PLEASE NOTE: I will now return to science videos. I posted this video here because when I observe a blatant disregard for the truth I have to do something. I hope to prevent people from having the same experience I did.

@pewnit

9 жыл бұрын

***** lol, i do not see the id part on fb

@NoobTube4148

9 жыл бұрын

I have a suspicion that those countries you mentioned are very likely to have machines that are part of botnets - due to illegal copies of windows and not using proper anti-virus software.

@gnsdfkjgnsfkjgsfioh

9 жыл бұрын

Veritasium i genuinely like this video and Veritasium :P

@poonamvhemlani

9 жыл бұрын

Veritasium President Barack Obama kzread.info/dash/bejne/ippnzsywpdrXl5s.html

@Vathorst2

9 жыл бұрын

***** Cool, was mine in there? I dont use facebook.

Really fantastic video, Derek! It's frustrating to know how little FB cares about its users.

@Saffreuge

7 жыл бұрын

three years in, and G+ is full of crickets

@deebmonkey23

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was wrong.

@Dailybaring

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Spinney are you still there?

@denitajohnson8245

5 жыл бұрын

Learn something new about Facebook everyday!

@AdrieKooijman

3 жыл бұрын

It's shocking how little users care.

This definitely aged well.

@aracoixo3288

3 жыл бұрын

🍷

@profile1157

2 жыл бұрын

@@aracoixo3288 like wine

@oliveiraoliveira6035

2 жыл бұрын

brasil aqui. definitivamente o veritasium é o melhor canal de ciencia desde dos primordios do youtube. saudaçoes aos fans, ao derek e a todos que sobreviveram ate aqui em 2021. longa vida o canal! FORA BOLSONARO!

@profile1157

2 жыл бұрын

@@oliveiraoliveira6035 blah blah blah

@lonesome3958

2 жыл бұрын

Even better now

well looks like mr zuckey never fails to disappoint me every time

@magics902

3 жыл бұрын

The saddest thing is this is from 2014. And yet this is exactly how it works in 2021 still.

@williamhuang8309

3 жыл бұрын

Mr Suckey

@ThomasJr

2 жыл бұрын

Who, Dorkberg?

@ThomasJr

2 жыл бұрын

Mark Zuccsucks

@pyotrtchaikovsky9097

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Mind blowing. When someone says something is a "fraud" I don't expect much, but in this case it was a legit demonstration.

@charlesleight5741

3 жыл бұрын

Denison Moutinho darla

I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh . But i am a real fan of Veritasium

@oitagged

8 жыл бұрын

same here :v however, from chittagong :p although i never knew there was a facebook page o.O :D

@xXx0dNgRs0xXx

8 жыл бұрын

u have internet there ? lol

@xXx0dNgRs0xXx

8 жыл бұрын

Raihan Rana based on reciprocity

@crazysikhguy2369

7 жыл бұрын

I'm Indian and I am legitimately interested in the page

@glenn2687

7 жыл бұрын

i'm from the philippines but i am genuinely interested in science content.

It's 2021. Facebook hasn't still fixed it. I run a FaceBook based science group and a page. Frustated for the same reason. Huge follower base, little to no engagement.

@LevelofClarity

2 жыл бұрын

I’m with you. Same problem. The only way to generate any significant amount of engagement is by paying large sums of money. It’s messed up.

@danarzechula3769

2 жыл бұрын

Thank the government. Why do you think zuckie went to the white house?0

@LevelofClarity

2 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Duran You could definitely create a new account, start from scratch, and only advertise to a very specific demo, which would likely alleviate the majority of the issue. The problem for a business like ours is that we've had this page for the last 12 years and starting a new page would be pretty rough. However, if you had another brand or something you probably could go this route.

@juliecostello42

2 жыл бұрын

I've been pointing this out for about 6 years now, good to see an insider who is willing to display the analytical data behind the promotional frauds and data collection being resold to companies to generate revenue and ruin lives in the name of capitalism or consumerism or both.

@SimBir08

2 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Duran You could make your own website, most ISP's provide webspace. Even the most basic of websites will give you what facebook offers. Just add a link to your facebook page and once you have enough interest in your site you can drop facebook altogether.

I am austrian and right now I am very proud of my folks :D

@nostalji75

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who sees nationality very critically I have to admit and agree with a villain: "Fun isn’t something one considers when balancing the universe, but this does put a smile on my face."

@goldemordx3599

2 жыл бұрын

Fellow Austrian here... I'm very late to the party but still... yey 👍🏽 go us 😅🇦🇹

@000blackmage000

2 жыл бұрын

Send kangroos bro.

