Facebook Scare Tactics

Facebook’s Video Censorship

 

Video Creation

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Not all users are happy about Facebook’s censorship methods: showing content only based on one’s connections.  Now they are extending this to video too…

Facebook Zero (a platform update) has brought new changes to the very core of how we understand the place of videos in Facebook’s context.  As Facebook begins showing content based on people’s connections and that content’s ability to spark interactions, users will see more content from friends and less content from companies.
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Examples include:

  • More content from friends and family
  • Posts from friends and family that seek advice or recommendations
  • News articles or videos that prompt people to discuss and interact

Video is seen as passive because it doesn’t spark as many conversations as other types of content; thus it will be seen less frequently in people’s feeds.  It means that you’ll have to step up your business video because the competition among companies will become far more fierce.  Facebook’s advice on what you can do to stand out:

“Page (business) posts and videos that generate conversation between people will show higher in News Feed.  For example, live videos often lead to discussion among viewers on Facebook – in fact, live videos on average get six times as many interactions as regular videos.  Many creators who post videos on Facebook prompt discussion among their followers, as do posts from celebrities.  In Groups, people often interact around public content.  Local businesses connect with their communities by posting relevant updates and creating events.  And news can help start conversations on important issues.”
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Similar Advice Comes from SocialMediaExaminer.com: “Choose video types that generate Facebook engagement, such as:

  • Live videos – which are watched three times longer and commended on ten times more than any other videos
  • Educational videos – which explain problems and concepts most often experienced by people in your field.
  • Company Story videos – which could show the daily “behind the scenes” and daily tasks in your company to which your audience can relate.
  • How-to videos that teach viewers step-by-step how to solve very specific problems are some of the most sought-after on any platform.”

“In one sentence: Tell a story in your videos, keep them short and open with a bang to spark interest. All these tips are valid for any video and any platform where it is shown.”

“To market, your videos successfully, create compelling content, not matter if you produce a book trailer, an instructional video, a short movie video or to market your products as an entrepreneur.  Everything you can do with your video and how to market your video should encourage your viewers:

  • First of all, to find the video
  • They must happily be watching it to the end
  • Viewers subscribe to the channel, “Like”, post a comment, and recommend the video via their social media accounts

Only when all these steps play together, you will have a chance to build a follower-ship of your digital content.”

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How Facebook Spies on YOU

New-York

 

Sharing Buttons and How Facebook el al Can Spy on You

Nate Hofelder from Digital Reader commented:
“The NYTimes published a story that explained just why Facebook was so good at knowing what you bought on Amazon and how Amazon knew all your FB friends. It turns out that Facebook has been illegally sharing your data with a whole bunch of companies.

For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed. They were effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews.

The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times.  The records, generated in 2017 by the company’s internal system for tracking partnerships, provides the most complete picture yet of Facebook’s social network’s data-sharing practices.

They also underscore how personal data has become the most prized commodity of the digital age, traded on a vast scale by some of the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The social network allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consentthe records show!

Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.

Ever Wondered How Amazon Knows Your Friends?
The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and contact information through their friends, and it let Yahoo view streams of friends’ posts as recently as this summer, despite public statements that it had stopped that type of sharing years earlier.”

Read more of these shocking news in Nate Hofelders article:

Facebook Helped Other Tech Companies (Such as Amazon) Spy On You Better

5 Problems with Facebook for Writers

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Multiple book author Randy Ross explains in one of his latest blogs: ”Recent changes to Facebook make the social media site even less useful to writers looking to promote their work for free. His fantastic blog article includes an overview of the changes, plus some tips on how to use them to your advantage. 

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Facebook

Facebook-Logout by Ivo Quartiroli

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Recent Developments on Facebook that Affect Writers
1) It’s Harder to Get Your Posts Under the Noses of Your Readers

“Most of your friends, fans, and readers see your Facebook posts in their Newsfeeds. Facebook has been restricting what appears in Newsfeeds (censoring?).  Posts from pages, such as your Author or your Book pages, may not show up at all!!!”
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In one of his earlier posts he explains the difference between a personal Facebook page and a Fan Page (or author page) in detail:  ”A Fan Page is supposed to offer several advantages over the standard personal Profile page, including:

  • Size: A Personal Page is limited to 5,000 Friends, while a Fan Page doesn’t have this limit.
  • Analytics: A Fan Page offers basic tools for analyzing your audience. If for example an agent or a publisher asks about my audience, I could quote these stats and appear knowledgeable.
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Limitations of Fan Pages
“You can’t reach all your Fans.  Facebook only allows you to reach a small portion of your hard-earned Fans — unless you pay.  Although I now have more than 2,000 Fans, Facebook will only allow me to reach about 200 of them with my posts — unless I pay $20.”

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Read more about limitations on Facebook in these great blog posts by Randy Ross. He is really extremely knowledgeable about Facebook and describes in detail how Facebook uses “Scare Tactics” to keep Mobile users from seeing links that you post.  He promises: “Next week’s post will focus on free tips and tricks for getting what you can, out of Facebook.”
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My advise:
Use Google+ to post your content, no limitations there, and you can connect directly with Twitter, so every post from Google+ shows automatically up on Twitter, which saves you lots of time and your content will you get a fantastic ranking in Google’s Search Engines – and more exposure for all of your books.

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