For those of you who are not yet aware of the most recent change, let us fill you in. Facebook (the same website that said they would NEVER charge) has now gone back on their word. While it’s true that it doesn’t cost anything to open an account (YET), Facebook has rolled out some new changes that will make it almost impossible to interact on there, unless you pay up.
For us bloggers, this is a HUGE deal! We spend thousands of dollars hosting giveaways, and advertising ourselves, in order to bring in more people. A large majority of us focus on Facebook as a main source of interaction. Heck, almost everyone has a Facebook account so it just made sense. Sadly, the money we’ve invested and the time we’ve invested, now seems to be moot.
Take a look at the screen cap in the post. This is what we (as admins) see on our Facebook page. There are several things I want to point out. The first, is the most obvious – the charges. As of right now, the large majority of our Facebook fans are NOT seeing what we post. This started a few months back when Facebook first introduced timeline. It’s evident that they planned this out for a while. That’s when you started noticing that pages you “liked” were no longer showing on your news feed. After all, Facebook knows what’s best. They know what it is that you want and when you want it (**rolling my eyes**).
Back to the charges. Those various fee’s you see in the photo – those are the prices they want us to pay, just so more people (who already “like” our page) can see our posts. We have over 22,000 Facebook fans. If we want a shot at everyone seeing what we post, it’ll cost us $100 per POST! Remember, this is also on top of the money we spent just to get our name out there, and gain those “likes”. Just like the screen cap says, we can “get more people who like our page, to see that post”.
Now look at the photo again, but take a peek at the people reached (bottom of the pic). Only 6% are able to see what we post. Six percent of 22,000+. This is a HUGE issue… and it doesn’t just effect us.
See, we’re able to hold giveaways, because companies want us to help them get their product in front of the general public. Be it a new website, kids toys, baby gear and more. That is an investment for them. They provide us with giveaway items for all of you (like the $150 Amazon Gift Card giveaway we’re doing), so you’re aware of their new products, and to generate interest. Makes sense, right?
Well… if you don’t see our updates, you don’t visit our blog. If you don’t visit our blog, our traffic rankings drop. If our traffic rankings drop, companies don’t want to sponsor giveaways. If they don’t sponsor giveaways…. no more awesome (and high dollar) freebies for you!!
So you see… this is the start of something terrible. It’s not just us. It’s all bloggers. Not even just the bloggers. It’s ALL businesses that rely on Facebook for fan interaction.
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One other thing I want to point out is that you have the ability to see us on Facebook, even if they don’t want you too. Here’s a post that Caity did, to walk you through the very easy steps. This will help you to see all of your favorite pages that Facebook has decided, you don’t need to see.
Because facebook isn’t making enough money as it is? Wow, greed is what ruins people.
That is just crap! If this happens I guess more people will be going back to myspace or going to google+ or some other social network.
This is BS! They are Millionaires anyways…why the heck does people have to be so greedy?…I myself is alike alot of you bloggers i live from pay check to pay check and the deals freebies and giveaways you guys offer help out alot! I just don’t understand this at all!
Do your research folks, this is COMPLETELY wrong. Yes there are new fees being added, but its for basically promoting your post like an add (instead of it being in its regular spot, it will keep your post near the top of “likers” feeds).
It’s not even close to manditory & its nothing like what this article is implying.
It’s exactly as we’re saying. What’s funny is.. it’s exactly what you’re saying too, but more so. Yes, this is an optional fee.. however, it’s a fee so fans (who have already liked our page of their own free will) will be more likely to see the post(s) we pay for. This comes AFTER they made it so fan page posts are hidden from the large majority of their followers.
Think of it like this…
Say you go to the store and buy a new wardrobe. Several months (maybe even a year later) while you’re in the shower, your husband comes in and hides some of the outfits. When you realize they’re nowhere to be found, he says “oh you can wear these again but it will cost you $100, each time you wear them. Or, you can just wear the ones I didn’t hide from you”. You’d be all “WTH”? That’s what it’s like for us.
~Renee~
Very well said Renee! Awesome analogy! Thank you for taking the time to put this very TRUE and ACCURATE article out for people to see what Facebook is pulling on us! Great job!
Edgerank naturally means a small percentage see the posts. The only difference is now they tell you how many have. Theres a reason why pafes need to post a couple of times a day. different users visit at different times and the longer since posting the less likely people are to see it. They are counting on people panicking like this so that they are more likely to buy
We’re certainly not going to buy. Not only is it priced way too high, we shouldn’t have to pay money to interact with people who already like our page. We noticed a while back that traffic decreased. Fans would come to our page and tell us that they haven’t seen our posts on their news feed.
