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Re:I don’t understand how to use Facebook’s Sponsored Posts by bora on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @03:46PM (#4811239)
Re: your second paragraph, when you think about it, the FB mission of keeping you connected to your friends doesn't work because your distant friends remain distant and only closer friends show up in your feed. In my personal feed I keep seeing updates from the same 20 people over and over. I have no clue what the other 450 are up to unless I go to their pages.

If all I wanted from FB was a relationship with my closer friends, then Path is much nicer.

Our buddy Mark Cuban was at it again yesterday re: this. http://www.wired.com/business/2012/11/mark-cuban-facebook-ti...

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Re:I don’t understand how to use Facebook’s Sponsored Posts by EvanKelly on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @04:48PM (#4811527)
That's an excellent point. For a while I thought "Man, my new friends in this city sure do use Facebook a lot more than my other friends", but a quick glance at a distant friend's timeline shows that isn't the case.
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Re:I don’t understand how to use Facebook’s Sponsored Posts by dfxm12 on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @11:03PM (#4812701)
The problem is we'll never really know for sure. We don't know if our friends are just ignoring us or if they've even seen our posts. Edgerank is a good idea, when our friends/likes/subscribes get high, but if implemented incorrectly, you can end up missing a lot of updates that are relevant to you.
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Re:I don’t understand how to use Facebook’s Sponsored Posts by EvanKelly on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @11:42PM (#4812827)
It's a really hard problem to solve. I wish Facebook would let me choose certain people and say "Put everything this person/band/page posts into my newsfeed".
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