Facebook Fire Back At BuzzFeed: No Ulterior Motive, Users Don't Care How Many People View Their Posts

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Source: www.teknoids.net --- Sunday, July 14, 2013
?The Number Facebook Doesn?t Want You To See?, an article from Thursday by BuzzFeed claimed Facebook is hiding the number of people who see your posts so you don?t feel bad that most people don?t Like or comment. This morning, a Facebook engineer wrote a retort claiming that is ?just plain wrong?, and that Facebook?s testing showed most users are more interested in feedback than total views. BuzzFeed cited a Stanford study of 220,000 Facebook users that says they underestimate their posts? audience size by a factor of three. In reality, Facebook users reach 35% of their friends with each post and 61% of their friends per month. The article hinged on the idea that if you have hundreds of friends yet only get a couple of Likes per post, it?s not that people don?t see your posts, it?s that they ignore them or don?t care enough to Like. BuzzFeed?s Charlie Warzel writes that Facebook ?knows full well that the only thing worse than speaking to an empty room is speaking to a room full of friends and family and having them ignore you.? That?s his reasoning for why Facebook won?t tell normal users how many people see their posts, and it sounds plausible. Facebook doesn?t want to hurt our feelings and prove our friends don?t care about us. But Facebook news feed engineer Lars Backstrom brings his own data to the argument. It?s not an official statement by Facebook, though I was tipped off to it by Facebook PR. About the potential view coun ...

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