They’ve gotten very greedy. Many of us have already paid to advertise on their site, just so we could get new fans. Then they made it so most of our fans don’t see us… and want us to pay more so they can – thus, paying multiple times for the same thing!
~Renee~
Actually, it just looks like they want you to pay if you want to hog the top spot on the default feed filter (I do believe it’s Top Stories). No big deal, in my opinion, since I really DON’T WANT games, blogs, and companies hogging my first view of Facebook when I log in.
Later, after I’ve gone through MY default list (actual friends), I’ll skim through what Facebook thinks I should. It’s actually very annoying to me that you think you should be able to shove every single post in my face instead of risking being lost in the mess of everyone else. Who cares? I get it. You wanna promote, you wanna keep getting your freebies because for every giveaway you do you get a product too. Woo flipping hoo. I want to be able to use a SOCIAL NETWORKING site to keep up with my SOCIAL NETWORK and be able to skim through everything else. So yeah, in my not so humble opinion, you should HAVE to pay to do so, though I’d prefer you pay me, but since I b*tch at facebook about it, I guess they deal with the annoyance too.
You are wrong. Flat out! It’s not about hogging the top spot. It’s about reaching the fans who have ALREADY like us – people who liked us for a reason. The promoted status does nothing more than highlight that message in the fans’ newsfeed (and add the word sponsored). Supposedly you’ll reach more of the fans that you already have, but that’s about it.
We’ve invested a lot of money as it is, to get our name out there. Buying ad space, doing giveaways (SEVERAL out of our own pockets), and networking with brands.
On another note. You must not be a follower of ours. If you were, you would know that what we post is a benefit to our fans. You said “you wanna keep getting your freebies because for every giveaway you do you get a product too.” Explain that to me. How do we get ANYTHING, from telling people that target is giving away beauty bags on their Facebook page? Or that Outback is offering a free bloomin’ onion? We post coupons, samples, freebies, etc. We’re a frugal living blog.
And we should have to pay YOU? For what? We’re doing all the work!! WE are the ones that work from sun up to sun down, compiling the best deals and freebies, sharing our recipes and craft ideas, showing people how to shop for free (or close to it) using coupons. We do this so our followers don’t have too. We help thousands upon thousands upon THOUSANDS of people, to save money and budget themselves. So, in MY not so humble opinion, you’re either completely clueless or completely selfish!
And FYI.. if you don’t want to see what a fan page posts… UNLIKE THE PAGE! #justsayin
~Renee~
Wow, I stumbled on this page from a Yahoo search, and I can tell you that I will never like you page after your rude rage against this person. Extremely unprofessional. No wonder no one wants to interact with or follow your Facebook posts.
L.S., I have nothing to do with the above comment. However I will say that LOTS of people want to follow our posts and interact with us. We chat with our readers and fans daily and are always available to answer questions and help people if they are confused with an offer. You won’t find many pages or sites out there that are willing to put as much time into interacting with readers as we are. We take pride in that.
If you are not a fan and are judging our entire site and page based on one comment, you are not getting the full picture and frankly are missing out on what could be a great friendship with a site.
When someone comes and attacks us and says we should “pay them” to have our posts seen – obviously it will ruffle some feathers. Seeing as we have put so much time, effort, and money into what we do – we do find some users comments offensive. Especially users who aren’t actually following our site and jump the gun to get snarky with us. ~Caity~
I have to say I’m shocked to see the owner of a blog being quite unprofessional in response to a poster.
I definitely see the points you’re making, but attacking others publicly affects how *everyone* sees you, including myself, who had never been to your page before, and now I’m turned off.
Clearly, there must be *something* in it for you, and though I completely understand your frustration for having paid to get all the followers you already have, if those 23,000 people are loyal users of the tidbits you post, I imagine they’ll go to your page on Facebook or your blog to see what you have, without any necessity for you to pull them in.
As a completely autonomous passerby, I thought you should know how the tone of this response hits those who see it, and the light it puts you in because of it.
Stephanie, first I’d like to say we didn’t “pay” to get all the followers we have. Getting all the followers we have was brought by hard work. Yes some of that work was giveaways and yes some of them were funded from our own pockets – but I wouldn’t say we paid for followers.
