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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by bazeblackwood on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:18PM (#32829018)
Bad strategy, imo. Sounds like they should have tried to answer why people used their product in the first place. “A competitor does it” isn’t a valid excuse—its like suggesting The French Laundry switch to fast food because McDonald’s is a competitor.
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by fnordpiglet on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:24PM (#32829081)
I think your analogy is too generous. It’s more like putting an engine on your stapler because people buy cars more often than staplers at a higher margin despite having a monopoly in the stapler market.
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by kolbe on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:28PM (#32829122)
They also need to be honest with themselves about whether TikTok is a competitor, or if TT has simply won a completely different business that happens to take customers' finite resources (time) from Facebook.
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by tofflos on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:45PM (#32829311)
I think it's pretty cleat cut. They're competing attention farms. How we the product perceive them doesn't matter.
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by OJFord on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:42PM (#32829271)
When you're an ads-funded social media company, is there a difference?
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by mingfli on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:30PM (#32829146)
The French Laundry is a very niche product, which Facebook is not. I think a more apt analogy is suggesting McDonald's to include more "healthy" options or a coffee bar because the competitors do it and it's a successful business strategy.
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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by rightbyte on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @03:40PM (#32829259)
More liking pushing "healthy" options in your face in the menu and hiding the BigMac & Co in some obscure small print somewhere.

"Do you want plus sized carrots with your meal?"

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Re:FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts by mingfli on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @05:05PM (#32830175)
Not saying either is a good strategy, I'd rather see more posts from my friends than random pages. Just pointing out the analogy.
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