@MorteJachwe

2 жыл бұрын

@@000blackmage000 Schwarzenegger, not crocodile dundee ;)

@niklashitzinger2285

2 жыл бұрын

wir han einfach schlauer

It's 2019 and facebook still does this. I just tested this this week

@jazzperbeats

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if they also do it for other ads.

@EagleTheGames

4 жыл бұрын

2020 now and it's still the same

@2028end

4 жыл бұрын

yup, I'm beginning to see Facebook advertising is just one big scam!

@xKyriakoZ

4 жыл бұрын

2020

@bubbuddy986

4 жыл бұрын

Yusuph Wickama hi

"US State Department paid $630,000 to acquire 2M fans." The bureaucracy is at it again.

@andrewrichmond85

5 жыл бұрын

I might genuinely like the State Department if they could get my passport to me in a timely manner! I hate to hear they wasted that much money.

@janosk8392

5 жыл бұрын

Can you verify that statement?

@jpmorgan187

5 жыл бұрын

Disgusting use of tax dollars. Tip of the iceberg though.

@vaisnow

4 жыл бұрын

Tax money in action, people

@ixlnxs

4 жыл бұрын

The world's biggest running joke is how the USA always accuses all the other developed countries of being "socialist" and "inefficient" while wildly outspending the rest of the globe, but with very little to show for it other than the worst public health care, the worst public transport, and the worst public education of all developed countries.

Hi, Love and greetings from India. I watch your KZread posts and eagerly wait for the next. Seriously I go through your uploads repeatedly if the topic is difficult. I am 48 by now and your posts reminds me of my school days. I thank you for your excellent and explanatory videos.

Kudos to you Derek! You always live up to your channel's name. Hats off for standing up to Goliath!

here's a real like from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

@AdamRiz

5 жыл бұрын

✋

@rakibshah

5 жыл бұрын

চট্টগ্রাম থেকে ভাই 😴✋

@fumifoficial8338

5 жыл бұрын

244 likes and only 3 comments..., suspecious...

@rubaiyatmehedi9337

5 жыл бұрын

@@fumifoficial8338 here, another one.

@huseyinkoroglu7039

5 жыл бұрын

@@fumifoficial8338 ara

I work at a click farm.

@MertyShangoOfficial

8 жыл бұрын

dope

@aikslf

8 жыл бұрын

I plant mouse seeds.

@DirpyTurtle

8 жыл бұрын

+ɐᴉdoʇoʞsooʞ can I buy a steel series seed?

@aikslf

8 жыл бұрын

Dirpy Turtle No. When the mice grow, they auto-click on whatever you tell them to.

@RGlynix

8 жыл бұрын

best farm

Here is a genuine subscriber from *INDIA* 🙌 . Facebook is widely used here by mostly illiterate people, Instagram is also trending from last 2 years. I deleted my Instragram account last year to focus more on good content provided by you and others like you.

It's not just Facebook doing this, but also Google (and I'm pretty sure everyone else). A year ago I spent 100$ to promote videos on my channel. 50$ on one particular video and the rest on the others. I've got 3000 views on one video and 4000 on the others. Despite targeting the audience that I know would like my videos, people didn't watch it for more than 30 seconds, less than a percent of all people that watched my videos were engaged, and the most importantly most of the traffic came from Vietnam and India. 100$ are just wasted.

I deleted my Facebook account recently. It's just full of spam on your wall nowadays and I can't be bothered with it any more. Note also facebook only paying £4300odd in tax last year which is actually less than I pay in tax and yet my salary isn't anywhere near as high as Facebooks revenue. The whole company is Fraudulent.

@Murph1989sean

8 жыл бұрын

+geetarwanabe Not trying to start anything but your comment brings up an interesting question: How much in taxes should a US based internet company pay the UK? Or any other country for that matter? Likewise, how much money should a UK website pay the US Gov in taxes for its use.

@ianjackson9852

8 жыл бұрын

+Sean Murphy I think he means the total value, not in that currency to the country where that currency is established (Facebook pays less than 4300 pounds worth, in dollars, to the US government.)

@geetarwanabe

8 жыл бұрын

Ian Jackson Not quite, Ian. Facebook paid approx £4300 (British pounds) to the UK government last year. Sean Murphy I'd say if you have a base of operations within any border and/or operate a business where financial exchanges occur and you make money from said country then you should pay the commercial tax set by that country, at least on the monies accrued within said country. Facebook had revenues within the UK of over £100 million but paid only £4200 in UK tax because they technically operated at a loss. They operated at a loss because they offered a £28million bonus scheme for their 300odd staff inside the UK by giving them shares. The capital of the company was still the same but on the books they were operating at a loss. Or, in other words, they were fraudulent in their business acumen to trick their way into paying less corporate tax and maximising the companies profits.