Yes our loyal followers do subscribe to our email and check our site on a regular basis, that’s not the full point though. A lot of them are following us on Facebook so they can hear about hot offers as they come up. When it comes to hot deals, many don’t last long. Imagine how many people miss out on a deal because Facebook decides that unless we pay them something, only a small percent (about 9% to be exact) will actually see that hot deal or freebie.
I’ll tell you the same as above, I had nothing to do with the above comment – but when someone comes and says we should pay them (not facebook, but them; as in like you saying we should pay you) it does cause feathers to get ruffled.
I’ll also mention that Renee blogged this and had hundreds of comments on this post between here and facebook. Most of them were not nice and many were saying that we were lying and needed to get our facts straight because this was a hoax, which it is not. After finding deals for 15 hours and responding to readers and followers all day, taking care of 5 kids, and trying to share some important info while getting attacked – the responses given back are not always sugar coated.
Sorry if we’ve offended anyone, but if you stick around and watch our page and responses you will see our true colors. We are who we are and most people love us. Sort of a take it or leave it kind of thing. There are some times when we deal with a lot of rude ugly comments. Sometimes we let them slide and nicely reply, and other times we’ve had our feel and speak our mind. Everyone has the right to voice their opinion and we hope everyone keeps it decent on our site.
Hope you have a nice night! ~Caity~
Here is what I heard because,those who advertise are losing money because so many use there mobile phones versus what you see on your computer,when those ads pop up on the side,this is how they think they will gain back revenue.
When infact,they will lose so much more by those who can’t afford it & leave for a free social network site.
Hello,
I am a Social Media Manager for a company with 13k Facebook fans, and there are some serious inaccuracies in this blog post that need to be addressed.
You stated, “As of right now, the large majority of our Facebook fans are NOT seeing what we post. This started a few months back when Facebook first introduced timeline.”
When the Facebook News Feed first launched, it displayed all the updates from all your friends in chronological order, in real time. But as far back as 2010, Facebook created something called EdgeRank, to sort the users’ News Feeds not chronologically, but in order of relevance or interest to you. As a result, users stopped seeing random status updates and photos from “some guy I met at a party one night” at the top of their News Feed. Instead, Facebook bubbled up posts from your friends who you interact with all the time, your family, and your significant other, because those are the people you engage with and care about the most on Facebook.
There’s a whole algorithm for how EdgeRank is calculated. I won’t go into it, but this is a good start to learn the basics: econsultancy.com/us/blog/7885-the-ultimate-guide-to-the-facebook-edgerank-algorithm
Long story short, Facebook did NOT all of a sudden start hiding Page’s updates when Timeline rolled out. Facebook Pages and how often their posts show up in the News Feed has always been governed by EdgeRank. The more you interact with a Page on Facebook (Like/Comment/Share), the more you will see updates from them in the future. This is how it has ALWAYS been for brand pages, since EdgeRank launched before brand pages even existed on Facebook.
So nothing has changed here. You can log into your Admin panel and see how many impressions each and every one of your posts has gotten, going back in time to when the data was first made available. You can also work on increasing your EdgeRank the old-fashioned (FREE) way — by posting compelling content that gets lots of Likes/Comments/Shares.
The only new thing that’s being introduced is a way for you to ensure that your posts are seen by a larger audience even if your EdgeRank sucks. You can pay a fee to amplify your posts, much like a Facebook Ad or Sponsored Story.
I think you should correct the errors in this article.
So explain something to me. How can people interact with us (like, share, comment, etc), if they can’t even see what we’re posting? Facebook changed a while back but it only got worse when Timeline rolled out. I should have been more specific in my post. I was referencing Timeline on personal pages, which i’ve had since October.
Regardless, why should anyone have to pay to interact with fans they already have? Facebook decided what users should see. As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind. People who didn’t see our posts, were unable to comment on them. It’s a catch 22.
As soon as someone clicks Like on your page, Facebook shows them your posts based on the Recency aspect of EdgeRank. Since I just liked your Page, Facebook will show me your posts along with other posts from friends, family etc.
However, if I see a couple of your posts in my News Feed and never interact with them (Like/Comment/Share, etc) then over time I will see your posts less and less. There are plenty of brands that I’ve Liked once and never interacted with since, and I rarely see them in my News Feed.
I get what you’re saying about a Catch-22. If you’ve posted a bunch of stuff that has gotten very little interaction then it can be hard to rebuild your EdgeRank.
