chrisbrogan.com - Latest Comments in Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

anabolic steroids — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:03:02 -0000

You most definitely have made this blog into something that’s eye opening and important.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

buy winstrol — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:56:26 -0000

Keep up the great work, its hard to find good ones. I have added to my favorites. Thank You.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Kenbrewer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:44:36 -0000

You need to take a second step to delete the request, which I find
annoying. Why should someone who wants to be my friend see my page
without my permission - especially when Facebook doesn't allow me to
see any information at all from the requester. Doesn't that seem
backwards to you? Argh.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Homes by Mazhar — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:07:30 -0000

Many cancer sufferers do not want to deal with any more doctors than necessary, and that is why they can enjoy the ability to Generic Online Viagra so much more than some men who would normally have no really big issue with going to a doctor to get a prescription.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Your DNA Online — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:55:23 -0000

While I'm on FB fairly often, I don't often scroll down past the first
page and forget that new fans often go back further than this and leave
comments and so I usually miss them. That is one change that FB should
definitely be allowing admins of Fan Pages.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Samad ahmad — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:01:29 -0000

wish to get in touch<herf="www.mtech computers.="" in"="" rel="do follow">m tech computers

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

susiesharp — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:19:03 -0000

Facebook now allows people who ask to be your friends view your page as if they WERE a friend, even if you've clicked "not now". You need to take a second step to delete the request, which I find annoying. Why should someone who wants to be my friend see my page without my permission - especially when Facebook doesn't allow me to see any information at all from the requester. Doesn't that seem backwards to you? Argh.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

darrin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:40:37 -0000

Im looking to contact a technision from facebook have a question i cant get my applications to load anymore for instance farmtown.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Gianpaolo Grazioli — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:10:54 -0000

I agree. those are three things that annoys me a lot.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Melinda | SuperWAHM — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:48:23 -0000

Apparently if you 'Like' your own post on your fan page then you'll be notified of follow-up comments. Although that does mean that you have to manually 'Like' all your posts, rather than just leaving FB to post them from your blog.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Ricardo Bueno — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:17:44 -0000

I don't like that comments on pages don't notify the page owner. In this case, I have to log in (which I do once a day or every other day) and check for new content/comments. Then again, I don't have 1,000's of subscribers (or "fans") so it makes it a little easier for me to manage. That and people seem to be pretty good about contacting me via Facebook email to make sure that I get a message should they wish to get in touch.

Is this something that I'd like to change? Of course. I think it'd be pretty convenient to get notifications.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Kirsty_Stewart — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:21:27 -0000

I'm not sure if I like the 3rd suggestion (if I'm reading it right), I think I would just find msg's duplicated too many times, and while I can see how it could be great cross-promotion, I can see how it would easily annoy people.

Your 2nd suggestion though is a really big one, and one that I find incredibly frustrating. While I'm on FB fairly often, I don't often scroll down past the first page and forget that new fans often go back further than this and leave comments and so I usually miss them. That is one change that FB should definitely be allowing admins of Fan Pages.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

DSimpsonBeck — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:15:17 -0000

I dunno, I may have spoken too soon.. again...

Just got a comment on the page and no notification.

I'll keep investigating, maybe there is a way to tweak it.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

weissie20 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:07:32 -0000

I agree! Especially on the fan page one!

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Chris Brogan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:25:14 -0000

Ohhhhhh!! Neato!

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

Scott Fox, Click Millionaires — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:27:59 -0000

HI Chris,

I think these are great suggestions. As a fellow online marketer and author, I fully support these suggestions because they would make Facebook a more effective marketing platform for us.

But I don't think Facebook is avoiding those changes simply because they want to increase ad views. With 200+ million users they already have far more page views/impressions than they can monetize effectively.

It's more likely that the complexity of changes such as you suggest cause ripple effects throughout their system that are very challenging to engineer and QA properly.
Their continued rapid user growth means that it's tough for them to even keep providing adequate server space and bandwidth, much less introduce multiple additional contingent and connected database calls on many additional pages.

In the mean time, I expect they are not too worried about accumulating more ad impressions inventory (quantity) but are moving toward what you implicitly suggest: a focus on increased utility that attracts greater loyalty (quality). Now that Facebook is so big, they'll make more money by improving the service so they can raise the CPM rates than by adding page views.

