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Personal page on Facebook has no meaning
Why Facebook`s "subscribe" button is the biggest thing since "pages"
Technical news about changes from Facebook is many and I devote little time on them as it is`s not my field. Technical changes that I see as changes in the structure of how people communicate on the other hand - is my field. With this new feature, Facebook has managed to take a big bite into both Twitter's main concept and not at least Google +. That is to following people. Following others, whether it's your neighbor or a colleague.
This has been the main difference between Twitter and Facebook. Twitter is all about strangers, they do not know one another and dont`care. It`s the content that counts. It's the quick first impressions of a profile photo and a few sentences about themselves that determine whether one adopts enough interest to follow them. Now one could take that same look of the profiles on Facebook and then make the same choice.
This allows everyone to expand their networks on Facebook regardless of whether it`s a contact they have in their network from beforehand. (At least if you're like yours truly that have as a principle not to approve friend requests you have not met face to face) but it will lead to more people clicking the request button and send a friend request as a result of the new feature. The longer you follow a person with the new subscribe button, the closer you feel to the person and that you know the person. And as you know: the more people that are friends with each other, the more traffic to Facebook. Meaning more income to them. (and they deserve every penny!)
This new feature is huge! We may not see it overnight, but the path Facebook is now taking and going in a direction of being the ultimate social media site for the future aswell.
Competitors or entrepreneurs who have been walking around with similar ideas of new features not found on Facebook has more or leas had their idea destroyed overnight. (And there are many).
Even us that have made our own personal "page" now has a page that has lost it`s meaning. I made a personal page first and foremost to have a place to refer friend requests I did not know who was. Now they can regardless of my excepting or not follow the updates I choose to have public and comment on them if they wish. (Just like on a personal page)