But it’s not just YOUR affinity with a brand that determines whether or not it appears in your News Feed. Posts that have gotten lots of interaction from others are more likely to appear, even if you haven’t interacted with them in a while.
That’s why if a company I follow posts a status update about a sale, and that status update has 4,000 likes… Facebook will probably display that status update in my News Feed, even if I have never Liked/Commented/Shared anything from that brand.
As a marketer, you need to create compelling content that spurs lots of interaction for two reasons:
1) To strengthen the relationship between you and your most engaged fans.
2) To reach out to your less engaged fans and increase the attachment between them and your Page.
Understanding EdgeRank and learning how to build it up over time is an art and a science. You aren’t just “entitled” to continue blasting marketing messages at your fans just because they clicked the Like button once. It’s about developing relationships and maintaining them over time. It makes sense that Pages that do a bad job of engaging their fans would fade away over time. You have to nurture your community and grow those relationships.
The new ability for you to pay a fee to amplify a post is simply a way to bypass all the hard work it takes to grow and maintain your EdgeRank. If you’re willing to pay $100 per post, EdgeRank doesn’t matter and Facebook will serve your content to everyone.
If you don’t want to pay, then do it the old-fashioned way, that social marketing professionals have been doing it since Pages were launched — keep your audience interested, keep them creating Edges, and you’ll continue to have the privilege of space in the News Feed.
That’s very helpful info, thank you! We do engage the fans with more then just our blog posts. While that is a majority of what we post, we also post random things just for the heck of it. Could be a question as simple as “What do you call it? Q-pon or Coo-pon?”. Other times, we post a silly photo, or little tidbits of info. We try to keep it fresh while also keeping fans interested.
People that don’t see your posts are completely able to comment on them. They have to take the initiative and visit your page on their own without being prompted.
The more they take time to interact with your page, whether they see it in their timeline or not, the more they will see you in their timeline.
When you “like” a new page there is X period of time that the new information pops up in your feed. If you don’t interact with the page, then it loses priority. If I like 13k pages, there’s no way I’m going to be able to see all the posts from 13k pages in my news feed without it getting extremely bogged down and overwhelmed. I periodically go through and weed out pages I’ve liked. If I don’t interact with them (whether they post frequently or not) I’ll remove them. This automatically bumps pages that I’ve been missing out on to the top of my news feed, so I can interact with them more.
If fans aren’t THAT interested in what a page has to offer and they aren’t willing to take time out of their day or week to visit the page and interact with it, then they won’t see it.
Everyone seems hell bent on a “one click” promotion. Meaning, I see your post on my page, I click on it, I’m at your page. Advertising is rarely that easy. I’m willing to seek out companies/blogs that I like on my own time, outside of facebook or on facebook. I don’t rely on facebook to provide me with updates on these pages. Similarly, if there’s a page that I’m not really interested in at the moment, I’m more likely to “hide” the page until I need the product.
I can guarantee if a page was posting every 20 minutes and “clogging” my news feed I would hide it, whether I liked the page or not. I use social media to keep up with family and friends, advertising will always take a side seat to this. I would rather see 1-3 quality posts per day than 100 insignificant ones. Many blogs I know, will post links to a daily sheet of giveaways and then post discussions or something for the other posts.
Facebook is setting it up so that pages can pay for my time and space on my news feed. That’s fine. It will make me more selective in the pages that I like further ensuring that I’m more active on pages that interest me, thus being a better “fan”.
I can understand that. I understand what you’re saying. However, our posts are hardly insignificant. The people who “like” us, do so because they don’t want to miss out on all the great ways to save. That being said, we do post other random things as we enjoy interacting with our fans. Many bloggers won’t even reply to comments, whereas, we make it a point to respond to as many people as we humanly can.
We know that are hardcore loyal fans will always be there, and that is ultimately the most important thing. I just feel that those who liked us but haven’t seen out posts, may not remember us at all. If they don’t see us pop up in their feed, they don’t think about us.
I’ve seen it happen on my own news feed. Out of nowhere, I started seeing posts from fan pages that I didn’t even remember liking. I completely forget they even excited. Some were no longer relevant, while others are ones that I would have enjoyed participating in, had I seen their posts.
It unfortunate in your case because the way you’re managing your page is really bad for EdgeRank. If you post every 20 minutes, of course you’re not going to get 1000 interactions on every post.
In fact, looking at your recent posts, you seem to be averaging less than 10 interactions per post. To put it in perspective, thats .04% of your total fan base.