So, I hope that they'll get there but it may be a while.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

NatMich — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:18:42 -0000

lol, I guess the way I use Facebook is sort of different. While status updates are fun, I don't spend a lot of time reading them so the lack of "real-timeliness" in viewing them or any responses to mine has not been a huge concern to me. That said, I think you make some great points regarding how the ads are blocking they way for potential useful features or movement into more real-time, easier to share information site (aka: more like Twitter ;).

The ads are also a known issue for Facebook and have not proven as effective as would be ideal. I think your point about your desire to share ads at times is very intriguing. After all, there is really a ton of promotion of goods, sites, and the rest on Facebook- the problem is that this promotion is happening friend to friend and not ad-to-user. I wonder if there is a way to take advantage of this?

Another idea I think would be cool, and useful, would be to try and present ads more functionally as "helpful functions" on Facebook. For instance, if there was a really easy place on my Facebook page I could click on to open up bar/club events happening in my area or see food specials at local restaurants, I would definitely check it out! If not to actually find, invite and publish it on my page, then just for fun to see what's going on.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

BeckyPearce — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:24:10 -0000

Chris, I think you're right on. ALL 3 of these are features I have found myself wishing for when using our Fan page. The other thing I find extremely difficult is working with apps on Fan pages. FB apps are "buggy" even on personal pages but seem to be even worse on Fan pages. I often can't get an app installed and, even when I can, the setup process causes errors until I give up altogether. To makes it even worse, they have little to no customer support to help deal with these obstacles.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

hivesusan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:20:31 -0000

I wish Facebook would allow the admin of a fan page to comment on that page's post as herself. For example, if I post something on the restaurant's page that I help to administer, I might like to share it with my friends, who are not remotely the same. But the only way to do it is to comment as the page, which makes you look like a dumbass. Also, I wish Facebook would answer when I ask them to explain the numerical rating on Insights.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

AngPeregrino — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:06:30 -0000

Great points Chris. # 2 is also my pet peeve and a source of minor irritation actually.

I hope FB reads this and does something about it.

Thanks!

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

zabdul — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:58:22 -0000

I completely agree with your second point. I just realized that myself yesterday. I went into my fan page (once in a blue moon) only to discover that people have been leaving comments and I was never alerted. I got back to them, but late. Wish I'd known I wasn't going to get alerts for that!
e

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

DSimpsonBeck — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:45:29 -0000

I believe Melissa Ward's solution above solves our issues with #2. Try it out :)

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

DSimpsonBeck — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:39:08 -0000

Oh and look at that, there is a solution!
Thanks Melissa, it seems to have worked :)
Perhaps in my haste I have underestimated what I can get Facebook to do.
That said, I wouldn't have known the solution without this blog post, so thanks Chris and thanks Melissa! That's one less thing I need to worry about :)

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

ShariFintess — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:38:03 -0000

I agree with change #2. I have a fan page and don't like that I'm not automatically updated when someone leaves a comment.

I also wish they would raise the "friend" limit on your profile page to have NO LIMITS.

Re: Three Changes I Wish Facebook Would Make

DSimpsonBeck — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:19:26 -0000

Hi Chris,

Thanks for making this post, these are all issues I would like to see fixed. Especially number 2 - it was me who you were tweeting with earlier about Riverblind's missed opportunity. Thanks for the link :)

We were on our first national tour here in New Zealand last year. Our fan page was new then and I had mistakenly assumed that I would be sent notifications like on my normal Facebook page. I simply didn't bother to check, especially not being busy with all that goes on with touring. I checked emails and the website, but most of the time we didn't have immediate access to the net anyhow. Then, a day after the Dunedin gig (our most well-received show of the tour), I had time to relax, sit down and flick through Facebook. Arrgh! An interview? A review? Just need to invite you to last night's gig?!

That was not a good feeling.

At first I blamed myself for not checking. Then I blamed the journalist for not bothering to use our email address. But this was our first ever tour, we can't just pass up oppurtunities. He was willing to do us a favour and we were not in a position to expect him to chase us around the city. And he probably expected, like we did, that Facebook would simply work.

"Facebook sends you emails, right?"
"Sure, I get tonnes..."

Unfortunately, for whatever reason there are parts of Facebook, like many sites, that don't work the way you would expect or want. Perhaps this has to do with a need for more ad clicks, or they simply don't realise it's an issue, I have no idea.

But my experience really made me think how much it helps to really know how a site functions before you can rely on it in your business.

I did immediately update the page with more explicit instructions that all press and other inquiries should go to our email. But I still have to "police" the page as Chris tweeted.

Thanks again for the mention Chris - it means a lot to us three guys who are trying to make it doing what we love.

Take care,

Dan