Facebook really is getting rid of Fake Likes!

[AniaR]

They are finally doing it. My FB page lost about 500 which isn't too bad I think. I think they're all from that time where I paid for FB advertising and got them all in a day? Officially, through FB adds. (there's another thread about it if you want to see the details.)

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They're also removing inactive accounts. So if someone liked you but then stopped using FB their like gets removed.

[AniaR]

FB's official link about it : https://www.facebook.com/business/a/page/fake-likes/

[Winged Mermaid]

Yay! This is good news :) Maybe our reach won't be total crap now. I've lost less than 100 so far, but a few months ago when I noticed a ridiculous amount of likes coming in, I blocked all the big click farm countries from my page (Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand) and they stopped coming in in ridiculous amounts and back to the normal trickle.

[MarkF]

If they are inactive users it doesn't matter to you does it?

[Mer-Crazy]

I hope everyone sees this thread. I've had to correct a few people already who are blindly posting that 'Facebook is deleting people from your page if they
don't interact with you' without checking into it. It took me like 2 seconds to google it to find proof that was an inaccurate statement.

[Princess Pearl]

The benefits of still being having a small Facebook presence- most of my likes are just people that I know!

[AniaR]

Yay! This is good news :) Maybe our reach won't be total crap now. I've lost less than 100 so far, but a few months ago when I noticed a ridiculous amount of likes coming in, I blocked all the big click farm countries from my page (Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand) and they stopped coming in in ridiculous amounts and back to the normal trickle.

Um yeah, it was super bad when FB started advertising our pages for us. Like in the "more like this" category. I was managing the page of a girl who used to work for us. One of those weird situations where I didn't feel right deleting it even though she was no longer a mermaid and I was waiting to hear from her. It has NO posts since August, and it was getting 100s of new likes a week. I started experimenting with it. I blocked people in North America and made in age restrictive and sure enough it didn't even change the amount of likes that were coming in the slightest! (I did at her request delete the page, but it was interesting for the few months it was up to get some insight into it) I know when I placed my add with facebook and did a sponsored post as well through them, my most popular city turned to Turkey. But then they got rid of that feature.


If they are inactive users it doesn't matter to you does it?

Depends on how you look at it. Some people judge success by the amount of likes which is why people were paying for fake ones to begin with. Personally, I don't mind seeing my likes go down because when they do I know that 1) it's real people who are now seeing my stuff and 2) it boosts my reach. My reach with 34000 fans was only 20-50 likes on a post. Now that it's gone down I'm getting more like 50-150 likes per post and the % scene (as according to FB) goes up

HOWEVER there have been many exposes by external parties that suggest FB was benefiting greatly from the service of fake likes and I was even making money off it. But things changed when the company went public. And it does seem like they're only removing likes obtained after a certain time period. I watched other mermaids buy 100,000's of fake likes. Over night. And their like numbers are still really high now.


I hope everyone sees this thread. I've had to correct a few people already who are blindly posting that 'Facebook is deleting people from your page if they
don't interact with you' without checking into it. It took me like 2 seconds to google it to find proof that was an inaccurate statement.

Yup. people get confused because if you don't interact with a page; due to FB's algorithm, you will be less likely to see it in your news feed. Fir instance I NEVER see Iona's stuff in my news feed, or most other mermaids even though I have their pages like. but it's because I don't consistently click on things from their pages or comment/like etc. I'm super busy so I do it all in bursts and I have to navigate to their page myself to do it. I think that's what people get confused with for sure. So yeah people aren't actually losing active fans.

[Theobromine]

(Professor Farnsworth voice) Good news, everyone!