Notice the underline? It’s not allowing. It’s requiring. It’s taking your post and trying to gin up interest with other people, people you don’t know, in order to get a little more ad income.
They will not switch from requiring to allowing because most people would opt out.
My objection is that it’s clogging up my feed and making checking on friends and family into a slog. It’s jamming my feed with things that none of my friends or family posted or shared. Remember sharing? If you wanted to share something, you shared it with one click. Now liking and commenting has been hijacked into sharing because we can’t be trusted to manage our feed in a way that will maximize their profits.
They know they’re shaking the jar, but they don’t care. It’s scummy. It’s an insult. I know where the share button is and don’t need anyone co-opting my choice on whether to use it.
I really don’t understand the compulsion and… techno-driven push to expose our whole lives to everyone on the net. We pretty much all have compartmented lives, and the idea of dumping all our activities, details, thoughts and feelings onto a single indiscriminate global billboard should be anathema to most people.
The number of stories of people who freely posted shit about their lives and then were shocked, shocked I tell you when mom or the boss or the wife or the ex or a prospective company found it are way too plentiful.
Facebook is evidence that most people can’t really think their actions through. Or, put a period after think.
Notice the underline. Sure someone might see it if they went to that site. There’s a big difference between that and having Facebook take your comment and spam everyone in your address book, just to boost their ad income. That’s them shaking the jar to see if they can get some flame wars going, to further boost their income.
No shit. If I like a page, I would expect my friends and family to see that I like it. I’m still not sure why this is so surprising. Else why would I like anything? To let the Guns N Roses page know that manson1972 likes them?
I don’t particularly care if someone else can see that I commented on or liked a post. I take care not to put up anything I don’t want the world to know.
What I do dislike is being told that one of my friends commented on or liked a post I don’t give a hearty handshake about. So and so likes Sears? Who cares?
The person or the other group controls who sees their Facebook page. What, you want to control the distribution of anybody else’s page you post to? It doesn’t work like that and it shouldn’t.
Yes, they do. Let’s say I have a friend named Adam. Adam has a friend named Bob. Bob and I are not friends and have no connection at all. Adam comments on a post from Bob wherein Bob laments his health issues and impending divorce. Bob’s post and Adam’s comment show up on my news feed. I go to Bob’s page to figure out why I should care about this guy, and his profile is locked tight- no posts show up for me, because we aren’t friends. Yet there it is, in my newsfeed.
It goes back to the example I gave earlier; this literally just happened on my feed. Poster A posts on his timeline that he’s taking a new job. Poster B comments “congrats!!!” Poster C, who is friends with Poster B, sees Poster A’s post/Poster B’s comment in their news feed. Poster C is Poster A’s supervisor, who doesn’t know A has been job hunting- whoops.
Not that I doubt what you are seeing, but if this was true for all friends, all you would see in your news feed would be comments that your friends posted on OTHER peoples pages. The amount of comments that your list of friends made on THEIR friends pages would be astronomical if they all appeared in your newsfeed.
This does seem like a problem. Not sure how that would get fixed.
Actually, I just tested this, and it seems to happen ONLY if Poster A’s page is public (using your scenario). So if their page is public, they shouldn’t get annoyed if general members of the public see stuff on their page even their current boss.
I don’t know how FB decides when you do and don’t see rando-person’s post on your feed, but I assure you it’s not just limited to those who have their profiles as public. The most recent example is of a guy whose page is locked up tighter than Ft Knox. My page is decidedly not public (I have multiple friends filters that I use and never, ever use the FB categories), and I’ve had it happen.
Well, this would seem to imply that a page that is “locked up tighter than Ft. Knox” is not locked up at all, since it is trivially easy to let other people look at everything on his page. You could “like” every single photo on his page, and then all YOUR friends could see the photos.
agree. it seems to be almost random, and it’s very annoying. I only want to see what friends post on their timelines. I don’t ever want to see anything else.
No. If you wanted your friends and family to see it, you’d share it.
No - if they wanted me to know they liked Sears, they’d have shared it. Sharing shares. Liking gets randomly hijacked to put more eyes on more posts so that Facebook can charge higher rates for their ads. That is, not all likes get passed on.
And, yes, friend’s comments on complete stranger’s posts show up.
I hadn’t thought of that, but that’s another crappy result of the practice.
No, I wouldn’t. I would “like” it because I assume when I “like” something, my friends and family could see that I “like” it, because why the hell else would I “like” something?
