Free Social Media Help for Solopreneurs | Social Media Marketing Help | Social Networking for Small Businesses » facebook news feeds http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:52:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cliff Note Version: Everything You Wanted to Know About Facebook News Feeds and Live Feeds http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/cliff-note-version-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-facebook-news-feeds-and-live-feeds http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/cliff-note-version-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-facebook-news-feeds-and-live-feeds#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:20:54 +0000 admin http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/?p=657 In an attempt to help us manage information overload, Facebook has implemented a new way for us to view the status updates of our friends, fan pages we belong to and groups we belong to.

I’ve gotten a lot of questions from my friends asking me to help make sense of this development.

DIFFERENCE [...]]]> In an attempt to help us manage information overload, Facebook has implemented a new way for us to view the status updates of our friends, fan pages we belong to and groups we belong to.

I’ve gotten a lot of questions from my friends asking me to help make sense of this development.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEWS FEED AND LIVE FEED
Let me start with the most overwhelming one. The Live Feed (think Twitter on steroids) allows you to see EVERYTHING that your friends are doing in real-time. The everything part can be quite overwhelming because you can literlly know every friend they make, every group they join and every wall post made.  Makes me think of Sting.

The News Feed is the section that you see when you first login to Facebook. Facebook takes it upon themselves to aggregate ‘the most interesting content that your friends are posting’.  Does this sound a little like Google behavior to you?  Some geeky Facebook dude came up with a nifty  algorithm which they say is based on a few factors:

  • how many friends are commenting on a certain piece of content
  • who posted the content
  • what type of content it is (photo, video, status update)

What weights each of these factors plays is yet to be determined. I’ll keep you posted.

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]]> http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/cliff-note-version-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-facebook-news-feeds-and-live-feeds/feed 0 Facebook Groups to Now Look More Like Facebook Fan Pages http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/facebook-group-to-now-look-more-like-facebook-fan-pages http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/facebook-group-to-now-look-more-like-facebook-fan-pages#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:49:01 +0000 admin http://www.freesocialmediahelp.com/?p=673 In the past Facebook Group activity has remain confined within the group making it difficult to keep lively interaction between Group members. In October 2009 Groups became more like Fan Pages and Personal Profiles.  Groups now have a Wall that summaries all recent activities of people within the group. These activities will also be [...]]]> In the past Facebook Group activity has remain confined within the group making it difficult to keep lively interaction between Group members. In October 2009 Groups became more like Fan Pages and Personal Profiles.  Groups now have a Wall that summaries all recent activities of people within the group. These activities will also be delivered to your News Feeds. Interaction between group members will happen not only in the group but can happen on the News Feed update as well.

So the vast differences between Fan Pages and Groups are narrowing but Facebook remarks that the purpose of each is different. Groups are for fostering member-to-member collaboration, while Pages remain he best way to broadcast messages to fans if you are a business, organization, public figure or other entity.

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