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Maybe we shouldn't be able to automate social media, but the problem is that this just means you need to hire people to do the automation manually... Which spa

Maybe we shouldn't be able to automate social media, but the problem is that this just means you need to hire people to do the automation manually... Which spammers and scammers may still do. All this does is make it harder for regular people to interact with facebook on their own terms.

vineyardmike 3y ago
Is this a thing? How often did people previously “automate” their own interaction with a Facebook property? I imagine <<1% of people moderate a Facebook group, and they may value automation. But that’s it?
- mathgladiator 3y ago
  It's probably exceptionally tiny, I managed FB's web proxy for chat, and I was upgrading the protocol and discovered two people who wrote their own clients. I had to cut them off just they were not polluting the data I was gathering for reliability.
- strongpigeon 3y ago
  Some companies whole business model is just that. See buffer.com. That being said, a lot of the stuff they do is now offered by Meta directly (e.g: scheduling post, responding to comments at scale)
marwis 3y ago
Before shutdown of Events API Facebook was a convenient hub for social events and parties. Shutting it down led to organizers no longer posting events to FB (I guess they were using some 3rd party platforms that cross-post to multiple sites) and just removed one of the few remaining reasons to use FB. This I imagine will have similar effect with some groups moving elsewhere (Instagram, Twitter?), just further shrinking userbase.