Think about how that data appears to the Facebook EdgeRank algorithm. It looks like you post too frequently and very few of your fans actually care about what you post.
Now, I’m not saying that’s the case. I know you do provide useful posts and people enjoy your Page and your blog. You’re trying to provide a “ticker” of the most recent coupons and deals.
But you need to be aware that the consequences of operating your Page this way means that your EdgeRank is being eroded rather quickly.
Do you perhaps have any recommendations for us? When we were posting every hour, we didn’t get as many page views on our blog. When we upped it to every 30 minutes, it got better. We found that going every 15-20 minutes, was ideal for page views (which is ultimately, why we use Facebook). Do you have any suggestions as to what would be ideal?
We’re just 2 moms trying to run a blog. It started as a shared passion between the two of us, but has grown into a business that helps us provide for our families. Granted, we’re not getting rich off of it (though that would be great lol). We just need to make sure that people see our posts. People who share our passion for saving money, really seem to love our blog (and we love them too). If they don’t see our posts though, it negates all the hard work we’re doing.
We’re definitely open to suggestions if you’re willing to share!
I disagree with this comment somewhat here and agree with the original post above. I actually complained recently to FB that my “Liked” pages feeds do not show anymore as they used to many months before. Strangely some pages feeds would always show whether I clicked “like” on their posts or not and others I would have to go on their page to see posts. Last week I couldn’t access any of “Liked” pages when clicked on their link or when “searched” I complained again, now after couple days all feeds strangly started to show up. I agree that with Timeline change I got less feeds. It makes no sense when you click “like” to a page that FB simply won’t post their daily feeds, it is clear if you get lots of feeds including your friends feeds and you don’t visit frequently your FB you have to scroll back or check notifications to see all feeds and posts. – I disagree with FB to charge for “each pos”t so much, it is no more their policy “Always Free” something is certainly off here and their strategy is moving towards a bad path where they could ev. loose their account holders to other social sites, plus how do we really know how their statistic is true to justify to buy posts in order to reach more people. The statistic you could do yourself if you post a feed to request an answer with like the post, it is very much possible that people who do not visit FB on a daily basis will not see the posts on their first page but under notifications for sure
Facebook will probably charge more since they just lost 2 billion dollars in stock yesterday.
Wow thats insane!!! they are already benefiting from the people that you bringing to facebook too.
I think that there’s a misunderstanding as Carly states. A facebook page I’m an admin on consistently is seen by 50% of its fan base. Even after a dry spell of no-posting, a post is still viewed by a little bit less than 50% of the fan base.
While I absolutely guarantee that’s much less than before timeline (was almost 70% pre-timeline), it’s much more than 6%. The difference between having 50% of the fan base interact/see the page on a page that has a low number of fans (around 400) and on a page that has 20k+ is likely in the numbers. They have a reliable fan base, one that makes frequent purchases or interacts with the page at least weekly inquiring about products, sales, orders, etc. The page owner has an active dialogue with their fans and their fans aren’t just around for giveaways or winning something. They’re actually there for the content on the page.
Facebook has definitely inflated the “empty fan/hit” ratio. I can get a million people to visit my site by saying I’m offering $100. I will get people that have never heard of my blog liking it just for the chance to win. People that aren’t interested in what I’m selling or what I review or what I giveaway, people that just want money. Times are rough for a ton of people. I will be the first to admit, if I see a giveaway for a gift card, cash, or electronic item I’ll enter, without reading the blog, without intending to continue reading the blog. So, I have to like the page, doesn’t mean I have to read it. I can just “hide” it in my news feed and the page is none the wiser. They get a new fan, I get entered to win new stuff.
This is why it’s important to build an organic fan base. People that are referred to you by friends or seek your page out on their own. People that trust your opinion and reputation as a business or blog. Those people are much more likely to subscribe and interact with your page than people that swarm in for free money. Sure, you may not have 20k+ fans, but perhaps more than 6% of your fan base will interact with your page without you having to pay for it.
I’m not sure if you follow our blog on Facebook, but if take a peek, you’ll see that we typically post every 15-20 minutes. Being that we are frugal bloggers, we’re constantly updating our fans with new coupons, free samples, recipes, freebies, etc. It used to be that we’d post something and hundreds of people would visit the post on our blog. Now, it’s drastically reduced.
Countless people have told us that they don’t see us on their news feeds. People seem to enjoy the content on our blog, when they can see it.
