I don’t understand how to use Facebook’s Sponsored Posts

Post by bora » Tue, Nov 20, 2012, 8:46 PM UTC

EvanKelly wrote: post #10

bora wrote: post #9

I have experienced the same with our page. Likes from parts of the world we don't engage in and this seems sketchy. Knowing that there are schemes exist to purchase likes for very cheap from certain parts of the world, one can't help but wonder if there is such a thing going on with these promoted posts. You wouldn't think so but our engagement is at an all time low now, even the promoted posts attract few likes but…

Even on my personal account it's pretty obvious that certain people don't see some of my posts unless there's some threshold of likes/comments. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, because my news feed would be an uncontrollable firehose if I saw everything. If I post something, it seems that friends within the network of the place I currently live are the first to see or respond (despite the time I post it) a…

Post by dfxm12 » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 4:03 AM UTC

EvanKelly wrote: post #12

bora wrote: post #11

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Re: your second paragraph, when you think about it, the FB mission of keeping you connected to your friends doesn't work because your distant friends remain distant and only closer friends show up in your feed. In my personal feed I keep seeing updates from the same 20 people over and over. I have no clue what the other 450 are up to unless I go to their pages. If all I wanted from FB was a relationship with my close…

That's an excellent point. For a while I thought "Man, my new friends in this city sure do use Facebook a lot more than my other friends", but a quick glance at a distant friend's timeline shows that isn't the case.