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Businesses run based on numbers. If a Facebook ad converts at a profitable ROI, then many businesses will buy the ads no matter how poorly they have been treat
by the_economist 14y ago
Businesses run based on numbers. If a Facebook ad converts at a profitable ROI, then many businesses will buy the ads no matter how poorly they have been treated.
Users are different. If they feel slighted, they will disappear. Facebook is right to focus on the user experience at the expense of antagonizing advertisers.
Whether Facebook could have implemented this without pissing off so many people, now that is a different story.
- seeingfurther 14y agoThis exactly.
- jack-r-abbit 14y ago> Whether Facebook could have implemented this without pissing off so many people, now that is a different story. History seems to indicate that Facebook can NOT change a single thing without pissing off a lot of people. Every time they do a major update... the Internets go crazy. I've been guilty of that. I still hate Timeline... but I haven't left Facebook yet. :)
- nhangen 14y agoThis isn't true. The user experience is far worse now that they've monetized the news feed. I see far more ads than I used to, often for things I am uninterested in. The FB experience is getting worse by the day for users and advertisers.