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I had something like this happen in 2012, and by posting it on HackerNews, I had a bunch of Facebook people replying - and fixing it. I was simply running a fan
by veb 5y ago
I had something like this happen in 2012, and by posting it on HackerNews, I had a bunch of Facebook people replying - and fixing it. I was simply running a fan page, but when someone else (the official page I think) came into existence, it took all my audience and ported them over to the new one without warning.
I think it had like 300,000 likes roughly. I believe I was one of the few to also manage to monetise a Facebook page way back then using a new startup nobody had ever heard of (at the time) - Teespring! (now Spring, and a YC company to boot). Fun times, but teeth-clenching when Facebook decides to do whatever Facebook decides to do.
- reaperducer 5y agoby posting it on HackerNews, I had a bunch of Facebook people replying Not a lot of Facebook people on HN these days. Or at least they don't reveal it. Apple people were notorious for being on HN, and never revealing who they were. After a while, the Facebook people all went silent. Then most of the Google people, though there are still a few here and there that will let you know. It's like the FAANG employees all got the same memo about not revealing who they are. Or they got tired of trying to be helpful to only receive hundreds of off-topic replies from people grinding axes.
- veb 5y agoI can't blame them, you see replies like "how do you feel working for such an amoral unethical company" and you start to understand why they don't like to reveal it anymore.
- Noumenon72 5y agoDid they go to some cool new site we can't get into?
- suslik 5y agoI would assume it is pretty standard. I work for a non-FAANG very well known company, and its requirements for a social media post that mentions the company name are so strict it is just easier for me not to name it. The formal justification for that is that the definition of advertising can widely differ between countries - that can include social media posts by employees; and given that advertising itself is in many cases strictly regulated, certain annoying precautions should be taken. Additionally, FAANG already gets a bad rep on multiple fronts; preventing employees from releasing their dirty laundry (and it can safely be assumed to be exceptionally dirty) is in their interests.