The dystopian future of businesses relying on Facebook groups

Last year “Email Players” subscriber Ian G. Howarth saw the future for Facebook group users. And, it didn't look any brighter than than it does today: ==== After all I’m hearing about Facebook threatening to close down some very big groups... I’m starting to wonder if you are psychic Ben. You literally couldn’t have picked a better time to launch SocialLair. Even support groups are gonna suffer because they talk about the subjects and use the words triggering the bots. And the lack of humans on support means groups on addiction help and groups like the ones my auntie runs for parents with autistic kids will get shut down — no questions asked. Facebook seems to be banking on marketplace. Their rules around digital products sound like ebays. No more selling of pdfs in groups. Funny how most of the stuff on the banned list can be advertised. But yeah, what timing for you guys. Most of us have kinda seen this coming but I didn’t think about how real honest support groups could suffer. Facebook will not look good if groups supporting autistic parents start getting shut down. Or any other real support group. It really does look like they’re now seeing the marketplace as their future. Yet they ran that big ad to encourage groups only months ago. Maybe it’s just groups going the same way pages went. Nothings changed for me. I see Facebook groups as a good way to build an audience with Facebooks help. Just make sure you have your own group running alongside where you do all your selling. But then Facebook will probably kill reach in groups unless you boost posts just like pages. Because all on the ban list is interestingly enough cool to advertise. Crafty bastards. === It’s astounding to me that anyone relies on Facebook at this point. But then I am biased against Facebook. So there’s that. I’m also biased towards email, too. To learn more about that particular media of choice go here: [https∶//www.EmailPlayers.com]( Ben Settle This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2021 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. Click here to [unsubscribe]( Settle, LLC PO Box 1056 Gold Beach Oregon 97444 USA