Awesome! Another marketing gimmick that will get businesses to spam your wall!
I have a strange feeling that Facebook is getting closer and closer to the point that regular users are going to have to pay to keep all of these “new and exciting features” out of their Facebook experience. The sad part is that many users will pay to keep having the experience on Facebook. I’m hoping there is a revolt at some point or another… Either way, here is the story about this “wonderful” new feature…
Basically how this new feature works is that a user can pay a small amount of money to Facebook to promote their posts at the top.Screw social networking skills, you can just pay to have your post at the top. This is great for a business because now all they have to do is focus on getting their Facebook page looking pretty then pay a lot of money to promote the posts that they make at the top of everyone’s wall. No longer does the business need to strive to keep the “conversation” as hard as they used to.
This is a perfect money grabber for some businesses that believe in old marketing techniques that believe “If I pay a lot of money…I will make even more money!” WRONG!
Smart businesses will work on keeping the conversation that is social media, alive. By all means…promote every post that you make to be on the top of everyone’s wall and you will be quickly blocked or removed.
Mark Zuckerburg continues to state:
It’s about growing the company, not the money…
If you want to continue with that path Mark, you need to stop putting these weird tools into place. I’m half tempted to leave Facebook every time it’s updated if it weren’t for its Social Networking power and conversation starter.