@ianjackson9852

8 жыл бұрын

geetarwanabe I don't know much about taxes; I thought that Facebook paid taxes only to the country it is based in (US). Thanks for explaining that money was made in the UK and that they only paid 4300 pounds to the UK, not the US (as I assumed).

@dieselscience

8 жыл бұрын

+geetarwanabe I'm not trying to one-up you but I deleted my FB almost three years ago. I began to realize if I am not paying to advertise a product or being paid for product advertisements I *am* the advertised product and I am not being compensated. I don't do pro bono work for billion dollar multinational corporations like FB.

The dislikes are from Facebook. I'm a real fan of Veritasium from India, by the way.

@ViratKohli-jj3wj

4 жыл бұрын

कैसे हो भाई

@ViratKohli-jj3wj

4 жыл бұрын

या बहन

@interlucid

4 жыл бұрын

but Facebook doesn't believe in dislikes!

@unrealpigzgaming8014

4 жыл бұрын

@@interlucid what about dis-i-likes?

@ronnierouse1146

3 жыл бұрын

Facebook should be destroyed. Anything that's good about it a clone-site would accomplish better, without the bottomless greed.

meanwhile, its 2020 and the ***show continues. Found this channel while on a knowledge rampage and this really nice. keep up the good work.

Man I really love your videos, they are an inspiration for me. Love the part "And that's not my just opinion" It says it in the bio "That I created" too funny

4:11 Next up, engagement farms!

@Suldok

9 жыл бұрын

Marshall Curtis lol

@ScienceMarc

8 жыл бұрын

That would technically solve the problem

@KungFuChess

8 жыл бұрын

+Marshall Curtis those already exist in Las Vegas

@Snyper20

8 жыл бұрын

+AndreT Cool, I'll get to work as soon as I deposit your check for the first 40 hours ;) Just send it to me now and I'll get back to you within a few business days.

@AkshayShukla.

2 жыл бұрын

They exist currently. On KZread and Instagram. I have seen bulks of copy paste comments on posts, who say "I love this man, he is so hardworking" on every video.

So nice to finally hear someone talking about this, Im in the same boat spent 100$ of dollars on ads to build up my page but the reach and engagement is now stone dead...

@AlexAlexanderLIVE

7 жыл бұрын

Hahaha well i actually have a V-neck t shirt under there but its a cropped shot...

@dropj3

7 жыл бұрын

Alex Alexander like your reaction :).. always nice to see when someone has a sense of humor

@mycelium9629

6 жыл бұрын

70th like!

@nazzbuzztutorials9256

6 жыл бұрын

TODAY IS 2018.. AND I ONLY RECEIVE BOT LIKES

@cymond

2 жыл бұрын

@@nazzbuzztutorials9256 I AM NOT A BOT ::beep boop::

this still holds up 8 years later, and not just for Facebook

I am Austrian! Proud to see that your page gets so much attention in our country🙏🏼

what if we just all stopped using facebook because it's terrible

@ZER0--

8 жыл бұрын

+Honest Tech Reviews Then it would fail.

@lukesamconnorvideos

8 жыл бұрын

Paul L that's the point

@karlandersson4350

8 жыл бұрын

+Honest Tech Reviews But where would i go to spy on my friends hot friends with big boobs then?

@NikolayVityazev

8 жыл бұрын

+Honest Tech Reviews I stopped to use facebook seven years ago. But haven't deleted account, just in case.

@amisfitpuivk

8 жыл бұрын

done. But there's always more kids going to college and signing up, so it probably won't work

You know what draws real Facebook engagements? 1: Directed anger towards a common enemy or becoming the enemy 2: Echo chambers for fans of popular things and people with an interspersion of controversy so they react hastily

@warpspeed8305

4 жыл бұрын

So posting this video on facebook

@alice_in_wonderland42

3 жыл бұрын

Controversy generates clicks, ask Quora they know it better.

@shifa-8423

3 жыл бұрын

ㅤ

@cinegraphics

3 жыл бұрын

So, posts about Lewis Hamilton :)

@chertfoot1500

2 жыл бұрын

@@alice_in_wonderland42 Quora kicked me off for having a fake name. Soon after, they started recruiting me to be a Big Quora Dude or whatever they call it, saying I could be making money with them.

