Pay FB to promote your posts to your 'friends'

[KmH]

It pays to advertise?:

Facebook will charge to 'promote' user posts: Associated Press Business News - MSN Money

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Wait, Face Book, Face Boohhk... Isn't that the site where stocks have dropped at terminal velocity from IPO? Yeah, they really know what they're doing.

http://investing.money.msn.com/inve...Line&scale=Auto&comparelist=$indu,$compx,$inx

Newsfeed is already algorithmically convoluted to the point where most of your friends don't see your posts, and you never see most of theirs, unless you interact with them regularly. It's always been an extreme annoyance to me, that an algorithm will choose what I see and what I don't, versus leaving that to me. Now they want to charge for post visibility? Wow!

Facebook has never been "free" as they claim, and never will be free. It's a money grab from a company that is flailing in the market.

 

[bentcountershaft]

Yep, pretty much. Because of their system I see every time people I never talk to guess whatever song on whatever game but I miss out when a buddy posts the funeral arrangements for his mom.

 

[jamesbjenkins]

If my stock was tanking as badly as theirs, I'd be scrambling for new revenue streams just as desperately as they are.