Comments on: Dear Facebook, WTF Are You Doing Now?

By: Jonny Blu

Jonny Blu — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:52:51 +0000

Hey Cal! Very cool of you to respond man. I think that you actually may be right about the fact that I have more than one listed domain having an effect. Things like this do cause confusion in a database.

I do figure that the process will be extremely slow; fortunately I’ve learned to be patient… gotta be in this business! :) I do wish I could figure out some way to get “verified” on Twitter someday!

Cheers!

By: Cal Simpson

Cal Simpson — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:01:19 +0000

My company works with three of the majors in smaller territories assisting them with their artist’s online and all of them have had pages that have gone through the same reclassification process in the last week. No one is immune, however interestingly only the artists with Wikipedia pages have been targeted. Also interesting is that each of the targeted pages have some or other issue regarding their domains, links to Facebook or no website at all.
I notice you have multiple domains, which would match the above classification. While I am not saying that this is the reason, it could have contributed to it.
Be advised, the reply process is extremely slow as they converted a lot of pages at the same time and are no doubt fielding the many resulting requests for reclassification.

By: Jonny Blu

Jonny Blu — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:58:19 +0000

Facebook is following the lead of Twitter!

On Twitter, there is no way for un-signed “indie” artists (like me) to get “verified” on Twitter; this effectively has kept us in search engine obscurity and makes for a lot more clicking…suck-o-rama!. Strangely enough though, if you’re signed or have a killer publicist it’s all easy peezy to be verified; go figure!

Now Facebook is doing the same thing to us with these Community Pages. Like on Twitter, strangely enough none of the major label Musician/Band pages on Facebook were auto-shifted, but every indie I know (including me) went into auto-induced search engine obscurity once again.

I’m trying to keep my hopes up that Facebook will respond to my request to switch me back… my fingers are already hurting from keeping them crossed!

When will we ever get a break?! Oh, Mr. Zuckerburg please don’t take us indies the way of the Myspace debacle!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:07:07 +0000

Great posting, funny stories from the interesting times on dealing with Facebook. Seems they’re a bit confused of who their real customers are, maybe “too many minds” I think Confucius might have said.

By: Cal Simpson

Cal Simpson — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:00:04 +0000

Nigedo, this is a pain for sure, but there are solutions. The inteded Facebook function where you could claim Community pages never panned out, but that is not to say you cannot still solve the problem. Check a few posts up and find my email address. We can possibly assist you.

Regards
Cal

By: DG

DG — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:20:31 +0000

Didn’t they get rid of Groups for a while? I noticed one day they were gone and then several months later I saw the option of the side bar to create a group. Anyway, I def think facebook was way better when I first got it five years or so ago. Remeber when they first changed it and people were freaking out because it became so much easier to stalk everyone?

By: nigedo

nigedo — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:01:16 +0000

Community pages are a potential nightmare for small businesses trying to build a presence on Facebook because they are created automatically when someone adds information to their own profile and cause confusion among would be fans.

If I add my new small business to my list of employers, Facebook goes ahead and creates a community page by that name. Now I create a business page for my new business. The two are indistinguishable to many people and some will come looking for my business and ‘like’ the community page instead of my official page, so they miss my updates.

GG facebook. :/

By: NH Internet Marketing

NH Internet Marketing — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:35:21 +0000

Lisa, nice article, really funny intro. I can’t stand half of the things Facebook does these days. As an internet marketer its quite a challenge keeping up with the latest Facebook changes!

By: Albert Melfo

Albert Melfo — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:05:35 +0000

Lisa —

Great blog — and great discussion everyone. Just wanted to add what a relief it is for me to see that I’m NOT the only one who has encountered this confusion. Like many of you, my opinion is that FB gave users too many options, without really thinking through how they would use them — let alone realizing that their approach would be so confusing to users, and that the end result would be mass page confusion.

Reminds me of some towns — they seem to have a sensible core center, but the farther away from the center you get, the less sense the city planning makes. It’s almost like it evolved organically, without scant attention given to the future shape. So, you start with unity, which is your objective, but you end up with chaos.

At this point, really, I’d be happy if I could just run a report (say, all pages with “Your School’s Name Here” in the title, so I could just begin to try to make sense out of it myself. Personally, it feels kinda mean of FB to give us the search functionality that tells us “…over 500 results,” and then forcing us to view the results 10 at a time. Annoying!

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By: Cal Simpson

Cal Simpson — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:26:26 +0000

@DeLaina and @ToryT. Your problems can be solved, but you have to take more drastic measures than you have. My company deals with these daily and we can assist you to get these sorted out. Please email eyeseefb@gmail.com and we’ll get in touch.