I honestly believe that having Facebook on your site is a subtle reminder of Facebook, which in itself is just enough to distract attention away from a site.I don't integrate it with my site very much - just have a small FB presence for my site, and have personal stuff myself on FB.
Tell you this much - some of that twitter stuff get's on my nerves, when sites automatically tweet and re-tweet the same dang news!
I disabled both my Facebook and the FB integration for this site because by it's very presence it lure's members such as myself away instead of enhancing the site as advertised.
. You embed a video, you chat, share photos, play games against one another, etc, etc. FB is to keep within the community.
You must have really poor quality content if you think that anything related to Facebook is going to make them leave to check it.I honestly believe that having Facebook on your site is a subtle reminder of Facebook, which in itself is just enough to distract attention away from a site.
You must have really poor quality content if you think that anything related to Facebook is going to make them leave to check it. As for things like Facebook connect, I think that's a very important thing, as I am certainly more likely to register to a site if I can do it one (or two) clicks, as oppose to going through the entire registration process. I also see Facebook pages as a good way to keep in touch with your members, as they may not visit your site everyday, but they certainly will visit Facebook everyday.
great post ^A good majority of research data actually tends to lean towards FB providing little to no real visitor throughput. Twitter on the other hand tends to show a lot more traffic delivery to a website than FB.
Last reading on this, which mimicked my own data, was based on the fact that FB users tend to stay in FB itself, not wander outside on links all over the web. You embed a video, you chat, share photos, play games against one another, etc, etc. Twitter however is vastly different. It is more aimed at directing people externally and keeping followers up to date on something, typically with a link to further information. Twitter culture is to divert away from Twitter to view content, FB is to keep within the community.
You're in serious denial if you believe that's why Facebook is popular. Facebooks entire build, its uniqueness to the market to capture a social space that others weren't entering at that time, ie. MySpace, its ability to allow any developer to plugin to it and make money, is what made Facebook popular. It's target audience is youth, and it went insane over years of heavy growth. Privacy is an insignificant factor of Facebook... as the majority of its target audience want everyone and anyone checking out their profile, becoming friends and meeting new people globally. Facebook does this very well with youth, and with global efficiency regardless of language barriers. Privacy is for people like me, who only use it to communicate with family over distance.What I've realized that is because Facebook is popular mostly because it can be treated as a private site for people who have their pages 'Friend's Only', they can easily hide their social activity from unwanted lurkers and their stalkers unlike on public forums.
I just looked at your website, and I wouldn't know what it even was, nor would I join it to find out because I need to track you down on the web to request an invite. I think you just killed your website to be perfectly honest by removing the ability to join. I've tested all this invite stuff in the past, and it works if invites are presented via the users to bring their friends in... not lock the site up and make it invite only. People move on. This is the web... for everyone doing something, there is always another trying to do it better.So what I learned is that by taking the same approach as facebook (making the site private and only some parts public), members have no choice but to log on to see what's going on, just like Facebook.
As it stands right now, Facebook is annoying and I'm glad I disabled my main account. Facebook is so annoying that I'm gonna remove my site's Facebook like box. Facebook is an extremely resourceful stalker tool. The amount of Facebook emails both me and my members have recieved by some annoying stalker makes your essay damn near unreadable. This dude is so annoying I'd wish he get by a truck. Had me searching up sites like http://quitstalkingme.com I will gladly and proudly take whatever negative traffic hit lame azz google throws at me if I can keep my site generally safe from annoying stalkers such as that cretin.You're in serious denial if you believe that's why Facebook is popular. Facebooks entire build, its uniqueness to the market to capture a social space that others weren't entering at that time, ie. MySpace, its ability to allow any developer to plugin to it and make money, is what made Facebook popular. It's target audience is youth, and it went insane over years of heavy growth. Privacy is an insignificant factor of Facebook... as the majority of its target audience want everyone and anyone checking out their profile, becoming friends and meeting new people globally. Facebook does this very well with youth, and with global efficiency regardless of language barriers. Privacy is for people like me, who only use it to communicate with family over distance.
People don't find Facebook via advertising, people know it exists by brand, just like they know Google exists by Brand. They're two of the globes top 10 recognised brands.
I just looked at your website, and I wouldn't know what it even was, nor would I join it to find out because I need to track you down on the web to request an invite. I think you just killed your website to be perfectly honest by removing the ability to join. I've tested all this invite stuff in the past, and it works if invites are presented via the users to bring their friends in... not lock the site up and make it invite only. People move on. This is the web... for everyone doing something, there is always another trying to do it better.
You're not Facebook, which means people don't come flocking to your website. Your forum is small and insignificant in the scheme of forums, just like my own forum is... and if it wasn't for the very sites content being public and searchable, I would have near no traffic. If people couldn't freely register and participate at their peril, there would be little to no content for Google to search, other than me posting complete nonsense, trying to make the site look busier than it actually is.
Unless your site has a billion plus visits monthly, one should not compared their site or strategy to something like Facebook IMHO.
I don't understand how you believe you did your community any justice by locking it up from Google and potential members ability to just register versus having to track you down and request a personal invite, as though they should feel privileged to be a part of your community. Facebook got away with this in the beginning due to being the only player in the market, finding a niche within the social networking niche, which introduced addictive alert techniques that psychologically played adolescence, let alone the human psyche in general.
If you believe this is the solution to boost your site, then post your traffic and posting stats now, then again in a month, and another month after that. Lets see the evidence....
What xenforo needs.its ability to allow any developer to plugin to it and make money, is what made Facebook popular.
You're not Facebook, which means people don't come flocking to your website. Your forum is small and insignificant in the scheme of forums, just like my own forum is... and if it wasn't for the very sites content being public and searchable, I would have near no traffic. If people couldn't freely register and participate at their peril, there would be little to no content for Google to search, other than me posting complete nonsense, trying to make the site look busier than it actually is.
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