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Zuckerberg Announces Changes Coming to Facebook Algorithm, Could It Make Pages Pointless?

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

If you haven’t seen the announcement:

Seems to me that trying to follow a blog, or other website by following their Facebook page just got about impossible. As a page owner, it also seems to me that spending much time trying to share my content on Facebook also just got about pointless. It’s clear, despite the assertion that people might spend less time on the platform, that Facebook will, in fact, simply be pushing away more things that point people off the platform, while trying to learn even more about us that can be sold to advertisers.

Though, how those advertisers feel about Facebook de-emphasizing links outside of Facebook might not be all that thrilled either.

I guess we’ll see, but I would highly recommend following blogs and websites that you truly care about using something other than Facebook.

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