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Petition To Ask Facebook To Make Edgerank An Option (7 posts)

Topic tags: edgerank, Facebook

Louis Teoh said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
Hi everyone, Here’s an interesting UPDATE to share with you fellow SME members in the hope that we can all do something about what Hugh Briss of Social Identities has just set out to do. He has started a petition at change.org asking Facebook to make EdgeRank an option. You can read it (and sign it, if you’re so inclined)here => http://socialmediatoday.com/node/925966?utm_source=smt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&inf_contact_key=1b996abbac8c296cf1d313469824ea9eb49bc56c79c1f4779808eb38c8230bb
I’ve signed the petition.
Louis
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Scott Linklater said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
I have a huge amount of time for Hugh but he is up against it here.
My take on it is this:
Even if you say:
“I can decide what I want to see and what I don’t so let me control that”
the risk facebook takes letting you do that is that when it becomes a total pain and overwhelming, will you go back to the “controlled facebook system” and admit defeat or will you just leave facebook or lower the time you spend there?
Now you might know that you caused this yourself but across a billion users, it would be very damaging to facebook. People are not rational and would think, “this is too hard, I’m going somewhere else”
If you could see everything in your news feed, it would be flying along and you would struggle to keep up without getting rid of 80% of your liked pages and a bunch of friends too.
The other issue is it isn’t as profitable for facebook. They are a public company. Their obligation is to their shareholders. That’s the way it is!
Cheers
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Andrea Vahl said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
@louisteoh @scottlinklater I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. One thing that I’m wondering about the outrage about this is the real root of the problem. Is the problem that Facebook Reach has gone down and it’s a change from what they were providing.
Or is it that we can see how bad these numbers appear. Twitter doesn’t show me how many people actually see my Tweets. I imagine the number is something embarrassingly low. Google+ doesn’t show me how many people see my posts – again, given that people don’t log on to Google+ all the time, it’s probably low there too. I don’t think you can ever guarantee that 100% of the people see your posts – people don’t scroll all that far on their News Feed and if they did have everything in it, it would be more like Twitter where you would get too many posts. Not sure what a good solution is but I think Interest Lists are not a bad way to go (if all the posts would show up on an Interest List, guaranteed)
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Scott Linklater said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
It’s the same as when there is a spike in gas prices, People lose their you know what for a while and then it becomes the norm and they settle down.
@andrea-vahl You make a great point re Twitter and G+. No one knows so no one can complain.
The other point is half your fans aren’t even on facebook when you post so they were never going to see your update anyway and of the half that are on that day (50% log on every day) what percentage miss your post before it is too far down their feed to see? To them it’s as if you never posted and to you it’s as if they were never on.
So those two factors alone wipe out a huge number of your fans ability to see your updates.
Based on that, optimising when you post and how often could easily accommodate for whatever tweaking facebook have done.
Unless you are the perfect FB poster…….but there are few who could lay claim to that
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Dain Hanson said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
Personally I think the edgerank algorithm is what made Facebook so successful. Ya it needs some more work and it sucks that marketers are getting screwed getting rid of it or making it an option isn’t the solution. That would just invite more spam which isn’t good for anyone.
The “Show in Newsfeed” option is supposed to be used to uncheck if you don’t want to get any updates from that page, which has worked for me just fine. They used to have a “subscribe” option that to my knowledge let you see all posts by a page, but I think they may have done away with that, which I feel like would solve the problem for most. Uncheck “Show in Newsfeed” for those you don’t want to see and “Subscribe” to those you don’t want to miss anything.
This doesn’t solve anything for marketers but at least it gives the user a better experience, which we forget sometimes when we are in “How do I further my reach/Facebook Sucks” mode.
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Jenetta Penner said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
So here is your fb feed with no edgerank.. at least the pages
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Jenetta Penner said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
@dain-hanson
yes.. I just think there needs to be on opt in option.. that would guarantee you would see what you wanted..
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