You pay for facebook?
I did not know this:
First, Facebook’s late policy of charging me money to access the audience I worked to create annoys the ever living hell out of me. I’m not sure how almost every other post of mine ends up “outperforming 95% of your other posts,” and surely you want to give Facebook money so you can access your followers? If you don’t, we’ll be sure to only show your posts to about 1/8th of your audience, so pay up!
I haven’t paid them a dime. I suppose this would explain why the blog’s facebook page doesn’t see as much activity as it used to.
February 26th, 2015 at 12:20 pm
I strongly suspect both NGAVC and CSGV both ponied up cash to buy ‘likes’. They each went from stagnating at a few thousand for a long time to over 50K in less than month.
They still have nothing but keyboard activists and no influence though.
February 26th, 2015 at 12:25 pm
If you pay for likes, you get a lot of bots. I’ve never paid for likes or for reach with SNBQ. I have done it for some of our other sites. But yeah, Facebook totally kills your reach unless you pay up. That’s why I don’t get much interaction on Facebook.
February 26th, 2015 at 2:30 pm
I dumped Facebook as a name-day present to myself. It’s for people who don’t have real friends.
February 26th, 2015 at 4:37 pm
Facebook is a marvelous example of PT Barnum’s dictum about one being born every minute.
I wonder if the next generation of kids will be privacy-demanding anti-Millenials.
February 27th, 2015 at 7:42 am
Facebook has a cap on how many people can see your posts, if they suspect you’re a business. Last time I checked, it was 180 – so even if you have 30K followers, only 180 will see a new post by you unless they go directly to your page.
You can pay them, per post, to up the cap and be seen by more people who are following you. The reaction by authors has been to try to get fans to move to mailing lists for latest news and information, instead of facebook… it’ll be interesting to see what other businessses do.
February 27th, 2015 at 10:38 am
1/8th? I would love 1/8th.
Try 3%
February 27th, 2015 at 10:46 am
There are ways around Facebook’s attempt to restrict views, but it requires your viewers to have a clue.
1: the more they “like” or respond to posts the more posts they’ll see
2: if they add your page to an “interest list” they can view all your posts when they view that “interest list”
But both aren’t things that YOU have any control over…..