While this video is dated, it's absolutely priceless for small business owners.

A little late, but here's a genuine like from India. 😬 Ironically the youtube ad before this video started was titled "facebook page growth" 😆

@reecheshjchhaya5927

2 жыл бұрын

Ironically 😂🤣🙏💐

@splendor10

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

fakebook is a wart on the internet's ass that we can't get rid of.

@jater10

6 жыл бұрын

No business is secure in the market forever. See what's going on with Sears these days. Facebook is big, so was MySpace before it.

@thomaswanado8744

6 жыл бұрын

Facebook will eventually go down the toilet where it belongs.

I actually went to Virtual Cat to like the page lol.

@flubs2298

8 жыл бұрын

You're ruining the experiment!

@aexon9707

8 жыл бұрын

+Pie Empire the experiment is kinda over.

@flubs2298

8 жыл бұрын

Aexon Not really, he can go back to it for more data at any time.

@aexon9707

8 жыл бұрын

Pie Empire by publishing the video he knows people will go like it.

@manictiger

8 жыл бұрын

11,630 likes We could say... The cat is out of the bag.

Amusingly, the ad at the very end of the video begins "Do you want to grow your Facebook page?"

“Here’s Egypt” *BOUNG*

This makes me even happier that I'm not on Facebook

@petriheil8543

7 жыл бұрын

I mistrusted facebook from their very beginnings (even though it originally had a community oriented aura)but especially since they went on the stockmarket. Individuals are not users, they are simply apromising market segment with a value. Facebook has no community spirit, no matter how grand Mr. Zuckerbergs pretentions or donations. I am glad I don`t use any of FB or WhatsApp services, I am glad I have only few friends (on whom I can count).

@JonatasAdoM

7 жыл бұрын

Whatsapp is a mean of communication like other programs, PEOPLE turn it into a social network thing. About Facebook after Google's Orkut I became aware of the reality and just refused to use facebook. Guess I was right.

@silentios7336

7 жыл бұрын

My Mother always told me that you can not trust a jew.

@fahadsaleem3742

7 жыл бұрын

What do you use then?

@shieldgenerator7

7 жыл бұрын

Fahad Saleem email

Im from austria and i feel honoured, i love your videos;)

@veritasium

9 жыл бұрын

I am the one who is honoured! Thanks for your support!

@RiaRadioFMHD773

9 жыл бұрын

Veritasium And I thought their "privacy policy" was shadey. The root of much evil is not money BUT the adoration of it. This abnormal affection for profit has the potential to cause some corporations to do what many will think of as immoral and unethical. Money can also be a voice for consumers. If we actively restrict our purchases to companies with merit, those without it will receive the message LOUD and clear.

@NineSun001

9 жыл бұрын

Veritasium Yes, got also mentioned (Germany) :) Which countries are the two dots between Germany and Austria? But the Austria dot is nice. So If a facebook site ever gets likes from Austria they've made it :)

@KVKBaraniPrasath

9 жыл бұрын

manas tiwari I know that feeling my fellow Indian :P

@FirebladeXXL

9 жыл бұрын

Nico Sänger not necessarily. who sais austrians like every stuff the same. maybe they just like science and truth :D

Well done !! Pedagogy about how social networks thrive is more than needed.

I really enjoyed this video and this question is unrelated but I have to ask, now that I've heard it several separate times, what is the song playing at the end of this video? The one that samples the Firefight drums from Halo: Reach. Those drums are also in KH2. That one. What's up with this loop.

So i come to realize face book was a complete waste of my time. It adds no valve at all. I thought I deleted my account ages ago but turned out it was only disabled. If you really want to delete the account it's hidden in some random section on the web site (I had to, Google how to permanently delete it). Face book is a unhealthy addiction and only cares how it can make money out of its users

@sujanaryal833

5 жыл бұрын

Apparently even that won’t delete it permanently and can still be reactivated

@ankurghosh2387

4 жыл бұрын

Or apparently your data isn't deleted at all. Might have been sold...

@bulldozer8950

4 жыл бұрын

Can you link to how to delete it? I wasn’t able to find any way to delete it

@ViratKohli-jj3wj

4 жыл бұрын

@@bulldozer8950 there is no Way to delete facebook :(

@theatom7264

4 жыл бұрын

It used to be a good way of keeping in touch with friends & family & a way to get news from various interests but now its mostly just a cesspit of ads & spambots. Been with Facebook for over 10 years but now I’m close to closing my account & quitting it all together. I’m only really using it to back up & save mobile game data on some games I play on my phone.

