(What will Facebook do next). Perhaps that needs to be the theme of the class. In today’s news:
Facebook Now Lets US Users Pay $7 To Promote Posts To The News Feeds Of More Friends
Oy.
(What will Facebook do next). Perhaps that needs to be the theme of the class. In today’s news:
Facebook Now Lets US Users Pay $7 To Promote Posts To The News Feeds Of More Friends
Oy.
Also, posted especially for Kevin, two bloggers arguing about whether or not people should talk about politics on Facebook:
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/i-want-to-talk-about-politics-on-facebook/
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/get-out-of-my-facebook-politics/
I can see how promoted posts on Facebook could be useful (as the author mentioned, “I’m trying to sell all of my belongings before I move to Thailand”), but I have a feeling that it will mostly be abused (i.e. “Look! I paid $7 so that everyone, for sure, sees this picture of how adorable my child is!”) and therefore, not so useful. Unfortunately, I don’t feel that it will be a matter of if this feature gets rolled out in the U.S., but rather, when.
Yeah, I don’t think that people would be very receptive of their friends paying to get more attention. Remember how one of this weeks readings discussed how blog readers felt when the WOMM appeared to disturb the norms of the community.
So here’s a new twist to this story:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back
The interesting thing is that this does not just seem to affect business pages, but EVERYBODY, so in all likelihood, you are now only seeing a small percentage of your friends’ stories in your newsfeed. So why are we all still on Facebook?