Dear Facebook...

I love our page.  I make no money off it, I just do it for fun.  We have some kick ass "fans" (sorry, I don't know what else to call them), many of whom make me smile just by leaving a comment.  Unlike so many damn pages I won't link to ilyke, lolspots, rolfzone or like.com.  And I'm sure there are others.  I don't want the same thing posting at the same time on tons of pages, and I don't want our followers to have to click to another site to see it.  For the record, I don't begrudge pages who do that.  Believe me, having an automated system post the majority of the content and making money at the same time is awfully appealing.  I may not always be funny or insightful, but I try to be semi original.

It's so discouraging when out of over 17,500 people, only a few hundred are seeing what we post.  The rules keep changing.  You can't just hit "like" and have a page's posts show up on your timeline.  I would assume that if someone likes a page then they want to see it.  But there have been times when things that I posted on Laptop Confessions myself have not shown up on my own newsfeed.   

What most people don't know is that you want me to pay to have my posts seen by more people.  If I was a business I wouldn't have a problem with it.  Sometimes you have to spend money to make money.  But I don't make money from the page, and you essentially want me to buy views.  You can set a daily budget.  I can't afford that, I need to get working on my bail fund.  

• For $5 one post will reach an estimated 7,200-13,000 people.  Yeah, we already have more people who have liked our page and you have kept them from seeing us.
• For $30 one post will reach an estimated 28,000-52,000 people.  Still, for one post.
• For $100 one post will reach an estimated 44,000-83,000 people.  Oh, and that one post is over the course of one day.
• For $200 one post will reach an estimated 69,000-130,000 people.  You'd think it would reach double since you're paying double.  I guess not.
• For $2,000 one post will reach an estimated 330,000-620,000 people.  Sorry, this leaves me speechless.

I know that before I had a page I would spend more time of Facebook because I enjoyed visiting pages.  Not because I am getting a suggestion to like Giuliana Rancic and her " fall FabFitFun VIP Box full of $175+ of must try products".  Yup, that's the second thing on my newsfeed.  And if you ask the average Facebook user (not your shareholders who just want more money) I'm pretty sure they'd say the same.  Even if that FabFitFun VIP Box looks very intriguing. 

Don't make me beg people who might kinda like me (Sweets, that is) to like and comment and share.  We don't need to be a big page, but I am a bit of an attention whore.  It's not just us.  It's most pages.  I want to see my favorite pages show up on my newsfeed.  I want to know when my favorite bloggers post something new (hopefully someday someone will think like that about us).  I want to be entertained. 

And I want to grow both our page and this blog.  Because both, in many ways, have saved me.

Smooches,
Sweets