Here is my frustration, and I’d love your thoughts — I have 10,000+ friends and followers here, who presumably would like to hear from me occasionally. Facebook wants me to pay to boost posts, so these days, it shows very few of my posts to very few people. (I mean, I get it, they want to actually make money off this thing, but I don’t really have that money to spend, so…)
One option: I think I could use the everyone tag to tag all of y’all. (Does that work for regular feed posts, or just within groups? I’m not sure.) That seems deeply annoying, especially if I were using it multiple times / day. Yes, you can turn off the everyone tag, so you stop getting those notifications, but not everyone knows that.
I could encourage people to sign up for my e-mail newsletter, and then when I have something biggish to announce — a monthly sale, or a book coming out, or a set of events, I could send it to the newsletter. Of course, many of us are drowning in e-mail, and such newsletters may be directed automatically to spam, or just ignored in the deluge.
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I was thinking that it might not be unreasonable to do this:
Do a single post, using the everyone tag. In that post, I’d include four things:
- tell people how to turn off the tag, in case they don’t want to get tagged like that again
- invite people to sign up for my e-mail newsletter, which goes out about once / quarter right now, but might be more like once / month in the future
- ask people to let me know if they’d like to be tagged into:
- flash sales?
- new book releases?
- public Chicagoland events I’m hosting?
- public online events I’m hosting?
- remind people to follow the Speculative Literature Foundation page if they want to hear about SLF grants and programs
What do y’all think? Terrible idea to use that tag one time? Helpful? Too irritating?
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(Random pics for algorithm — some cute winter holiday minis in my glass terrarium table.)
