uh-oh. Someone needs to tell Mark ‘Dumb Fucks’ Zuckerberg that enough is enough.
After all the walking on thin ice with the current privacy blah-blah, Facebook decided it was a good idea to kill fanpages off – unless you’re a big company with deep pockets.
The main reason for this is probably the amount of ‘step 1 become a fan – step 2 tell all your friends – step 3 make me money by clicking my ads’ aka 3-step facebook code viral pages. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of those around. Quite annoying, but if this was a decision purely based on stopping the spam, and increasing the user-experience; why tell developers and businesses that they need to get in touch with a Facebook Ads Account Manager to enable static FBML? And that they have to have at least 10,000 people that like the page in the first place? Can we still spam Facebook, as long as we pay for it?
So basically you can setup an extremely limited fanpage profile for your business. This will make it a lot harder to get people to like your fanpage. Then after reaching 10K ‘fans’, Facebook will let you make a nice landingpage will most likely attract a whole lot more ‘likes’. I can’t believe that Facebook would think a spammer would have a problem getting 10K likes from all their fake account networks. They only people that are getting hurt are small businesses.
What what it boils down to is that thousands of small businesses are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. They used the tools Facebook provided for them to build a business, and now they have to take it up the ass from Mark ‘ Dumb Fucks’ Zuckerberg. All their hard work is down the drain + they’re getting a lot of shit from their clients who paid for customised fanpages.
Sure, Facebook is it’s own product, and if it decides to change things, they’re obviously entitled to. But it seems that they’re starting to think that they are the market, instead of the product.
No wonder sites like Quit Facebook are popping up left and right. I think MySpace slowly bled to death, but Facebook is rapidly committing digital suicide by the looks of it.
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Hey Bob,
I completely agree with your post, I was also pretty annoyed when I heard the news.
However, as far as I am aware this action was reversed on the same day that it happened. God knows what they were thinking, no announcement or anything – CPALead publishers chatroom had people going nuts as of course, this is what most of the spammers and 3-step viral pages are using.
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