After 30 days of testing three channel types side by side, it is clear that Facebook has shifted to a TikTok-style discovery engine. The test lineup covered:
- Personal profile: Packed with real friends and long-time connections.
- Existing Fanpage: A community between 5,000 and 100,000 followers.
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Brand new page: Just launched with zero
followers.
Across all three, the same pattern emerged: Facebook now prioritizes content that keeps people engaged over the size of your existing audience.
1. Facebook no longer prioritizes your followers
The follower-based distribution era is gone. Instead of automatically showing your post to 10 to 20 percent of your friends or followers, Facebook now evaluates interest signals first. If you publish content about weight loss, it reaches people already immersed in that topic, even if they have never heard of you. Meanwhile, inactive followers effectively become dead reach. That is why creators with massive pages can now see fewer views than a brand new profile that nails audience interest.
2. Outdated, boring content gets punished
Facebook is rewarding content that stops the scroll. Posts that hold attention with stories, insights, or tension get lifted, while traditional ads, link drops, and repetitive pitches sink. The metric that matters is how long people linger. Every additional second is a positive signal because Facebook only wins when the user keeps scrolling inside the app.
3. What creators and business owners should do right now
- Create content that forces a pause. Address what your audience wants, needs, or is actively searching for. Use sharp hooks such as “The truth about...,” “99% of people get this wrong,” or “The story of how I almost went broke.”
- Tell stories before you sell. People tune out hard sells, but pay attention to real journeys. Share failures, comebacks, and lessons. Let the offer appear as the natural conclusion to the story.
- Build a community, not just a feed. Comment, reply, DM, and create spaces where conversation continues. Capture leads into your own pond so the relationship continues beyond the newsfeed.
4. Facebook is “forcing” everyone to create so it can profit from views
Meta is gamifying creation with Rising Creator badges, weekly rewards, ranks, missions, and levels. The objective is simple: make you publish more so users stay longer and generate more ad inventory. The platform pays you up front, but it earns far more on the back end. Stay strategic, stay diversified.
5. Traffic is like a school of fish — it never stays in one place
Today's viral hit becomes tomorrow's forgotten post. If you are not moving traffic into owned assets like Zalo, email, groups, or your CRM, you are feeding someone else's pond. Capture attention while you have it and redirect it to channels you control.
6. The long-term strategy: Build your own pond
Treat your content as the doorway, not the destination. Behind every post should be an ecosystem: a lead list, a private community, a signature offer. With that structure in place, you survive platform outages, algorithm shifts, and pay cuts.
Facebook has become a full algorithm battlefield where smart, story-driven content wins. The enduring playbook is simple: create magnetic content, pull traffic into your own pond, and convert that attention into long-term assets for your business.