Re:How Facebook makes us dumber
by themartorana on Monday January 11, 2016 @08:36AM
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Facebook likes have become almost useless to us. We have 61,000+ likes on one page and we're lucky if we "reach" (show up somewhere down their timeline) 1/12 of them in a week or month. "Boosting" every post is prohibitively expensive. So for 55,000 or so people, we'll never be able to interact with them in any way.
So, not worth much anymore.
Re:How Facebook makes us dumber
by snowwrestler on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:02PM
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Only boost your few posts that are getting interest on their own. It saves a lot of money and you already know it's engaging content.
If you're not getting any interest in any posts at all, maybe your content is just not interesting. Facebook always shows some of your posts to some of your followers.
Re:How Facebook makes us dumber
by inthewoods on Monday January 11, 2016 @07:19AM
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"At one point people estimated that a Facebook like was worth quite a lot of money. I am quite sure that now the value has greatly diminished"
Have you looked at a stock chart of Facebook recently? All time high basically and worth $220b.
Or did you mean the value the company brings to the user?
Value for the user. One Facebook "like" has various estimations of a price and some of them were quite hight (even going to thousands of dollars). A quickly found link from 2013 resumes some estimates: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-a-facebook-like-actua...
Re:How Facebook makes us dumber
by throwaway125 on Monday January 11, 2016 @07:49AM
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You misread what was said I think. It's about a facebook like, not about facebook itself.
Re:How Facebook makes us dumber
by inthewoods on Monday January 11, 2016 @09:11AM
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Ah my bad - need more coffee.
There are several reasons for that:
- First (at least for me), an unsolicited e-mail goes directly into trash and I seek the unsubscribe button. Under no circumstances I am interested in additional stuff somebody has to offer beyond the first service.
- People who did not buy your stuff/service can still like you on Facebook, they can do it after they have forgotten some login to your site etc.
- The single best advertising that actually works is recommendation from friends. I think that seeing that somebody else liked something on your feed gets pretty close to that.
- People do like to have all of their "Internet" in one place. Why go to mail if they can have everything in their feed?
- If you use Facebook then they solve a huge number of stuff for you - administration, spam filtering, server hosting, account management (there are other solutions to this of course, but it is good to be able to throw all of this on somebody else)
- I think posting on media sites wastes no more time than creating mailing lists and also requires less tools.
- Advertising for Facebook is mutually beneficial, the more people there are, the more you can reach.
- Also, ads on Facebook have great reach (from what I have heard) and are quite cheap.
- I would hazard a guess that most people are more likely to have notifications on for Facebook rather than e-mail.
Facebook is also probably not going to fail, preparing for this scenario is a nice thought exercise but at some point you have to have some faith in your suppliers. Same goes for Google (mail, docs), Dropbox (file history), Github (issue tracker, code reviews).