Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Is Facebook getting annoying?


Facebook is a company that is huge in the social media market today, but it is driving users away I think because it wants to be more than just an social network. I think that Facebook is going to crash like Myspace did, just faded away into the social network abyss. How is Facebook driving users away you may ask? In my opinion, Facebook has created a large number of users that want to share statuses, and look at other people statuses. As a result of this, Facebook has a captive audience, so Mark Zuckerburg, the creater/co-owner of Facebook, decided to place advertisements and game to create revenue for Facebook. At the beginning of Facebook(I joined Facebook in 2007), I didn’t really notice these ads and games, but a year or two ago I started to notice them. It didn’t annoy me so much then because I didn’t use Facebook as much as I do now. Plus, the advertisements and games weren’t as noticeable as it is now, in the advertisements are everywhere. The right side of your Facebook page, is littered with advertisements, saying so-and-so liked this page so you like it, who cares! Along with targeted advertisements to your liking, where they are taking companies that you liked or showed interest in on Facebook and putting it into an algorithm then they post advertisements based upon that algorithm. Games bug me to now because my friends will notify me of a game they played and then it goes to my phone and my I Pad. I don’t ever play Facebook games because I like to play console and handheld games. So why do my friends keep sending me messages to play so-and-so? I don’t know! The game notifications go into my notification feed. I know you can turn that off, but it is very hidden in the settings and I don’t have time to mess with the settings being a full fledged college student. I hear the advertisements are going to just increase over time, so that won’t help out any. So as you can see why I think Facebook will fade out just like Myspace did. Why cannot Facebook be just a social network? This next segment is how to change Facebook to not lose as many users as it will if this continues. Promote a company in a different way, such as if you like the company, you will get a code for a percent off your next purchase. For the games, make it easier to turn off the notifications like in the notification bar, you have an on/off button of what you want to be notified about, instead of having to go into settings and select whatever you want to get rid of. Another idea is to have advertisements on the notification bar and no place else. That way Facebook can still make money and you don't have to see the advertisements in and around your news feed. Do you feel like these ideas will get you not to leave Facebook? Do you have any other ideas that would work?  

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