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This could be more benign than the article makes it out to be. Growing a content business in 2021 requires you to understand Facebook's algorithms and what will

by madrox 5y ago

This could be more benign than the article makes it out to be. Growing a content business in 2021 requires you to understand Facebook's algorithms and what will get your post amplified. Instagram famously only shows your posts to 10% of your followers by default [1]. The trigger points for your post to reach wider require certain engagement quotas, and if you're designing your post to get more comments then it'll hit them faster. Often accounts do these kinds of posts because their profile is about selling a single thing (like a book they wrote) or are dropshipping and focused on the marketing side. The real thing they want to get in front of users is the link in their bio. I think the real issue here is that it's impossible to tell the benign from the malignant. Is that cute mom blog going to start hawking ivermectin? What is my comment revealing about me that I don't authorize? There's no Better Business Bureau for Facebook pages. Maybe there should be. 1. https://www.thelovelyescapist.com/2018-instagram-algorithm/ https://www.thelovelyescapist.com/2018-instagram-algorithm/

lotsofpulp 5y ago
What value does BBB bring to the world? Any “rating” organization whose value proposition is evaluating others and does not employ vast legions of laborers to continually test and retest their subjects is obviously a scam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau Not to mention the obvious conflict of interests when an organization gets paid by the test subjects to grade the test subjects.
- madrox 5y ago
  What you're asking is a whole other topic, and one I'm not familiar enough with to weigh in on. I don't have any data on how effective such an organization is...only its role, and I'm not aware of any organization filling that role for Facebook pages today...except maybe Facebook, which is obviously a problem for the same reasons you point out about the BBB because the incentives aren't quite there.

by madrox 5y ago

lotsofpulp 5y ago

What value does BBB bring to the world? Any “rating” organization whose value proposition is evaluating others and does not employ vast legions of laborers to continually test and retest their subjects is obviously a scam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Business_Bureau Not to mention the obvious conflict of interests when an organization gets paid by the test subjects to grade the test subjects.

madrox 5y ago
What you're asking is a whole other topic, and one I'm not familiar enough with to weigh in on. I don't have any data on how effective such an organization is...only its role, and I'm not aware of any organization filling that role for Facebook pages today...except maybe Facebook, which is obviously a problem for the same reasons you point out about the BBB because the incentives aren't quite there.