's worth: I made a living for years promoting personal and community projects primarily through social media. I didn't spam people, I focused on engaging people with meaningful content. I would use the shit out of this feature, and plan to use next week to announce a buddy of mine's album release because I honestly think it's something the majority of my Facebook friends will love to at least check out. As…

> but only GOOD content will actually benefit No, only commercial content will benefit.

Only good content that is tangentially commercial. I would read Dan Shipper's article "Selling Umbrella's in a Synagogue" for perspective on this

http://danshipper.com/selling-umbrellas-in-a-synagogue

Re: I Just Paid Facebook $7

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Post by PakG1 »

flyt wrote: post #53
PakG1 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quoting myself: That ship somehow sailed a long time ago, and I'm not going to go through a manual process of ranking people to a special group, or anything like that, to fix the issue. Ironically, as Zuckerberg once famously said in response to Circles, "We found out that people hate making lists." If that feature were there when my Facebook friends numbered below 50, sure. Easy to sift through 50 to find 40. At ove…

You can't remember the names of <10 people that you count as your best friends and are already connected to on Facebook?

Quoting myself (this edit happened long before your reply):

I can see the rebuttal coming: if you know 40 people's email addresses, you know 40 people's facebook names. Should be easy to add them to the special list. The point is not just that I be able to track them. It's also that we be willing to contact each other. There needs to be some momentum for us to all start caring to message each other on Facebook, otherwise the negative cycle continues. And we're too lazy to bother now. Honestly, I think anyone who tries to solve this problem doesn't realize that the problem's stakeholders don't care if it's not solved. Perhaps that's only in my case, I don't know.

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