Or, Sponsored Stories are Bad News for Facebook Users
Recently, my Facebook reach has been rather down. What, I’m I suddenly not as interesting? Are my pictures not as good? My posts not as funny? Although Facebook doesn’t provide individual users with stats about their posts’ engagement and reach, I can tell you what my graph would look like – like a plane crashing from 30,000 feet.
I'm not a real active Facebook user, but even I have recently scratched my head at posts on my newsfeed from entities I've never liked or friended. Maggie has the answer - "sponsored stories," a newly implemented FB practice that allows pages to pay-for-"reach." And here we naively thought all posts were created equal - HA! Show 'em da money! - Morgan
I have come so close to just taking down my FB page. It’s a terrible time-sink, but I do hear from former students and I do see what’s going on with some friends and relatives, so I find myself whizzing by a lot of junk. But I still often think, maybe I’ll just take it down. I sure lived without it for a long time.
I guess the real reason it doesn’t trouble me a lot is that I don’t spend much time there, while I have been able to connect with old high school cronies, and certain groups and organizations I like to hear from. New blog posts get sent to FB, but I never looked deeply enough to try to track the results of that in the past, so I don’t know if the new pay-per-view system impacts it much or not…