Little
irritated with the folks from Facebook. I appreciate that they're a
business and they can do whatever they want but I have an account in
the hopes that it will be useful to me.
I have
an artist friend that I tried to connect with several weeks ago.
Because I sent him a friend request and he confirmed it immediately,
I thought we were successful. I was puzzled in that none of his posts
were showing up on my feed yet my son was seeing new posts from him
daily. This a common occurance with some of my Facebook connections
and I find it more than a little annoying. Usually going to my
friend's wall and liking a few items just to give the system a kick
will rectify the problem at least temporarily. My kids go a step
further by tagging their friends in comments regularly. I find that
inconvenient but I couldn't even do that in this case because
Facebook somehow unfriended us. We'll try to rectify this when I get
home this evening. I know that this instance is not an isolated one
and I don't think it's a glitch. I promote my writing on Facebook and
at times it seems to be getting more and more of a challenge. I know
that they prefer I spend money to promote stuff on their site but I
haven't got much in the way of funds.
I have
two purposes for being on Facebook. Number one is to try to keep up
with family and friends. The other of course is to promote my
business efforts including my writing. This isn't the first nor the
more upsetting incident. The worst was easily loosing track of a good
friend and finding out they tragically passed away and I didn't find
out until several months after the fact.
In the
face of their mysterious algorithims, I have a plan. I will be going
through my friend list as I have time and try to kick the system back
in gear. I will also begin tagging people regularly. I will try to do
it without sounding weird, annoying or inappropriate. It's a daunting
challenge
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