{"id":4505,"date":"2015-04-22T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2016-12-14T11:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T19:36:01","slug":"what-happened-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/what-happened-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened on Facebook??"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fb_icon_325x325\"<\/a>At the end of\u00a0March this year, we\u00a0chose to migrate to a “Business” page as oppose to continue as a “Friend” page on Facebook for a couple reasons.<\/p>\n

#1 It’s against the rules to\u00a0have\u00a0a business be listed as\u00a0a “Friend” page. We knew our days could be numbered and we could get taken down, so we bit the bullet and converted our “Friends” to “Likes”. \u00a0To be a “Friend” page, you have to be listed as a person.<\/p>\n

#2 The cap on “Friends” is 5,000. There is no cap on “Likes.” We had been keeping Friends at 4,999 so people could request to be friends (otherwise you’d get a notice saying we no longer accept friends). When people shut down their page, un-friended us, we un-friended them, or they got blacked-balled, we would add people who were in the queue. We had dozens in the queue at any given time. They’re all Likes now.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Facebook only shows our posts to\u00a0a very small minority of people who have Liked us. To increase your chances of having us show up in your news feed, hunt us down, make sure you had Liked us, then continue to click on posts, Like them and comment on them. This is our new page:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/venturarockswebsite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know this works, because I was not receiving VenturaRocks Facebook posts on my personal Facebook page News Feed. \u00a0Drove me crazy! \u00a0I knew I was posting events, but I wasn’t seeing them on my personal page. \u00a0Then\u00a0one day I\u00a0personally went to https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/venturarockswebsite<\/a>\u00a0from my personal page, and Liked a couple of posts and even wrote a comment and shared a few. \u00a0Lo and behold, they now show up more consistently!<\/p>\n

So when you see I’ve Liked something, it is for this reason alone: \u00a0to ensure I get the posts on my News Feed!<\/p>\n

I can reach more people if I pay for it, but that ain’t gonna happen anytime soon. \u00a0I might collaborate with venues or artists on doing that in the future though.<\/p>\n

I hope this explains things and why our postings may have disappeared from your News Feed.<\/p>\n

Grrr.<\/p>\n

Of course if you’re not on Facebook, nevermind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the end of\u00a0March this year, we\u00a0chose to migrate to a “Business” page as oppose to continue as a “Friend” page on Facebook for a couple reasons. #1 It’s against the rules to\u00a0have\u00a0a business be listed as\u00a0a “Friend” page. We … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1173,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","category-ventura-rocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/venturarocks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}