Facebook taking another step in the “wrong” direction

This concerns EVERYONE that runs a blog or other social media…..
Normally when we update the blog wordpress automatically updates our profile and pages on facebook, as it does twitter, Linkedin etc. Now the opinions on the so called cross posting are divided into several camps, against and for…. and I’m in the for camp.

Let’s be honest.
There are a lot of social media platforms and I’m a one (two if you count Annewiek) man “show” meaning I have to do all my posting and editing etc. myself. So when I can save some time that’s very very welcome. And although I absolutely love social media and sharing my work and knowledge with you guys it’s now getting a lot harder.

At first it doesn’t really sound like much.
But starting August 1st Facebook doesn’t allow ANY (yes ANY) 3rd party app to post on facebook profiles anymore, you can still post on pages but your profile from then on will be 100% manual labor, meaning that every image, tip, question, video, update, blogpost, vlog etc. etc. you now have to manually post on facebook, find an image to accompany the post, type the text and post.

Now when we do workshops for example I make BTS images and post these on Google+ because I still feel Google+ is the best platform for photographers seeing it doesn’t change your images, from Google+ it’s posted on all my social media channels with a nice text, a link and an image, that works great and it doesn’t cost me extra time. Starting August 1st every creator now has to make a decision….. do I still update my profile…. do I only use pages or….. am I willing to put a lot of extra work into posting everything separate on Facebook.

 

I have no clue why Facebook thinks this is a wise decision. People are more and more fed up with Facebook because in essence only 5-10% of what people post gets seen by their fans, I’m getting more and more adverts, the apps are buggy as heck (I’ve been trying to hide a post from my time line for 3 months now and it just doesn’t want to) and….. You know what….. I don’t even want to spend time on this anymore.

I just wanted to share this with you guys and warn my fellow creators, in case they didn’t already know, about what’s coming.
And it ain’t good……

What’s your opinion?
Is Facebook indeed trying to see how far they can go?
Or do they actually want to kill their own product? (It sure seems like it)