10/17/2026
Not really farm related, but wanting to share some info here with our followers. I know we don’t share a lot of links on our page, so it hasn’t impacted us a lot (yet). However, as a consumer we have seen it on many other pages. You know… the whole annoying “comment below and we will message you the link” deal. I thought it was just the newest ploy to get more followers, more AI generated inbox messages. Nope… What’s driving that is Facebook wanting to charge businesses to be able to post links on their page. Yes, even in the comments!! Some of my favorite pages for recipes and such post a link daily - according to the new rules, they would have to pay Facebook $499 a month to continue to do that. So… they send it in a message.
Honestly, our page here has mostly just been informative. I don’t post often, mostly because I don’t think about it much. It hasn’t generated much, if any business. The majority of our website business comes from Google. We attempted to use meta’s merchant account and tie it to our website, but there were always too many glitches to work through and we gave it up.
All that to say, if you are also annoyed with pages asking you comment for a link, at least you now know it’s not their fault. It will be interesting to see how businesses respond. Will many walk away from Facebook? What are your thoughts??