Pretty much every social network has a problem with fake engagements, but this video shows how bad it can be on Facebook.

@RuslanGolenkovPhotography

10 жыл бұрын

And i wondered why i have so many likes from Middle East and i never targeted my adverts to that region.

KZread is guilty of the same thing, I've experienced. A few years ago I got some google ad credit and used it to promote a YT video of mine. It got my video about 3,000 views, but there were MAYBE 3 comments and very few likes. And I had targeted people who were fans of similar channels and videos so I knew it should be reaching legitimate people

I am not a youtube robot (or am I?) but I must emphasise how much I enjoy your work. Thanks for offering us so much knowledge in fun interesting videos. Great entertainment that tickles my brain...

I've been telling my clients for YEARS not to pay any attention to the number of "likes" on their pages but to focus instead on genuine engagement as the metric for success. Instead I've had lots of clients become disenchanted with the slow process and instead pay for the types of ads Derek talks about in this video, only to see their engagement go down afterwards and the ROI looks terrible and then they fire me as their consultant. I'm glad Derek went through and really laid out the better argument so I can point people to this video each time a client of mine wants to "speed things up." Social media is a long-haul game, when you try to get around the long trek you lose.

@RobertJones

10 жыл бұрын

Tagging some folks I think should watch this: HaldeCraft ***** ***** Nikki Baulisch

@MichaelADiMuccio

10 жыл бұрын

The future of social media and business is with a start up called tictalking. Here corporations are able to leverage social media, directing users back to their own websites and more importantly collect the analytics to provide better content.

facebook should call it Li(k)es

@manuelromeiro7529

5 жыл бұрын

Deixe book.com

@Ag89q43G0HyA

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@shahirmabsur

5 жыл бұрын

14 y/o girl: *crying noises*

@crescendus5747

5 жыл бұрын

K

@Shadoufang

4 жыл бұрын

Heeeheee :'D It's right in there, you just have to look closer :'D niiice

I know this is an old video, but there is actually another reason why click farms click other ads. Some companies pay for that, so that the ads from their competitors go nowhere. I only know that because I had a friend who engaged with that to promote his local store, it can lead to a legitimate business being spammed with bots and click farms even though they never did.

Respect and Real Like From Dhaka, Bangladesh living in the USA. Love what you doing. Dude my brother you got the balls to pick fight with the Giant of the internet. I am throwing in my full support for you and your cause......RESPECT

Always been wary of Facebook advertising, this video confirmed my suspicions!

Sure wish I would have found this before spending $100's. I'm giving away a $200 gift certificate to my webstore and paid to boost the ad. I've gotten thousands of views and hundreds of likes and NONE of them have signed up to the giveaway. I wish someone would start a class-action suit against Facebook. How is this not fraud???? It's been 4 years since this video was made and it's STILL happening.

@TG-fh7mc

5 жыл бұрын

Someone start it? You are someone yourself, aren't you?

@hubbcap18

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mathijs303 we've reached 2020 with no end in....sight

@Maussiegamer

4 жыл бұрын

can I still join giveaway?

Watchin it from Dhaka,Bangladesh & Nothing has changed till now👽

Hey, I'm from Indonesia and I genuinely love this channel.

Facebook sucks big time, end of discussion!

@cgg3169

7 жыл бұрын

Tomnedreb I agree why do gets addicted to it!!??

@TheAnantaSesa

6 жыл бұрын

Stop undermining OP's statement. the discussion is over. And you have the gaul to ask questions.

@TheAnantaSesa

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@igornowicki29

6 жыл бұрын

heroin too, but you won't end addiction just by saying that

@arbozaliyan

6 жыл бұрын

#Tomnedreb That depends on how you use facebook; I used to use to organize students back in college and I used to use it to connect all my kin. Orginizing students was a great success, I banned everyone who trolled around but when it came to the my kin, well you can't stop your grandma from trolling or posting. It was a disaster. Everyday there was like thousands of posts. There were like 200 people in that page but it was too caotic. I think you need to be more selective when forming any kind of social structure on any social portal.

lol I'm your real fan from Dhaka, Bangladesh

@abdelkarim8381

5 жыл бұрын

Well this is awkward! lmao

@r1zwxn

5 жыл бұрын

Same 🤣

@sunny-hn9ug

5 жыл бұрын

same bro...

