Facebook, I want my friends back
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Facebook, I want my friends back
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#3Look I can understand the "oh it's so convenient that you can now pay to promote your posts" but the "turning down the volume" on the Newsfeed was done because our Newsfeeds were getting overrun. People added too many friends, thousands more than the 150 it's been proven we can reasonably empathize with, and people were doing more and more on the network.
You can STILL see posts of your favorite bands by going to their pages, which is how you used to have to find updates: by checking for them. The Newsfeed is new, and it's not a right.
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#4Look I can understand the "oh it's so convenient that you can now pay to promote your posts" but the "turning down the volume" on the Newsfeed was done because our Newsfeeds were getting overrun. People added too many friends, thousands more than the 150 it's been proven we can reasonably empathize with, and people were doing more and more on the network. You can STILL see posts of your favorite bands by going to the…
I resist the urge to say "don't be silly" here because not everyone is intimately familiar with the evolution of Facebook. I can understand believing that full access to every single one of your fan's, even the ones who have been ignoring your posts, is a right you have as a Facebook user.
The only right you have is to control content on your own pages, for the most part, not what other people see in their Newsfeeds. If you thought about it for even a SECOND you'd realize that's exactly how it should be and that what these people are arguing for is for self-serving reasons only.
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#5Were they your friends or your customers? Or were your customers our actual inventory, what we sell to advertisers?
You built a business inside someone's shopping mall, they started charging rent, so you complain. And at $4 CPK for promoted posts[1], you'll find FB advertising to be slightly cheaper.
[1] CPK aka CPM aka cost per 1000 views. Calculated from: To reach 100% of of our 50k+ Facebook fans they’d charge us $200 per post. Edit: $200 / 50 = $4, thanks Ryan.
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#6I had hoped this article was going to be able how to convince your friends to communicate with a medium other than Facebook.
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#7Dangerous Minds is probably the best blog out there on the history of pop culture. (If there's one that is good or better, I'd like to know about it.) I started reading it regularly after running across it from three or four different angles. The main author can be shrill about controversies, but he's vastly knowledgeable about every nook and cranny of the last 50 years' worth of hipness.
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#8They're doing the same thing with non-fan pages. If you want your content to go to your friends you now have to pay for the privilege. It's nuts. I haven't been on Facebook since I saw this, they can keep their social graph.
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#9Look I can understand the "oh it's so convenient that you can now pay to promote your posts" but the "turning down the volume" on the Newsfeed was done because our Newsfeeds were getting overrun. People added too many friends, thousands more than the 150 it's been proven we can reasonably empathize with, and people were doing more and more on the network. You can STILL see posts of your favorite bands by going to the…
I resist the urge to say "don't be silly" here because not everyone is intimately familiar with the evolution of Facebook. I can understand believing that full access to every single one of your fan's, even the ones who have been ignoring your posts, is a right you have as a Facebook user. The only right you have is to control content on your own pages, for the most part, not what other people see in their Newsfeeds.…
> The only right you have is to control content on your own pages, for the most part, not what other people see in their Newsfeeds
Unless you pay the vig. Spam away as long as Zuck gets a taste.
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#10I had hoped this article was going to be able how to convince your friends to communicate with a medium other than Facebook.
This post misses the biggest logical point that is vitally needed: there was no Newsfeed in the beginning. At all.
Then there was a Newsfeed. Then it showed more than just wall posts. Then there were TOO MANY things on it, so they scaled it back. The Newsfeed was an experiment, and it worked, but it needed tweaking. That's why this happened.
That they now allow you to pay to promote is secondary to the original origin of why the Newsfeed works like it works. I'm glad to have the option to pay to promote and I'm glad larger fan bases need to pay more. Now, when I have something legitimate to announce, I can pay to do it. When I just want to engage, I better engage well or else I'll get buried. GOOD!