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Re:How Facebook Gets Away With Being Broken On Purpose by RestlessMind on Thursday March 07, 2013 @10:54AM (#5338283)
You are correct. But then, how does it help me when my feed shows posts just because someone paid Facebook to promote those posts? If a post is going to create bad experience for me, it will be a bad experience irrespective of whether its paid or free.
Re:How Facebook Gets Away With Being Broken On Purpose by brazzy on Saturday March 09, 2013 @11:13AM (#5348742)
The thing is: there's going to be a lot fewer such bad experiences when they cost the person wanting you to have them money. And it may provide an incentive to make promoted content a less bad experience, because in order to maximize revenue, Facebook had to balance the price of promoted content with its acceptance by users: content that is a better experience will cost less to promote because more of it can be shown to users before they get annoyed and leave Facebook.