The Fraud In Facebook "Liking" That Gets People Thousands Of Worthless "Likes"
Sam Juno (@marscrumbs) sent me to a fascinating video by Youtube science channel Veritasium showing me the fraud in Facebook "liking" that gets people and businesses (and even fake businesses) thousands of unengaged likers:
The problem is, publishers and others make decisions whether to buy a book based on things like "platform." I'm not going to do dishonest things to get Facebook likes (and I really just post links to my blog items there) but I may be competing against authors who do.
More, also from Sam Juno -- how new Facebook settings are limiting what you see in your newsfeed.
The "New Facebook" has a newsfeed setting that, by default, is automatically set to ONLY SHOW POSTS FROM PEOPLE WHO YOU'VE RECENTLY INTERACTED WITH OR INTERACTED WITH THE MOST (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile).HERE'S THE FIX:
Scroll down to the bottom of the Newsfeed on your HOME page and click on"Edit Options". In the popup, click on the dropdown menu next to 'Show posts from:' and select "All Of Your Friends and Pages" and then clickSave.
Apparently, it takes forever to get to the end. Annoying. If anyone has another way, please let me know.
More facebook options that they probably won't honor! One of my biggest gripes with facebook was how you could tell it what you wanted to see and didn't want to see and they took that as mere suggestions to plug into their algorithm for determine what you WILL see.
But, it was their privacy policy changes that finally got me to disable my account last August. Now I use Red Matrix.
Dwatney at April 27, 2014 8:05 AM
Facebook Purity http://www.fbpurity.com lets you override Facebook's decisions on what to show you, among many other features.
Bradley J. Fikes at April 27, 2014 9:14 AM
Ugh, Firefox. Chrome needs to get something like that.
Daghain at April 27, 2014 10:32 AM
And I still think FB is totally useless and proves my decision to never set up a FB account was the right decision.
Jim P. at April 27, 2014 10:55 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/04/27/the_fraud_in_fa.html#comment-4547515">comment from Bradley J. FikesThanks, Bradley -- and Jim P., authors need to be on Facebook.
Amy Alkon
at April 27, 2014 11:36 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/04/27/the_fraud_in_fa.html#comment-4547540">comment from Bradley J. FikesBradley J. Fikes, can you explain how to use it to fix the newsfeed so I can see all posts (of anyone I'm friends with)? (I installed FBPurity.)
Amy Alkon
at April 27, 2014 11:45 AM
I just scrolled back to April 16th and there is no popup. Just a message, "There are no more posts to show right now."
Steamer at April 27, 2014 12:24 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/04/27/the_fraud_in_fa.html#comment-4547942">comment from SteamerUgh, how frustrating, Steamer. Sorry. If anyone can figure this out, please post. I downloaded FB Purity and it has some good features. Goes right into your FB software upon install (in your browser).
Amy Alkon
at April 27, 2014 1:54 PM
Facebook fraud is outdone by Amazon fraud, IMO. These days planted Amazon book reviews are just a routine branch of marketing. Some that I've see are so blatant they make me first smile, then grind my teeth.
Stu Harris at April 28, 2014 12:14 PM
Apparently, according to Time, if you have a FB page of any sort (a page that you "like" as opposed to a friend, they are working to get it down to 1-2% of your audience seeing your post in your feed. They are pushing for people to "boost posts", their paid advertising option.
http://time.com/34025/the-free-marketing-gravy-train-is-over-on-facebook/
NikkiG at April 29, 2014 12:58 AM
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