Quoted from Jon on facebook:
“What you’ve written is wrong. All your likers see all your posts, in chronological order mixed in with the other 100s of pages they like and all their friends posts. If you want your posts to stay at the top of peoples news feed then you can pay for the privilege.”
I can assure you, that’s not true. See for yourself. Go to your news feed. Take a look at what’s on there. Now, look the right on your ticker. What shows on one, doesn’t show on the other. For months now, we’ve received numerous posts from fans, telling us that we haven’t shown on their feed in a while. This has been happening for quite some time but has recently become a big issue.
It’s all about a fan pages “reach” – the amount of people who will see your post. That’s where the 6% comes in. That’s how many people we can possibly reach (out of 22,000+) with each post.
This is just now REALLY blowing up. I think once everyone see’s for themselves, it will be clear to all. Right now, the changes aren’t even in effect for all users. We’re all on the same site (Facebook) but we’re not all on the same server. Once all Facebook servers have been updated, all fan page owners will see this for themselves. That is, unless Facebook wakes up and realizes that this is going to make them the New MySpace (ie.. people leaving for something bigger and better), and fixes this.
Facebook is no longer a private company they went public on Wall Street and are now subject to Wall Street Laws. By LAW they now MUST put profits first and increase profits every quarter or face thier stock getting creamed and the value of the company (and thier wallets) instantly lower.
My opinion (take it for what it’s worth), is that they know it’s only a matter of time before they’re no longer the “it” social media site. Being the “smart guy” that he is (Zuckerberg that is), he likely saw that coming. I bet he bought all the stock in Facebook when it IPO’d (turning billions in profit), then sold it off before the plummet.
If they keep this up, there won’t be a Facebook anymore. Perhaps, that’s what he had in mind though. Only time will tell.
Pretty shady that you won’t even approve and post my earlier comment.
Chill out, Andrea. I’m going through and approving as fast as I can. I have 5 kids, the blog and i’m still in the process of getting settled in to my new house. Before you rush to call someone shady, please take into consideration that I am human and “gasp”, need to multitask.
~Renee~
OK, I still think you could have approved the comment without replying to it. You approved a bunch of other comments that were posted after mine, and that seems shady to me.
Yes, but had I approved it without replying, I would have forgotten. I wanted a chance to reply. I can only remember to do that when it’s right here in front of me. I’m not sure what would be shady about a delay approval (or even no approval at all)… but ok.
True, you have a right to approve or not approve whatever you want. I just thought my comment added to this discussion and it was being ignored. I apologize!
No not at all! We approve positive, negative, and middle of the road responses. We’re not about censorship. The only things we don’t approve are spam, or seriously inappropriate comments (racist, violent, etc). I’m just running around like a maniac right now, trying to do several things at once. Keyword being TRYING lol.
I am really sad to see that a lot of readers are turning this into a bash the DGB fest. What a lot of you don’t realize is that bloggers spend hours and hours doing research on social media so we can bring you the best giveaways and content that the readers enjoy.
As for Facebook being “legally” required to make a profit, that is so far from the truth. Bylaws of public companies state that they must hold the shareholders best interest in hand when making company decisions. This is a “law” written by their board not the government.
As far as whether or not posts are being seen, I am a blogger myself and I don’t even see MY OWN blog posts in my timeline. How messed up is that. I have asked countless friends and family members about this, and the situation is the same for them and they are active on my page.
I think their point is, we were told by Facebook come and advertise your business on our websites it’s free, and now they expect us to pay per post so that all of our fans see the posts.
It’s not that we are being neglected, it’s the fact that most readers are fans for a reason. They want to hear what a page has to say, and according to Facebook they know better than you about what you should and shouldn’t be able to see on a regular basis.
Great post! I hope things change, but not holding my breath.
eye roll, when they start making me pay for face, im going back to myspace.
Personally, I am in total agreement with the The Daily Goodie Bag. Like any other company of this size, Facebook is going to find ways to extract money from everyone they possibly can.
There are so many ways a business can get around keeping a promise.
The most important concern is the bottom line. $$$$$$
I noticed the other day Facebook was selling coins to members who are addicted to playing their free games in Slotomania. It just seemed like an oxymoron to me.
I believe Facebook has messed up a good situation and members are starting to realize it. If Facebook continues to charge the membership a cost to interact, (no matter how they disguise it ) we will go somewhere else.
Wish they would just leave facebook the way it was from the beginning
I couldn’t agree more. Each change they make, makes it harder on everyone. It makes no sense why they keep doing these things!
~Renee~