What Happens When You See More Updates from Friends

An ongoing battle in social media is how to attract more attention without getting yourself blocked, banned or discredited.  Well, it would seem that facebook has been doing most of the work for us by telling its users what it wants them to see. 

And really doing a poor job at that.

its a known fact that posting anything to a fan page on facebook will reach about 15%-25% of their total audience and that you will often never see anything your friends post unless you actually visit their page.  It would seem that lately those numbers have gone down and I suspect this recent update is part of the reason.

Over time, we noticed that this effect wasn't true for text status updates from Pages. As a result, the latest update to News Feed ranking treats text status updates from Pages as a different category to text status updates from friends. We are learning that posts from Pages behave differently to posts from friends and we are working to improve our ranking algorithms so that we do a better job of differentiating between the two types.

There is ways to influence the numbers in your favor by "boosting" a post.  This costs money and much like gambling you are not guaranteed to have any positive repercussions from it.

Eventually that will change, and until then you might as well save your money rather than spending it on a free service.

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