Okay, I have an issue and want to know if other people feel the same way or if I'm just being a big ol' misery lol! Here's the thing... I have a Facebook page for my business where I do all the usual Facebook stuff and welcome both private individuals and other businesses to interact and say hello. Networking is good and I love to do it, on that I'm clear! However, I have noticed a bit of a growing trend for people to visit me and take out half page adverts on my space without bothering to engage with me or anything on my page at all. Not even a 'hello'. Sometimes they will qualify their presence with the fact that they are from Etsy, but then proceed to do a full paragraph write up on their business, sometimes followed by a large image of one of their items. This is where I start to get irritated. I know we all need to help each other out with exposure and I am usually quite happy for someone to visit and post a greeting line or two from their shop name with a link to their page. I even regularly pick and promote items I like from other sellers on my page. But I've had days when my own posts are being driven off my own wall by people taking up half a screen of space. I've even had people tagging me in pictures of their stock so that it will come up on my photos page. This just feels like spam...well no, it doesn't feel like spam, it IS spam!! I have taken to deleting offending posts, which I always feel bad about because I know we are all in the same boat trying to make something work, on the other hand I feel irritated that I'm having to spend my time doing that. How do other people feel about this kind of thing? Is there some kind of common etiquette about what's acceptable in this area? How do others deal with this issue? Am I just being an old misery (no don't answer that :D!!)?
