Despite the media frenzy over Facebook’s impending IPO, all isn’t 100% rosy for Facebook. Two things I’ve recently read highlight what I consider to be pretty big fails on Facebook’s part, and, were I considering investing in Facebook (which I never in a million years would do), would give me pause: Social Readers are collapsing. Wow, “frictionless […]
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Biggest Mistake My Ass–and Other Facebook News
I know I already blogged about this, but I couldn’t help but smart when I saw this headline about the Biggest Facebook posting mistake you can make. (With all due respect to Brian Carter, who I know and like, and who happens to be super smart in all things Facebook…but I remain unconvinced about the […]
Do the Benefits of Using a 3rd Party API to Post to Facebook Outweigh the Cons?
Photo by katerha I keep reading posts about how you shouldn’t post to Facebook using a 3rd party APIs because it kills your EdgeRank. Supposedly Facebook penalizes 3rd party APIs’ EdgeRank (the “secret sauce” that determines how often your Page’s updates show up in users’ news feeds) and collapses 3rd party API updates. While I’m […]
Facebook Blocks Page Admins from Posting Legit Links
I’ve blogged before about why Facebook will never replace your website, but in case you’re still thinking I’m full of it and using Facebook as your corporate website is a good idea, allow me to share yet another reason giving a third party control over what/how you post online is a bad idea. This afternoon […]
Upcoming Facebook Page Commenting Changes
Facebook recently gave Page admins some cool tools and abilities. So of course, just as Big Brother giveth, he also taketh away….and apparently Facebook is getting ready to take something potentially major away from Page admins: the ability to disable the comment feature on Pages. Apparently, in the next few weeks Facebook will be announcing […]
Five Reasons Why Facebook Will Never Replace Your Website
(I wrote this for Socialfishing, but given my recent bloggers block, I’m reposting it here.) Today someone said something which still has me reeling hours later: “Facebook will eventually replace websites.” Was this person the first to ever have said it? Surely not. But it was the first time I’ve ever heard an actual person […]
Why Facebook Groups are Killing my Blog
Wow, long time no blog (or at least it feels like it to me). I’ve missed it. Well, sort of. What’s been keeping me away, you ask? Several things: First, my Macbook wasn’t working right. I’m embarrassed to admit how many computers there are in my house but here goes: 2 desktops, 3 laptops (not […]
Why Associations Should Avoid Facebook’s New “Tell Your Fans” Feature
On December 1, Inside Facebook announced a new tool available to some Facebook Page admins called “Tell Your Fans.” The tool allows ““admins of any new or smaller Pages” (wording apparently Facebook’s, although the link to Facebook’s documentation about “Tell Your Fans” seems to be inactive now and I can’t find anything in Facebook help […]
Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook with safego
If you read this blog you know that, while I acknowledge Facebook can be a valuable business tool, I have have, at best, a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I love how easy Facebook makes it to see what’s going on in friend’s lives, but I hate their continual “whoops, we didn’t mean to…” attitude. As […]
Why I Will Never, Ever Use Facebook Places
It’s simple: because I hate how much of my life Facebook already owns and has control over. Facebook is now worth $33 BILLION–all because chumps like me are willing to share their lives with the world and Facebook gets to sell us out. Why the hell am I going to give them one more piece […]