@humanbeing499

5 жыл бұрын

PLEASE REPORT MISSWILDFIRE page ON FACEBOOK!!! HELPPPP I knew the facebook page and their website seemed a bit fishy but all my friends decided to order anyway and the total amount spent by them was probably over 1k or 2k dollars. I just feel so bad for them because when they initially contacted the website and the facebook page no one replied but the payments looked very safe and verified so they trusted it and ordered anyway and now they haven't received their products for over a month, no one has contacted them, no one has replied to any of their emails or messages yet, no tracking number, no confirmation, NOTHING. Also I've noticed they've been constantly deleting any comments on their facebook page that looks bad for them. If they have time to delete bad facebook comments then why not have the time to reply to at least one of us!!

10 years from this video, I hope they changed something

I'm from Dhaka, Bangladesh. And this is actually funny to see my country getting mentioned so many times (More precisely my city). lol.

@arghyabiswas9855

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah lmao

WHY IS THERE A -5 ON THE ENGAGEMENT CHART THEY ENGAGE SO LITTLE THEY ANTIENGAGE

@Djorgal

7 жыл бұрын

What? Of course they did. They made a lot of changes in order to make sure it isn't cross compatible with any free alternative. Isn't that improvement?

@martinnimcevic8197

6 жыл бұрын

excel is free if you have a VPN

@Sacchidanand

6 жыл бұрын

Martin Nimcevic, what? VPN? 😅

@borekworek69

6 жыл бұрын

? Virtual Private Network??

@itsokbyharsaaj8020

6 жыл бұрын

lol they engagen't

I left facebook a long time ago. It's completely useless.

@Notjobincome

8 жыл бұрын

Not really, you will have to optimize your ad like testing different pages, ages, countries. It took me $600 to test certain pages, ages, and countries. Now My ROI is about $10 back for every $1 spent for a conversion. You will need a chunk of money first to test different things before you find the right targeted page. Its not useless, people give up because they spent over $100 and see no results, the key is to keep testing.

@Bulbophile

8 жыл бұрын

and yet their stock price is soaring, even now

@FrankZen

8 жыл бұрын

+Bulbophile see 2000s dot.com bubble....

@commentcontrol7187

8 жыл бұрын

not as bad though

@Cooltaha

7 жыл бұрын

its pretty shitty

You know its a 7 year old Video when Facebook still appears relevant in it

This video need to be refurbished in 2021 again

It's not people just sitting and clicking things all day. It's bots that log into accounts, navigate the website, execute an action, log out and repeat.

Excellent video! Ask anyone who has ever tried to garner more attention on Facebook, this video hits the nail on the head.

@EugeneMillerErm

10 жыл бұрын

Loved it

@CroatianMinecrafter

10 жыл бұрын

I would say that generally "advertising" a social page does not make much sence since it is designed to be in touch eather to people close to you, or people who share same interest. Just a "Like" is worthless, it doesen't even mean that somebody likes your content anymore.

Real fan here from the Philippines. Discovered your channel, thanks to my curious questions in YT search bar 🤣

This video made me realise that I needed to konmari my Facebook page likes, and can you imagine what I found out? 20 pages that had been removed, some of which I probably put my like on in high school (half a lifetime ago) and were things I would have NEVER pressed like on today, and they can't be removed from my like tab on my profile. The thing is that I konmaried my Facebook page likes just a few years ago, and back then these pages were hidden. Now I have to live with people seeing these things?

This is exactly what amazon is facing with Prime shipping, worked at first and now its mostly up to shady third party last mile shipping companies that are taking hold of the mailing marking in the locality of USPS.

Why am I watching this? I don't even use facebook

@macaroon_nuggets8008

5 жыл бұрын

Good

@loc878

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

@ordenax

4 жыл бұрын

Good to know. To tell ( save) your friends.

@wb6wsn

4 жыл бұрын

You don't use FB; FB uses you.

@AK06ApeX

4 жыл бұрын

Deactivated fB 7 years ago. Best decision ever made!

Congrats on 10 million subs dude, you deserve every one

"Congressman, I don't know the answer to that..."

Facebook is the new AOL, only slower to die.

@theRPGmaster

8 жыл бұрын

Attack On Lel?

@Str1000ac

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan S or MySpace

@Lampeaoo

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan S Amulet of loss?

@amisfitpuivk

8 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to build a house out of old AoL floppy discs. Time to google

This video is from 2014. Has FB changed it's practices or are they still the same?

@manuelsoares4343

6 жыл бұрын

Genevieve Ring nope

@muhammedibrahim9452

6 жыл бұрын

Even worse. They fucked up.

@nazzbuzztutorials9256

6 жыл бұрын

HELLL NO.... TODAY IS 2018 AND FACEBOOK STILL IS GIVING PEOPLE BOT LIKE! ONLY 1% OF IT IS REAL HUMAN VISITOR

@Macintosh007

6 жыл бұрын

No. I deleted my Facebook account because of this. Its useless garbage and a waste of time.

