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Re: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg

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so I am wondering whether Mark will able to answer more important questions on privacy and government requests etc if he chooses the most liked ones such as celebrity crush,dislike button,etc?

I asked about it on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-has-happened-to-Mark-Zuckerbergs-o...

Re: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg

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post #21

so I am wondering whether Mark will able to answer more important questions on privacy and government requests etc if he chooses the most liked ones such as celebrity crush,dislike button,etc?

I asked about it on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-has-happened-to-Mark-Zuckerbergs-o...

now let's wait for the answer. :)

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Top comment (for me): Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks (i also wan…

at my company, like many other companies... we've found that advertising on facebook is almost pointless (the paid adverts). the actual engaged customer return you get back is not enough to justify the cost.

Think about it, how many users are on facebook chatting with friends, see an advert, and suddenly say, "gee, i'm going to go buy that!". It doesn't happen often.

Re: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or "Why can't the news feed stay as 'most recent?"

It has been answered so many times. The data has shown that it actually hurts engagement. The algorithm is better than a simple time-ordered sort.

That's a reason for Facebook to care, but how does that help me, the end user?

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Top comment (for me): Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks (i also wan…

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> Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low

> Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks

> (i also wanted to know that is there any source to reach you ? if there is, i want to know..and if none..do establish one... a good idea can come from anywhere..from anyone.. )

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post #17

Top comment (for me): Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks (i also wan…

at my company, like many other companies... we've found that advertising on facebook is almost pointless (the paid adverts). the actual engaged customer return you get back is not enough to justify the cost. Think about it, how many users are on facebook chatting with friends, see an advert, and suddenly say, "gee, i'm going to go buy that!". It doesn't happen often.

Facebook's display ads won't be profitable for every direct response advertiser, but they are incredibly effective.

Have you tried working with third parties like Nanigans or Tellapart to optimize your ads?

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Top comment (for me): Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks (i also wan…

Removed quotation sidescrolling: > Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low > Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . tha…

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Re: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg

#28

I don't have a Facebook account so I can't post a question. Can someone post this question for me? Ask Zuck why he's invested so much money into making their own frankenstein PHP when they could have just used Java? I mean I like PHP and all. It's great for blogs or personal websites, but why would you invest all of that blood, sweat and beers into build something at that scale on PHP?

Well, at some point Facebook had a code base with a whole bunch of PHP and it was worth a lot of effort to make it more efficient. One possibility was rewriting stuff, one possibility was this project to make a different PHP compiler. It wasn't obvious what the right strategy was and the Facebook spirit is to try lots of stuff and see what works. So effort went into each, and basically each of the methods turned out worthwhile for some things. Nowadays a lot of components of Facebook are not written in PHP, especially the infrastructural components. But a lot are written in PHP and work goes into the compiler. So the answer is, it didn't happen dogmatically, it happened bit by bit.

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Top comment (for me): Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks (i also wan…

As a user of Facebook if all of the page's I've liked over the years were able to get my attention whenever they wanted it I would not be a Facebook user
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