Helping Newcomers Connect to Interests. Facebook Starts Suggesting Pages to New Users. Facebook has released a new feature that automatically suggests Pages for new users to "Like.
" What's more interesting is that Facebook has placed this new functionality as the second step — second only to finding friends — in the Facebook signup process. Step 2 of 4 is called "Choose your interests," and here new Facebook members will be greeted with a selection of Pages that are suggested for them based on the Pages that people in the same demographic commonly "Like. " Pages are also selected based on how much they update and engage with Fans. The new recommended Pages feature can obviously be compared to Twitter's once-controversial "Suggested Users" list, except Facebook's suggestions are dynamic in nature.
Still, Pages gifted with the premium placement will no doubt enjoy a bevy of new Fans. Facebook Unveils One of History's Most Powerful Recommendation E. Facebook just announced the availability of a new feature for users creating accounts on the social network: Suggested Interests.
Facebook will now recommend that new users sign up for updates from ("Like") publishers with high reader engagement and subscribed-to by people demographically similar to themselves. That's a unique combination of factors that only Facebook could offer. If this intersection of 3 key social software trends is someday exposed more fully to all 500 million Facebook users and more - the Facebook vs. Google battle could become a fight between Recommendation and Search.