Priority of Social Media over official forums

ShaggyBodom · Jul 30, 2014

Maltaros said: ↑

“Hmm... When I go to Facebook I never get recommendations. Seems like a hit or miss thing. I have glanced at my wife's page when she is looking at it. She doesn't get them either. Is it an opt in feature or something? Does Ad-Blocker also block those? I don't know but I can tell you it seems to be hit or miss if you ever get it.

Reordering by "Most Recent" still doesn't give me everything. I use that button everyday. If you think it gives you everything you just don't know that you are missing a lot of stuff. Nice try but I still don't get the posts I want from the restaurant across the street EQ2. Just baby pictures and political rants that I never respond to. Telling me how it is supposed to work vs. how it really works doesn't matter. (And the guy with the restaurant posts three or four times daily - I have to purposefully search him out and comment - still never shows up. It is a known issue with Facebook.)

Just because social media has millions of people registered doesn't mean you are every going to reach anybody besides your own fan base. As I already pointed out, at least in my household we never see "Recommendations". Of the people that get them how many ever look at them and how many are relevant? Nice little fact for you folks as well - the number of actual users for a social media site vs. those who use it are small. Check out the numbers for Twitter. Only about 1/5 of the people who sign up for an account ever use it and an even smaller number use it regularly. It is a nice fantasy that somehow you will reach a lot of people with social media, but unlikely.”

I am actually not sure where the recommendations are, I just know they exist haha. I never used that feature. I have had friends share new games with me and they usually got it from Facebook recommending it to them.

Yea I learned yesterday when I posted on another forum that Most Recent don't show everything, so sorry about that I don't have very many facebook friends, mostly just family, and I see everyone on my feed so I just figured I got everything.

I have been wondering the past few days just how many people USE the social sites besides just talking to friends and family. A very popular streamer on Twitch linked us an article that said Twitch was like the 2nd or 3rd most visited website in the world. I think it was above Facebook and definitely above Twitter. However you don't see THAT many viewers on streams. Yea Tournaments can have hundreds of thousands of viewers, but that ain't every day. It makes me wonder, where does everyone on the internet go? lol. I know Google is the #1 site, so I guess most people just randomly browse the internet instead of doing anything more. And this is me going ramble ramble ramble ramble

Avahlynn · Jul 30, 2014

Griff said: ↑

“I think there may be others looking at it in the way that I perceive it. SoE, you know where to find my wallet, we established that years ago with EQ-1 and kept that relationship going. We meet at the official site when I need to purchase services, upgrades, subscriptions, it's well established.

Then, you conduct some of the promotions and give out some special news, I find you off in the street, working some corner with the social crowd. You come home though every month to visit the bank and remind me about our special relationship.

Now I understand that our financial arrangement needs to be kept private on the up and up, but I don't feel so special when others tell me about something I missed when you were out with your friends in the social media crowd.”

This. X 1000. Yes.

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