@raiyan3348

6 жыл бұрын

nope, and the same

I'm real!!! I'm currently mainly a curious pizza man attempting to keep up with modern science and avoid misinformation. I never expected facebook to be THAT BIG of a fraud.

It's the same for joining groups, I have some friends on Facebook that join all the groups, they join my faculty group despite that they study elsewhere, join my study year group and they're not in my class, join university residence groups and they don't even live in one, and never like or comment anything there then whenever you comment something, fb shows it to them, It seriously gets me mad, it's like they're only there to spy

Not long ago we've promoted one of our publications in Spanish and ended up with a few hundred page likes from well known Spanish speaking countries such as Ghana, Benin, Guinea-Conakry and Togo. The comments posted by our new fans were unsurprisingly generic, off-topic and written in a Spanish dialect unknown to us, with close resemblances to West African broken English.

@sunshsophprd.0565

2 жыл бұрын

kudos for you...excellent comment ...😆😆😆😆😆😆

Thank you for making this video. I've enjoyed all your previous science-related content, but this is really excellent. I fell for paid so-called "boosted" Facebook posts, since I was barely reaching 10% to 15% of my fans (I noticed the same problem with KZread too...), and the results were barely noticeable. I hope this video goes viral and the right people see this. Thanks!

TBT if I saw a random facebook page claiming to be veritasium, I'd assume it's fake.

4:38 meetup from parallel universe

I don't use Facebook, I don't like Facebook, and I will never use Facebook.

@meta04

5 жыл бұрын

it's like they have hostility to privacy as their main core value. "if you don't agree to the new Privacy Policy, you can't continue to use Facebook" despite GDPR explicitly saying no to that

@MikhaelAhava

5 жыл бұрын

Lucky you.

@Ag89q43G0HyA

5 жыл бұрын

you have an active account on facebook, actually more than 2

@nob2243

5 жыл бұрын

@HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN Facebook itself is spying on us more actively, and collects more data, than FBI ever could. That's why they know they just can't compete :D

@makrumakru5300

5 жыл бұрын

@@x_x5009 ban face buk mesenger yuser dataa server save after leek not gud unstal after instal alll data mobail no dilate

FB ads are still same in 2018. I wasted money on Facebook Ads and I made a video on that today exposing Facebook ads

@kijijiallin

5 жыл бұрын

Get rekt loser. Selling soap to Facebook moms at a 400% mark up

@jackyzhu9761

5 жыл бұрын

You know English.

@user-fn6yr5yd7x

5 жыл бұрын

Don't listen to racists man

@aienbalosaienbalos4186

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-fn6yr5yd7x especially racists that trick soap users

@ViratKohli-jj3wj

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackyzhu9761 Shut Up Clown!

Love your cannel. You are an revolutionary thinker and you awaken minds. Thanks

It’s 2021 and Facebook still does this. I just tested it this week.

Great video Derek! :D

@mikeyshh5376

10 жыл бұрын

Wooow, very very interesting!! ;)

@BongSalvador

10 жыл бұрын

Fraudbook.

Awesome video. Facebook won't stop, though, because it's the "Like industrial complex", which is why they're motivated to continue freebooting, as well.

@jamesjones7670

8 жыл бұрын

ok

@jamesjones7670

8 жыл бұрын

+James Jones ol

i deleted my fb account 2 years ago, never looked back since

Has anyone checked if this is the case with Twitter as well?

+Veritasium heyyyy I actually engange...look I comment...blablablaa comment comment likeee...look I am geniune geniune am meeee

@001100AAAEA

8 жыл бұрын

Wtf

@Joe097757

8 жыл бұрын

+TheWieriekenshin hippito ?

@draco_vsgaming6271

8 жыл бұрын

+TheWieriekenshin Is that House? Good lord that's a brilliant profile pic

@fayadkarim4077

8 жыл бұрын

Please Wankstien you look like a majer scam

Now time to share this video on Facebook...

@lonsdaleitepolitics9597

6 жыл бұрын

WonderWhy! How has no one responded to you in 4 years?

@pureog1479

3 жыл бұрын

@@lonsdaleitepolitics9597 7*

imagine living in srilanka and still watching this video

Thanks for spreading this information! I’ve been tempted to buy ads on Instagram for my small business, but now I know I won’t

When click farms hear this, they might evolve into comment farms. fun.

