expect algorithms that make it less likely for a friend to see a post that has not been promoted.

Your newsfeed will be nothing but, "brands and adverts." and instead of your friends actually seeing what you have written, facebook will find all sorts of ways to make you irrelevant...

I know they've been doing this anyways..  but still...

whatever

I don't like the way Facebook is moving these days. Too much info in there and like you say, it's an advertisment platform, not a social site. 

THIS is a social website - Facebook is not, anymore.

I've tried promoting posts on my business page. To be honest I'm pissed to begin with that my posts only reach about 19% of my audience. I built up most of my page's likes through paid ads - so, having paid for those likes, I have to pay AGAIN in order to feed them content? Sucks big time. But, they're a private business, they're allowed to run their company how they choose, and I have the option to take it or leave it. 

So I promoted some posts. Just tried it with $5 or $10 promotions. I mean they work and all.....and the posts got 10x as many likes and they ordinarily would, and I picked up some new page likes in the process (from friends of followers seeing the posts), but like Linear Phase says, I have a feeling that the non-promoted posts are getting a smaller audience than they were, simply because I have embarked on a couple of paid campaigns. I need to start checking the figures. 

Facebook, pffffft

Never again for Bapu.

YMMV.

No social disease sites for me either.

craigb


No social disease sites for me either.

You can already pick up any every social disease known to man here.


Or, did I just make that up?

craigb


No social disease sites for me either.

*Other than the Coffee House
 
(Good point Bapsi!)

bapu

craigb


No social disease sites for me either.

You can already pick up any every social disease known to man here.


Or, did I just make that up?

That's what Mooch keeps sayin.....

Seems to me that FB still is what you make it, to a certain extent, of course. 

I have, say, 85 contacts. Some are on my restricted list and I've removed from my Newsfeed. For some I receive updates only once in a while. Then there's a few closer friends who are part of an exclusive list w/ an all access pass to my stuff and my Newsfeed is set so that I receive every update from them. 

I also have a bunch of subgroups - people from Montreal, people from Quebec, Musician buddies, etc... These sub-lists allow me to browse by specific groups of friends and have a custom newsfeed from them.

Same w/ companies - some I want in my list of "likes" so that I can easily find and contact them if needed, but I've removed from my newsfeed altogether.

If a friend of mine started promoting stuff on FB and it annoyed me, I'd just unsubscribe from them.