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by obviouslygreen 4849 days ago
They've made a distinction between 'friends' and 'fan' etc. pages. It seems logical that providing a full/friends-only/fan-page-only set of feeds would be a good way to manage spam, with the existing ability to unsubscribe from fan/friend pages. With all the resources and experience at their disposal, you're right, it's a bit ridiculous to suggest there's no way to avoid killing usability/usefulness without satisfying both users and companies.
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cowholio4 4848 days ago
Well they do have a specific feed for pages.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/feed

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obviouslygreen 4848 days ago
Well played, Trebek.

Really, though, it's good that they have this. It'd be much better if this and a friends-only feed were the main way they distributed content.

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tedks 4848 days ago
Since I discovered that this existed, I've slowly stopped going anywhere else on Facebook. I care about new music from the bands I like on facebook far more than the mundane crap going on in my friends lives.
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