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Facebook Frolics 2

Ari Kohen thinks he is on the wrong end of the algorithm (which is in no way related to that other Al, Gore). He reports that Facebook has informed him that, if he greases the right palms, this can be remedied.

Now, however, Facebook shows my post to somewhere between 20-50 people when I post it. If none of them quickly Like it, share it, or comment on it, it basically goes away forever. And then, of course, Facebook offers me the option of paying so that they’ll show it to more people after they prevented those same people from seeing it when I first posted it.

His fallacy is this: if someone is truly interested in what you have to say on the Zuckerborg (or anywhere else, for that matter), they will seek you out, not wait for you to appear, though I really can’t argue with what he says next . . .

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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    May 20, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    It’s accurate. Facebook does throttle your posts, not that it actually matters to me. Another valid assertion is that the image of popularity influences what people will read and where they read it.
    There’s much less searching out for quality. And it’s because of the environment Google has made. It’s the top half of the first page of results or nothing, essentially. You really think two newspapers, the Huffington Post, Wikipedia, Buzzfeed, Business Insider etc have the corner on quality in -everything- they publish? Rhetorical. It’s search-poisoning (SEO), publishing as spamming and clickbait that determine the lion’s share of what people actually choose to “search out.” The Internet’s front page is Reddit? The best writers are on Medium? ORLY? How on earth would one get the impression anything of this is about quality.

     
  2. Frank

    May 20, 2014 at 4:08 pm

    The National Inquirer + SEO = Today’s World Wide Web

    I have found that RSS is my friend for keeping up with persons and opinions that matter.