If I hadn't wanted updates from the people, places and businesses that I Liked on Facebook, I wouldn't have clicked Like in the first place.
Facebook, apparently, doesn't agree.
Just in time for taking its stock public, Facebook has decided that it's time for bloggers, fan pages and brands to start paying to make sure they appear in their followers' news feeds.
This means that sites like Mommy Poppins and others you Like may have suddenly disappeared from your feed, making it tougher to keep up with breaking news like cool last-minute events and unexpected cancellations. Or our updates may simply get buried below notifications Facebook has decided you'd prefer to see.
Personally, I like to make those kinds of decisions myself. And the best way to make that happen is to go to your favorite Facebook pages and activate the Show In News Feed option. Never fear, you don't have to figure out how to do that yourself: Cool Mom Tech walks you through the process, step by step.
Alina Adams
Alina Adams - NYC Writer
Alina was born in the former Soviet Union, spent her teen years in San Francisco, and came to New York City to work for ABC Daytime and ABC Sports. She spent her pre-marriage/pre-kid years as a figure-skating researcher and producer for the U.S. and World Championships, the 1998 Olympics in Nagano and various professional shows.
After learning that international travel and resentful toddlers don’t mix, she switched to PGP Productions and its soap operas As the World Turns and Guiding Light, where she wrote New York Times best-selling tie-in books and developed interactive properties like AnotherWorldToday.com.
The birth of her third child (and the process of enrolling her two older kids into NYC schools—a full-time job in itself!) convinced Alina that she was not, in fact, Superwoman, and prompted her to leave TV and turn to writing books, including romance novels (Counterpoint: An Interactive Family Saga, When a Man Loves a Woman), figure-skating mysteries (Murder on Ice, On Thin Ice) and nonfiction (Soap Opera 451: A Time Capsule of Daytime Drama’s Greatest Moments).
In addition to contributing to Mommy Poppins, Alina blogs for Jewish parenting site Kveller.com and is in the process of turning her previously published backlist into enhanced e-books with multimedia features like audio, video and more. Follow her exhaustive and exhausting efforts to become a Mommy Media Mogul (is that a thing? If it isn’t, it really should be) at AlinaAdams.com and on Google+
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