Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by tabletiptop on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:17PM (#16660384)

Are you referring to Facebook like pages? They've been essentially pointless for a while now, since you only get onto your followers feeds if you "boost" a post, money that for a "poor" or "just starting up" new venture is better spent elsewhere.

What they did was genius - encourage everyone to make their Facebook following central to their online marketing strategy, then lock them out unless they cough up.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by em3rgent0rdr on Friday March 23, 2018 @01:38PM (#16660591)

> since you only get onto your followers feeds if you "boost" a post,

Actually most people and new ventures on Facebook get plenty of buzz without paying a cent. This is done by relying on your friends and getting happy customers to repost stuff from your page, thereby reaching new audiences organically.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by matwood on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:39PM (#16661272)

I've been told by people who do this sort of thing that an algorithm change in the last 6 mos. or so has made organic buzz much harder to get going on FB without paying.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by em3rgent0rdr on Friday March 23, 2018 @03:00PM (#16661491)

To a small extent. Yes, they make you pay to "promote" a post higher in a user's timeline who simply liked your page.

But I'm talking more about organic buzz, whereby for instance your friend shares something from a page or talks favorably about it. There is no option to pay to promote those shared posts. The priority of those shared post depends more on how good of a relationship you have with your friend and how much engagement facebook thinks it will get form it.

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