im way over  10% on  most posts…….i can still easily get to  30% of people seeing this…..  if i dont use pictures…..

@sheridanmills so i think  your  numbers are  way off….but i know  they are floating around….

still i  am also having a  terrible  drop in  views  and  dont    know whats the  best way to deal with it….hoping  for  some  good plots   to   come  into the  conversations….

@sheridanmills

this post has a good graph that show about what you may max out at as far as view vs fan #’s http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/how-massive-changes-to-newsfeed-are-screwing-business-pages-on-facebook/

@jenettapenner @annfurnivall

Yep we’re screwed. Sorry for profanities but this is the bottom line here esp reading that article.

That article by the way was the best one I have read by FAR, most honest and respectable reflection on the current situation thank you so much for sharing, thank goodness for people like you. Still, the news in this article is very disheartening.

If I knew this was the way of the future for FB I wouldn’t have spent literally hundreds and thousands of hours developing both my, and other arts organisations/businesses pages, I would have just made them a website.

FB has no future at this point for business pages, I can’t wait for a competitor to come into the market i will even go and work for them to develop their software so we can blow FB out of this market. I HATE them right now, and challenge anyone on this. You can’t just change the rules of the game to suit and totally screw over all of your customer base, over, and over. 

I’ve spent, probably like everyone here, at least 2-3 hours a day every day for the last 2 years on this, working, building, changing, adapting to FB’s new rules as they have changed and now this. That is at over 100 hours a week – over 10,000 hours I have spent on the software, way more than any any other only for FB to make these changes and basically screw us over to get more money for themselves (like they need it).

If I were being paid $20 an hour that’s $200,000 dollars worth of work right there.

x the billions of people out there like us that have done this kind of work, spent this time, invested in this for the benefit of others, brands, businesses, projects etc.

Argh.

Thank you for great article again though.

And btw, I have over 7500 followers on my page (one of them alone).

Then there are the others.

@jenettapenner

What do you propose? Starting fresh how exactly?

We;ve already invested thousands of hours of our time and money, we have an established audience and fan base following us (or trying to) who are now getting lost in the changes that FB have implemented.

I’m not paying money to support people on FB – which is what my page does. 

The only 2 options I can see here to skip around this issue are:

Set up a personal page and link to your business page (even though FB community standards do not allow this) as your personal page DOES see and interact with all of your friends and can direct them to the business page.

Set up a website and forget about FB limiting your time spent on the face and dedicating that time to website content management, analytics, mail-outs, and quality time with your dog. I have a Whippet.

All I got.

@sheridanmills I’m curious here and gotta ask: you say you manage different FB pages, so I presume it’s for different clients or brands. Do these brands have a blog? Do they actively send out newsletters to a growing database?

The reason I ask is because I’ve been saying for the past 2-3 years that brands ought to invest on their owned media before they do so on shared meda, i.e. Facebook. Or at least evenly. Yet, because of the FB buzz, many seem to ditch blogs, newsletters, onsite FAQ or other owned media just to be on the social media bandwagon. And we’re seeing how this is backfiring these days with EdgeRank doing its own thing…

As I said, just curious…

i hate to be the oddball  …but i  just got a connection over  40%  on a text post  on my facebook page….. so even tho its   changed and  getting  harder  its  not  totally  dire….i doubt if my experience is  totally unique…im not  sure what happened on the post…i asked  for likes…and  got  100  and  quite a  bit of  conversation…i hate asking for likes…also i  told them where to go to see  my  album post….. a couple  of   fans  said  they hadnt heard form me for a long time…ikkk

my post was  talking about the   fb  change and my   views were reported  at   1800  with a   teeny amount viral  and  none paid out of  3700  fans………so maybe   a page like mine, mainly organic, and   grown out of  known people   can  be  very different  than the  2 %–10%   reach  you are talking about…..those numbers  arent  everyones…….or maybe the social media arent   considering    places like mine….???? brick and mortar, not huge…. organic…there are tons of us out here using  facebook,,,outside the   online  bubble…

if i  could only get  10%  i would have to  give it up…. 

@annfurnivall 

I think we are talking about different things here.

Just to clarify, I’m not talking about the percentages you see on individual posts you have on your wall or any other, I am talking about the general figure being put out there at the moment of only 10% if your like base actually seeing your posts – all together – now with the recent FB changes. 

I have seen people posting a message over and over saying that only 10% of people are now seeing your fan page (without paying for advertising etc) and that you must ‘get them to click the add to special interested button’ under the like button on any page. 

Make sense?

I have noticed the difference and am now basically about to give up as no one is seeing my page despite posting quality posts, different times of the day, generating discussion, etc, etc, etc.

 @fredericgonzalo

Great points, right now I can see nothing that combats this. Hence, my woe is me and gloomy gloom realisations above.