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Why Facebook has probably jumped the gun with the fan pages

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Facebook is incrementally trying to elicit more money from its user base. This is fine and natural for a business entity. So it started free, than it had groups, than fan pages and so on. At those times everyone was born equal, each message, either coming from one’s own friends, groups or Fan Pages appeared on one’s wall. So Facebook easily persuaded enterprises to collect users in their pages so that they could be kept up to date to what they were doing. Perhaps letting them think that upon paying Facebook to get them, they would be theirs as if they had joined a newsletter. Right? WRONG!
Step by step Facebook started to devalue this asset, first by not allowing the owner to send email to them, then to even not allowing her to know the identities  of the subscribers so that to reach them you had to pay Facebook again! That would have looked enough to normal, I would not say Arian, people, not to risk to be considered racist instead of discriminated.
Instead what 
Mr. Zuckerberg took out of his hat? Messages from the Fan pages no longer show on the subscribers’ walls!
Basically you have expensively acquired users hoping to easily reach them and instead now they turn into generic users, perhaps just a little profiled from the fact they already joined the page before, 
if ever they remind it!
All in all there is no longer any meaning in attracting users to a Fan Page, as incrementally enterprises are starting to discover. Possibly in this way exhausting one of the main revenue bases for Mr. Zuckerberg, also currently going easily shopping around. The feeling is one of Doom and Gloom, but we will see.

In the meantime I thought wise to open this blog and forget the Facebook page, but for being a repository, along with twitter, of the contents of this blog. And I hope you will also appreciated this decision.
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