In case you’ve missed it, two Goliaths of the digital words are duking it out over Apple’s data privacy changes being rolled out in their iOS 14 update.
Facebook have announced another update, following 2020’s revamp, which will be rolling out from January, 2021. This update will see Facebook removing likes from their new Pages experience, which means there may not be much to “like” at all. Instead, the social media giant is shifting away from it’s most iconic Page action “like” to focus on Page follows instead.
To date, “liking” a Page and “following” a Page might have seemed to be the same thing. You would hit like and receive updates from a Page. That’s because Facebook would also add you as a follower by default. If you got sick of updates from a particular Page (perhaps because your Aunt Gladys guilted you into liking her Page that time: Crocheted Doily Collection) you could unfollow updates, but still show your support for the Page owner by giving their Page a like.
However, liking a Page in isolation means you are no longer engaging with the content because it will no longer show up in your feed.
Of course, there’s always been the option to simply follow a page without actually liking it, but with the new Pages experience, this will now be the default across the board.
The last decade saw the death of some hugely popular social media sites from the early 2000s. Platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram grew in popularity and drove their competitors out of business. We often forget about the platforms that paved the way for our current favourites and that, for many of us, were our first tastes of online social networking.
No one enjoys being “sold to” and studies have shown that consumers in the internet age are less trusting of marketing and sales tactics than ever before.
Clearly, traditional marketing tactics alone aren’t enough. Enter: inbound marketing.
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From lead generation to customer service, social media help us engage with people around the globe.