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Yup, it has become staggering. I frequently get notifications on my personal page to say my business page has a notification. That notification turns out be to

by grecy 8y ago

Yup, it has become staggering. I frequently get notifications on my personal page to say my business page has a notification. That notification turns out be to "Your users have not heard from you in a while, write a post". I get this all the time, even when I have written a post within the last five hours. I would say on average I get 5 notifications per day that are utterly useless.

nikkwong 8y ago
This x100. Totally mirrors the sentiment in my sibling comment. Somewhere along the line they lost sight of creating an experience and each facebook product became focused on improving their metrics and notifications became the weapon of choice. They so obviously need to reign in all of these different teams, reduce clutter, and get back to basics - starting with a good user experience.
chimprich 8y ago
The page notifications are infuriating. I'm a co-owner of my mother's business page (barely a business really, almost more of a hobby). She can barely use Facebook and just uses the page for basic communication with a few dozen people but she/we are constantly bombarded by notifications about HOW MANY USERS we could reach AND WHY DON'T YOU BOOST THIS POST. Hey, your customers haven't heard from Facebook in 10 minutes! Why don't you give them another notification!?
- grecy 8y ago
  haha, I know the feeling. Every single post I make "Performs better than 95% of posts on my page" ... "Click here to boost NOW!". Ugh.
prolepunk 8y ago
Yep, I got so annoyed I was compelled write blog post about it, documenting the ways facebook is being transparently manipulative. https://avolkov.github.io/fear-of-missing-out-as-a-business-model-for-facebook.html https://avolkov.github.io/fear-of-missing-out-as-a-business-...
thorwasdfasdf 8y ago
ha aha. seems like all those PMs and mountains of engineers Facebook/linkedIn is hiring aren't helping their product much. They've got money to burn, so I don't think this is going to change anytime soon.

by grecy 8y ago

nikkwong 8y ago

This x100. Totally mirrors the sentiment in my sibling comment. Somewhere along the line they lost sight of creating an experience and each facebook product became focused on improving their metrics and notifications became the weapon of choice. They so obviously need to reign in all of these different teams, reduce clutter, and get back to basics - starting with a good user experience.

chimprich 8y ago

The page notifications are infuriating. I'm a co-owner of my mother's business page (barely a business really, almost more of a hobby). She can barely use Facebook and just uses the page for basic communication with a few dozen people but she/we are constantly bombarded by notifications about HOW MANY USERS we could reach AND WHY DON'T YOU BOOST THIS POST. Hey, your customers haven't heard from Facebook in 10 minutes! Why don't you give them another notification!?

grecy 8y ago
haha, I know the feeling. Every single post I make "Performs better than 95% of posts on my page" ... "Click here to boost NOW!". Ugh.

prolepunk 8y ago

Yep, I got so annoyed I was compelled write blog post about it, documenting the ways facebook is being transparently manipulative. https://avolkov.github.io/fear-of-missing-out-as-a-business-model-for-facebook.html https://avolkov.github.io/fear-of-missing-out-as-a-business-...

thorwasdfasdf 8y ago

ha aha. seems like all those PMs and mountains of engineers Facebook/linkedIn is hiring aren't helping their product much. They've got money to burn, so I don't think this is going to change anytime soon.