Meta Is Considering Charging Business Pages To Post Links (socialmediatoday.com)
- Reference: 0180410971
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/1457249/meta-is-considering-charging-business-pages-to-post-links
- Source link: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-considering-charging-business-pages-to-post-links/808099/
> "Starting December 16, certain Facebook profiles without Meta Verified, including yours, will be limited to sharing links in 2 organic posts per month. Subscribe to Meta Verified to share more links on Facebook, plus get a verified badge and additional benefits to help protect your brand."
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> To be clear, right now this is a limited test, so relatively few Pages are impacted. But understandably, a lot of users are also seeking more information on the change, and whether it could be expanded to all Pages. So, Meta's seeking to boost take-up of Meta Verified, in order to make more money out of its subscription option, which, for business users, costs between $14.99 and $499 per month, depending on which package you choose.
[1] https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-considering-charging-business-pages-to-post-links/808099/
Fleecing their last customers? (Score:3)
One of the few reasons to even interact with Meta/Facebook is for small businesses using it as a free web host, if they get driven off maybe we can have a decentralized internet again
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Somebody has to pay for all the AI investments!
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The timing of this seems super weird, as Facebook is now basically irrelevant for anyone under the age of 40.
They might have been actually able to get away this 12 years ago when Facebook was still new and cool, but now it's really only used by boomers who share fake news with each other and complain that their grand kids don't visit them often. Businesses will just stop posting and leave a link to their website instead.
Level up! (Score:3)
"Enshitification complete, sir!"
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> "Enshitification complete, sir!"
Sweet summer child. You think this is complete? They won't be happy until people have force-installed tech gadgets at birth that pipe ads directly into our brains while we sleep. We're aiming to enshitify the entire human experience, not just online interaction.
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> "Enshitification complete, sir!"
That's a contemptible lie - Facebook was a piece of shit from the get-go.
pointless (Score:1)
Most businesses already avoid putting links directly in their posts. They always post links in the comments cause it helps with reach.
what a joke (Score:2)
unless you pay a ton of money your organic posts end up getting shown to 2 people in your audience as it is now
Cash flow must be down (Score:3)
They're engaging in (even more blatant) rent-seeking behavior.
Anyone...? (Score:2)
Does anyone ever use Meta the cesspile for anything other than scams?
Final stage of enshittification is when the site abuses both the users and the advertisers. I think we are there.
In other words ... (Score:2)
Buy an ad.
There was once a time when... (Score:2)
...FB was the place where glassworkers showed their work and there were a lot of glassworkers on the site.
I make machines for glasswork, and FB was a great way to show the glass community what I was making.
Over time, I noticed more and more glassworkers leaving FB. It's now mostly ads, AI slop, promoted posts, pop culture and other assorted crap.
It's barely worth the time to look at, and I have slowed my posting dramatically.
I wish that glassworkers had a good place to share our work
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Could host an old school forum if reddit isn't your cup of tea. They still exist but they're a bit rarified and seem to only appeal to millennials and older.
Great! (Score:2)
Glad I never created an account!
Not Having An Account (Score:2)
Does this mean that we have to create an account so that we can drop them?
Seems like a pain in the ass.
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Don't worry, they made for you.