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It seems most people are not aware that tagging someone as present with you basically posts to their timeline and expands the viewership of your post to whatever the settings are of all the tag-ees.

We want to talk privacy with Mark Zuckerberg as well. We put a $2.5k bounty on it: https://businessleads.com/post/592-Mark-Zuckerberg-Wed-Like-...

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One thing I detest about HN is the amount of shameless social media advertising that people spam. It dilutes word of mouth and makes social media a less interesting platform to learn about new products and services. If you want to advertise then pay for it like everyone else.

Users are given lower-class features than pages/brands, unfortunately. For pages, you can see how many people see your posts; for users, you have to do the math yourself. Users can select how much of another user's posts they see (most important | all | only important), whereas users can only turn page updates on or off.

I wonder if people would post differently if they saw how quickly their posts propagated through Facebook when people like and comment their public posts, or when people are tagged in their photos.

Right. For brands it encourages them to see those numbers. If it doesn't, it encourages them to sponsor stories. For users it's more likely to have them taking a look at their privacy settings and locking stuff down.

This tactic is used more and more by people as a method of marketing too. It's annoying.

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