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Facebook isn’t evil for blocking promotional Page posts
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Facebook’s latest algorithm tweak will hit businesses the hardest: Promotional, spammy Page posts will no longer surface on people’s newsfeeds. Other less ad-like posts from Pages will still show up.
Anything that could double as a promotion will be banished by the algorithmic gods of social war. As an example, Facebook included this image:
One example Facebook gave of a spammy Page post
Although the algorithm change might benefit users, who will see less annoying ads, it’s a blow for some businesses. Brands have spent time, resources, and money building out their Facebook following. As a result, the algorithm changes have been described as “shady,” “ridiculous,” and “pay-to-play.”
There’s an argument to be made that Facebook bait-and-switched companies, convincing them to invest in their Facebook pages without warning them they could lose their promotional power down the line. It doesn’t help the fact that Facebook benefits by restricting Page reach in this way…
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Who Do You Write For?
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I’ve been struggling with this one. “Who do you write for?” keeps getting tangled up with “who’s your audience?” They’re related, but they’re not the same. Who are you writing for before you have an audience out there? Let’s leave the out there audience aside for now. We’ll come back to it soon, I promise.
Aside: Yes, I do know that purists will insist on “Whom do you write for?” or “For whom do you write?” At the moment I’m not writing primarily for purists. Be warned.
So the other morning, while procrastinating warming up, I went over to Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog and found “When Words Stop” by Beth Taylor. Beth Taylor was writing for me, whether she knew it or not, so I had to write back:
Been there . . . For me writing is a conversation. If no one’s listening and (maybe more important) if no…
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