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I don't see this is completely weird. If I was designing the news feed, I would give way more importance to personal posts (especially photos) than non personal

by nyrulez 13y ago

I don't see this is completely weird. If I was designing the news feed, I would give way more importance to personal posts (especially photos) than non personal posts, as I would like to preserve the personal nature of Facebook and not pollute it with non-personal info. However, if a business (a non personal entity) wants to gain entry (and potentially pollute the experience to some extent), there is a price they have to pay. And that constitutes facebook's business model. The fact that they introduced "Free" business pages which allowed free entry to people's news feeds before ads has skewed the perception of their intentions. But if I were to design it from scratch today, my design would probably be somewhat similar.

johnvschmitt 13y ago
Good point. Yes, let's prioritize personal things on a personal platform. However, ~30% of the "top stories" in my newsfeed (anecdotal of course) are public URL's that my friends share. And, those don't look like ads or promoted posts, but they sure could be! That said, in the past, we'd promote a business by trying to get email signups, then trickle monthly updates to our users to engage them more. (That still works!) Now, email is seen as "unsexy" & we're told to go social to get viral, & make everything have a Facebook share (+pinterest/etc). That's just not as effective as email, sorry. I just wanted to share my experience about what works best for startups.