I disagree with the whole idea that the "Like-gate" is a problem. Fans of Facebook pages are not necessarily fans. They are people who have happened to click "l

I disagree with the whole idea that the "Like-gate" is a problem. Fans of Facebook pages are not necessarily fans. They are people who have happened to click "like" on the page at some point. There are various reasons why people do so: * perhaps they want to add their interests and likes to their profile, to show their friends what sort of music they listen to. * perhaps they want to increase the like count of an issue they care about at a "single click worth". * or perhaps they actually want to receive updates on the topic. None of these automatically mean that they want to receive updates on the topic so much, that it should be among the top-10 news items of the day compared to their friends' posts. A "like" is much more effortless and not comparable to signing up for an email newsletter. I don't see Facebook trying to make maximum money from pages with the newsfeed filtering, I see them trying to improve and spam-filter the content of the newsfeed for the benefit of the users. The "like-gate" scandal seems very similar to the SEO-community outrage every time Google changes their ranking algorithm - a community that forgets that if their pages got pushed down, someone else's probably more relevant page got pushed up.