Social media management platform Spredfast added expanded support for post targeting for pages, which Facebook recently rolled out to pages with more than 5,000 likes.
Spredfast Adds Support For Facebook Post Targeting
Education
INFOGRAPHIC: Back To School Posts Fail On Facebook
As summer turns to fall, there’s one phrase that makes kids hide in fear: “Back to school.” Apparently, it has the same effect on Facebook. According to social software company Expion, back to school posts made by brands were liked 79 percent less than other posts.
Facebook Campaign Connects Students To Mars
Although most of us probably won’t step foot on Mars, one Facebook campaign is utilizing the red planet and the social network to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. Through Raytheon Company’s Mission to Mars, students can explore the planet virtually and interact with Facebook to earn grants.
Facebook Confirms Targeted Page Posts
Facebook officially confirmed reports earlier this week that page administrators can now target their page posts by various criteria, and not just location and language.
Facebook Rolling Out Enhanced Page Post Targeting
Facebook page administrators will soon be able to target their posts by various criteria, with the feature reportedly rolled out to some pages already, a marketer who was briefed by a Facebook representative told sister blog Inside Facebook.
INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook Sharing Habits, U.S. Vs. Europe
Online reputation-management company Secure.me examined some 1 million Facebook profiles to determine sharing habits and how they compared between the U.S. and Europe.
Student Suspended For Fake Suicide On Facebook
A high school student who created a fake Facebook page and video of a fictitious girl who was bullied on her Facebook page and commits suicide was suspended from school for five days.
Facebook, Edutopia Team Up On ‘How To Create Social Media Guidelines For Your School’
The use of Facebook among teachers and students has made the news quite often of late, usually not in a good way, but Facebook is looking to help change that by teaming up with Edutopia, an initiative created by The George Lucas Educational Foundation, on “How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School.”
NYC Teachers Can’t Friend Students On Facebook
New guidelines were released by the New York City Department of Education that define how teachers can and cannot use Facebook and other social networks.
School Makes 12-Year-Old Surrender Facebook Password
A female student in the Minnewaska school district in Minnesota who has a Facebook page despite being one year under the social network’s age limit was hauled into a meeting with a school counselor and a deputy sheriff and pressured into surrendering her passwords for Facebook and email.
