Welcome to episode 374 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris. All right, guys, it is November.
Like, for realsies. And we have the first episode of November hitting you, which means it's three things you need to know. And they're all social media focused this month. Two Facebook notes and one Instagram. I'm amped. I'm really amped. I apologize in advance for my voice. I'm getting over a cold. But the content will be good if you can just bear with the voice, all right?
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All right, so let's jump into the three things I want you to know in November about social media. Yeah? Cool? You in?
Let's do this. Number one, I did a Facebook live about this, and I'll link to it over in the show notes. But there are some newsfeed tests happening, there's also some newsfeed changes that have rolled out. Don't freak out just yet, but it does mean some changes are coming. Right now, they are testing the idea in six countries on Facebook of having two newsfeeds. One for sponsored posts from pages and stuff from your friends, also people who you have agreed to connect with one to one so to speak. So your profile connections. And then a second newsfeed that would actually be all about your pages. That would be the organic post content from pages.
Now, this has some people kind of up in a tizzy for lack of a better word in the English language, because they're freaking out that their stuff's not going to be seen. I take a little bit of an issue with that because of two things. A, Facebook has even said there are not currently any plans to roll this out globally. And B, I don't think it's a totally horrible thing if it got rolled out globally, to be honest with you. For one, I think it separates the kids from the grownups a little bit. I'll be honest with you, the people who are really serving their community and getting engagement are still going to get organic traffic. The people who are willing to invest through ads are going to see an ROI on it because that content's going to show up in the main timeline.
So I don't think it's all bad. I think it may also improve the user experience for Facebook users, which means their more apt to use platform that we're trying to market them on. There's no downside to that for us. Now, yes this will change the way we as pages show up. That's a natural part of social media. For those of you who have spent a lot of time learning Facebook, woul
