I wrote what I thought was a pretty damn decent blog entry last year (relating to the riots, and a social commentator in one of the mid-market tabloids blaming computer games, single parents and probably voting rights for women etc). I linked to this on Rooster Teeth (friends at the time: approx 36) and on Facebook (friends at the time: approx 140).
Rooster Teeth provided more hits for that link than Facebook by a scale of about 5:1, possibly more. However, I disagree with your reason of Facebook's new selective posting as being the reason for things like this.
The thing is Facebook is a very non-committal site; it isn't where you go to speak to your friends, it is where you go to "store" your friends when you're not-speaking. Away from the screen, or on Rooster Teeth here, if you want to speak to people, you speak to them. On Facebook, you post a status - this basically means you speak to yourself and hope people are listening.
There is such an overwhelming barrage of information on Facebook - even with the streamlined posts from contacts, it is giving you information 24/7, more than you can ever cope with - and that's the killer. You posted links to the blog, something important to you, and were competing with people posting links to songs they like on Youtube, random news articles, entertainment websites, miscellaneous junk status updates that tell you nothing about how the person actually is...
... we don't go there to click links and move onto other sites. We might click "like", as it's a non-committal way of saying "I saw this", but that's about it.
The longer I'm on Facebook, the less use I can see for the site. It wants to be a way of keeping up with how your friends are doing, but when they cut the update stream back to select posts only, it was like a confession that they couldn't deliver on this aim.
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Rooster Teeth provided more hits for that link than Facebook by a scale of about 5:1, possibly more. However, I disagree with your reason of Facebook's new selective posting as being the reason for things like this.
The thing is Facebook is a very non-committal site; it isn't where you go to speak to your friends, it is where you go to "store" your friends when you're not-speaking. Away from the screen, or on Rooster Teeth here, if you want to speak to people, you speak to them. On Facebook, you post a status - this basically means you speak to yourself and hope people are listening.
There is such an overwhelming barrage of information on Facebook - even with the streamlined posts from contacts, it is giving you information 24/7, more than you can ever cope with - and that's the killer. You posted links to the blog, something important to you, and were competing with people posting links to songs they like on Youtube, random news articles, entertainment websites, miscellaneous junk status updates that tell you nothing about how the person actually is...
... we don't go there to click links and move onto other sites. We might click "like", as it's a non-committal way of saying "I saw this", but that's about it.
The longer I'm on Facebook, the less use I can see for the site. It wants to be a way of keeping up with how your friends are doing, but when they cut the update stream back to select posts only, it was like a confession that they couldn't deliver on this aim.
-Peter