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Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

Photo Editing Expert — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:10:13 -0000

I love the new look.

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

Tubtoes — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:17:43 -0000

I kinda like this addition

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susan.diana.harris — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:11:53 -0000

Does Facebook only allow Twitter feeds for personal accounts? How can businesses' Twitter posts feed into their business FB profile?

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James Carson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:46:43 -0000

Not sure about gaining extra traffic to pages because of the redesign. At SEGA our page had a record month during February, then as the pages were redesigned we saw drop offs by as much as 50%. The numbers clearly weren't good for us. However, we are getting used to the new features, and think in the long term we will see a big improvement.

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

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Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

EmailBusiness — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:21:49 -0000

I love the New Facbook Look!

Both from a marketing perspective and as an individual.
It's cleaner. The old Facebook looked choppy, almost like a cheap script you could buy
off of hotscripts.

I hope they tweek the new look even more.
There are some cool new feature now that they didn't have before.
I think any users who complain, are just doing so out of anger that they now have to get used to something new, just when they figured out how to use the old Facebook.

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Joyful Alternative — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:32:09 -0000

That sounds like the "sellers aside though" that's sent eBay into its downward spiral!

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willswords — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:54:56 -0000

Fortunately there are numerous Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox that let you hack out all the new garbage that comes through now on the homepage. For example: Facebook Purity http://userscripts.org/scri...

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

kate — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:31:38 -0000

Ditto, Julie. I don't care about the streaming feed, I care about a preponderonce of "little" things that changed for users that aren't so good. I go to my FB less now and am less active in general on it which means I'm not clicking through to anyone's pages and I'm not inviting any new friends. I enlisted about a fourth of my friends from the land of "what's Facebook?" before the redo, but since I'm contemplating other venues for this type of socializing, it'd be a waste of time to do that now. I DO like how the pages are done, but I just don't want to spend as much time on FB anymore.

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CraigS — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:09:16 -0000

Shame they had to change it.. at least give people the option you know..?

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King Khan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:57:45 -0000

Its not a site for brands, its for people who want to connect.

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thatkidrich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:39:21 -0000

get selective twitter app for fb. You can post your tweets by adding #fb at the end.

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jamesm1234 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:21:11 -0000

Facebook is a great feature. Its branding is very simple yet iconic, as you can tell what something is purely by associating a colour scheme, layout or type font.
A little SEO tip is to set up facebook accounts for all staff, and get them to join other groups and start placing back links on other groups on facebook, get talking to people and people will start clicking the links to leave blogs, etc on your page, or site. It does work.

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

tobo — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:53:11 -0000

you've noted one facet of the benefit provided by the new facebook.

i think, however, there's a lot more benefit than you are noting.

the internet is great for spreading ideas and now, with the new facebook, new ideas can spread about faster than they ever could. sure, there's money in it, but i'm grateful for that because if there wasn't, we wouldn't be able to spread ideas so fast.

i think it's great.

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marshal sandler — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:13:06 -0000

Twitter with it's addition of sponsored streams will leave a lot of people in the dust Faceook seems to take direction from old media types-

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marshal sandler — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:02:34 -0000

I really think Facebook is a playground not a medium to advertise, Twitter will now be creating custom streams-this will be a killer approach to marketing remember also the people who have invested in Twitter understand Internet marketing Facebook is sort an off shoot of old media filled with distracting applications that are cute bu have not monetised Face book

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

Lisa — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:05:34 -0000

I will block any page that I become a fan of that spams my newsfeed. I will make a point of NOT clicking on any fan spam - no matter how enticing...
Social media is about choice, and your right to exercise it...

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

Adam Ostrow — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:09:40 -0000

Facebook Pages have a much lower barrier to entry than building out your own app with FB Connect. Hence, I think we'll see a lot more Pages than Connect apps, though, certainly a combo of them would create quite the loop in terms of generating interaction on FB.

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hooman — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:57:29 -0000

Do you think that folks will start to drive people to pages OUTSIDE facebook that are enabled with FB Connect? I think the idea of streams is novel, but is it really the best thing for a brand to have their creative capacity limited by the functionality of a fan page. Don't have the answer, but am curious...

Re: You Might Not Love the New Facebook, But Brands Should

Wisewinston — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:54:53 -0000

I follow Mashable (and some of its writers) on Twitter and therefore don't follow Mashable on Facebook. What would be the point of doing both? I'd assume that people who use both sites will probably use Facebook to stay in touch with peripheral friends and use Twitter to follow brands/news sites. There are lots of people on FB but not Twitter and so they will continue to get their brand info from Facebook, I guess. That's just my opinion.

As for Facebook changes. C'mon people. Give it another few weeks and you won't even remember what it was like before. I've stopped using FB as much, but that's not because of the re-design. It's because my friends' updates are usually lame and boring. I prefer following experts in their field on Twitter. Kinda ironic.

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Andy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:45:19 -0000

As a page admin, I share your frustration (see my comment further down). If you haven't already, definitely make sure you report this bug to facebook so that they make this priority. There's a discussion thread and links to the bug report here: http://www.facebook.com/top...

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kittenheel — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:13 -0000

Exactly. So you get more traffic to your facebook page from pre-existing users. But the fact that "Jane doe joined mashable" no longer appears in the news feed really hinders the ability for the brand to be spread outside its present-day fans.

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Facebook User — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:10:14 -0000

I like the new facebook!

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Mike — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:57:31 -0000

Obviously a great idea in terms of bringing in revenue. Business will definitely love this, and they are the ones that pay for different services on Facebook, not the more than 60 million users.

Still, I can't stand the change. I go on Facebook now expecting it to look and function like Twitter and it's just so cluttered. When I want to promote something on either of these sites I just create a listing on http://ilist.com and iList does it for me. It's just a frustrating mess on the Facebook homepage, but the uprising won't do much to slow down the so-so decision making of this social media giant.

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Marito — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:37:50 -0000

It's not that much as the author says. It's a good idea through a business perspective but they should have set up filters so as not to be flooded with News from things we actually don't care. And also, the loss of knowing our friends became fan from other pages make them lose the virality.
As people say, It's easy to click the X button and so far I have been hiding all News from Pages. Facebook is for friends, I don't think people want to hear about business and other stuff. I hope they realize this and make a couple of filters so as we can at least manage how much we want from this pages in our feed.