<story><title>Facebook, I want my friends back</title><url>http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ry0ohki</author><text>So what? Annoying pages can get un-liked, and the problem will work itself out.  But if someone is a &quot;Fan&quot; of the brand and wants to see all of their 15 posts in a day, it&apos;s frustrating they can&apos;t.  The default in Facebook is always &quot;Most Popular&quot;, and even when I change it to &quot;Most Recent&quot; (to see the long tail of my friends activities, since I don&apos;t trust Facebook), Facebook always sets it back.</text></item><item><author>chaz</author><text>If you&apos;re posting 10-16 posts a day and you forcibly put each of these into 100% of your fans, you&apos;re going to shrink your base. If you did that to me, I&apos;m going to hide or Unlike your page. If you emailed me those posts, I&apos;d be hitting unsubscribe in half a day. The Facebook News Feed isn&apos;t an RSS reader, and the Like button isn&apos;t Subscribe.&lt;p&gt;I would suggest just posting once a day, and using the Promoted Posts for the occasional big news that you want to make sure everyone reads.&lt;p&gt;Facebook pages isn&apos;t a panacea for brands or publishers -- not by a long shot. That panacea is one of those Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chaz</author><text>The author is expecting that all 54k fans should see the page&apos;s posts, and that fewer impressions are feeling like extortion. That expectation is both incorrect and unreasonable. There will always be users who don&apos;t log in each day. Even if FB queued up the News Feed to show the post, the impression will never be driven because they haven&apos;t scrolled far enough down.&lt;p&gt;I do agree about the sort preference -- I wish it was sticky.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook, I want my friends back</title><url>http://dangerousminds.net/comments/facebook_i_want_my_friends_back</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ry0ohki</author><text>So what? Annoying pages can get un-liked, and the problem will work itself out.  But if someone is a &quot;Fan&quot; of the brand and wants to see all of their 15 posts in a day, it&apos;s frustrating they can&apos;t.  The default in Facebook is always &quot;Most Popular&quot;, and even when I change it to &quot;Most Recent&quot; (to see the long tail of my friends activities, since I don&apos;t trust Facebook), Facebook always sets it back.</text></item><item><author>chaz</author><text>If you&apos;re posting 10-16 posts a day and you forcibly put each of these into 100% of your fans, you&apos;re going to shrink your base. If you did that to me, I&apos;m going to hide or Unlike your page. If you emailed me those posts, I&apos;d be hitting unsubscribe in half a day. The Facebook News Feed isn&apos;t an RSS reader, and the Like button isn&apos;t Subscribe.&lt;p&gt;I would suggest just posting once a day, and using the Promoted Posts for the occasional big news that you want to make sure everyone reads.&lt;p&gt;Facebook pages isn&apos;t a panacea for brands or publishers -- not by a long shot. That panacea is one of those Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scott_s</author><text>As a rule, I don&apos;t &quot;Like&quot; sites, but I was unaware that it actually meant &quot;subscribe me to this.&quot;</text></comment>