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- mickronson
- Rep: 118
Re: Facebook testing users pay $2 to promote updates
I'm hardly suprised (if it's true), but I'd have thought cashing in on all those ads and data mining would be enough. - guess not. Sad thing is though, there are plenty of idiots on there who will eat it up.
Re: Facebook testing users pay $2 to promote updates
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.I posted this story on my page just now informing my friends that I will remove ANY of them that do this. What in the hell could you possibly need to tell everyone that's so important you'd pay $2 to do so.
Fucking rights. Anyone who is that narcissistic that they're willing to pay to have their updates promoted more frequently deserves to be removed from not only your facebook friends list but from your life friends list as well. And to those who will use it for promoting their business on facebook they'll get deletd as well me. I don't mind the occasional plug for something but the people who do nothng but promote their businesses on facebook get deleted right away.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Facebook testing users pay $2 to promote updates
The problem is if too many people are using that feature..it will warp your newsfeed results...at the moment you can set it to most recent (which I'm not sure isn't also inaccurate somehow) or "top" results that get raised in priority by the number of comments and so on....but if people start making their post sit longer at the top regardless of age or relevance to you then it starts to lessen the "facebook experience" (for want of a less formal sounding description!)
- metallex78
- Rep: 194
Re: Facebook testing users pay $2 to promote updates
I think this is more a business tool, for people who have fb business pages set up, and can use this feature to make sure their posts get seen perhaps?
It's definitely stupid to use for regular use.
- Communist China
- Rep: 130
Re: Facebook testing users pay $2 to promote updates
Seems like a fine idea to me - everyone wants to avoid Facebook charging for general usage, so this allows those most willing to pay to contribute without punishing those of us that would consider leaving. It doesn't make any of its current features off-limits, it just lets people pay their way to the top of my news feed. Google does the same thing.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Facebook testing users pay $2 to promote updates
Yeah but the problem comes for people like me who use FB to keep in touch with family and friends without having to interrupt their busy lives with phonecalls and stuff.
I like to log on and see what's going on for them, then there's a bit of marketing but it's all stuff I already like - such as tours from bands and so on.
For example I have a couple of people on here added so we can chat about GNR, maybe organise meet ups when we're in each other's cities and stuff. So then if they start using this feature to pimp out an insurance business or something...it totally destroys my newsfeed.....
