Facebook will soon announce a change to allow
members to “unfollow” specific friends whose posts they don’t want to see in
their own tailored newsfeeds. They could
still keep them as “friends”.
This could pose an issue for bloggers who stream
their tweets to Facebook. I do that, as
well as streaming them to the home page of my own site (doaskdotell.com). I find that doing this puts my own news items
before a large number of persons, companies and org’s each day, even if they
don’t find me by search engines (which is how it had worked in the past before
Facebook re-invented the news streaming business).
My own practice with Facebook is that when I sign
on, I typically see about 30-50 new items.
Usually, I can thumb through them very quickly on a computer and read
the two or three that are most interesting, all in two or three minutes. Sometimes I do “like” posts and comment on
them. It’s also possible to contact some
media entities (like NBC’s SNL) with Facebook messaging more easily than with
normal email.
Facebook seems to limit the length of a post (to
about 450 characters), more than Twitter (140).
In the past, some people blogged on both Myspace and Facebook, but put
longer postings on Myspace. Ashton
Kutcher, in his pre-twitter days, often did this, and had a very interesting
blog on Myspsace.
I plan to create another newsfeed, as a simple HTML
table, on my “doaskdotell.com” site as part of my restructuring. This will be very simple to access, have no
advertising, load very fast, and allow any user to see the recent news items
that I think are the most important. It
would have the author, title, periodical or website, and url, and date, and
label classification of the story only.
This should be available in about a week.
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