@18brandon92

6 жыл бұрын

Darryl S lmaoooo we’d all be fucked

@FirstLast-fr4hb

6 жыл бұрын

The sea of spam would be the death of face book. No one would be able to communicate

@e.priest8937

5 жыл бұрын

That is inevitable. That's what AI is for

This is one of the best videos on KZread! In 2012 I hired an assistant for my business to run my social media program. Everything he is saying in the video is 100% true. Finding out first hand all likes are not created equally was eye opening! I had more likes, but less engagement. Any bought like or followers is absolutely WORTHLESS! Great information!

@meredithkrause5836

10 жыл бұрын

Oh I completely agree. Those who say otherwise are working for Facebook. I have another business where I tried FB ads and these were my results without even knowing this video existed, lol. Luckily I had an FB coupon so I did not have to spend my own money. I even tried the Power Editor and the Facebook Audience Makr and everything. Without the PE and the AM I generated 65 likes! But all from India. With the PE and AM, I generated 1 like. Pretty useless if you ask me. If anyone wants to try the Audience Makr for their useless FB ads, let me know, I have 2 more licenses available. I really wish it all had worked, but, it didn't :(

7:49 How does one see this data, or has it been removed from the site?

I experienced the same useless ‘likes’ from legitimate paid Facebook ads that were targeted within Canada for people who are interested in sailing. Most of the likes were from Hispanic people who had no sailing interests. How can Facebook get away with it?

You just confirmed my ongoing suspicion! I have yet to experience any meaningful engagement as a result of Facebook promotion and Facebook in general. It is in my opinion the greatest scam ever perpetrated on man. Instagram included. Thank you for the detailed scientific analysis and research. Great job!

I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh. And I am feeling ashamed

@TonyStark-ze4ph

8 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Ciprian-Amarandei

7 жыл бұрын

2 of my ex "clients" where from Bangladesh , Dhaka and both failed to pay for the services I've done for them. I cannot be in more agreement your statement.

@abhishekshankar1136

6 жыл бұрын

dude theres is nothing to feel ashamed about... its how stuff works

@abhishekshankar1136

6 жыл бұрын

infact i have seen a real click farm... so basically these guys purchase a very small room enough for 500 phones.. and they attach it onto wall and they are all connected to a central computer... so when such a guy at the computer gets a request he just programs all the phones to like that Facebook page from multiple accounts in the 500 phones that he bought.... so say he gets a request for 4000 likes he will just repeat the process 8 times over to reach 4000 likes... thats how he makes his living... its quiet profitable... plus there is a tie up with the guy and the phone distributor... so say he purchases 500 phones he will just give a portion of his share to the phone distributor everytime someone buys his like service.... thats how he pays off for the 500 phones(low quality).... eventually he will buy more and expand his business

@sonicfoxxmusic4281

6 жыл бұрын

See the comment above of Sonic Foxx Music..... I DID NOT write it on there....and when i tried to write this message in the "reply" ....it wouldn't allow me to....that is fraudulent activity. Welcome to the criminal internet.

We want an update on how Virtual cat is doing!

@reecheshjchhaya5927

2 жыл бұрын

Meaw 😂🤣🙏💐

Now that's a business model you don't see every day.

I've experienced this first hand. No matter how good and useful my content was, without paid ads the reach was very low, and I'm talking about the people who actually like my page and followed my work...

@Frank13417

10 жыл бұрын

and how i got lot of facebook likes all i use is ＦＡＮＳＤＲＩＶＥ． ＣＯＭ

And now, because of this video, virtual cat has 11,388 likes.

Young generation in Japan think that Facebook is for older people, which I think amazing since I've heard more negative news about Facebook than positive one.

Now most likes come from invites which makes it even less engagement you're just asked to like something and just forget about it

Hey, I live in Dhaka, and I legitmately like your page. D:

@voscra

10 жыл бұрын

Dhaka just has a lot of people, 111 MILLION PEOPLE, so obviously most of those likes could be legit!! but clickfarms are a industry here, but there are REAL People who like pages, like me.

@voscra

10 жыл бұрын

I am not a bot

@Ruminations09

10 жыл бұрын

Hashtag #imdifferent

@shoalinscrap

9 жыл бұрын

I legitimately liked your comment

@Christian-wk9vx

9 жыл бұрын

Hashtag #Hashtag

Derek, Please be careful. We don't want to find you in a ditch soon :P.

@ErnestJay88

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, mark JEWISHberg will send his SS troops to Derek's houses :D #justkidding

I’m from Sri Lanka, and I love your channel. With a dream of following astronautical engineering, your channel help me build more curiosity, People here don’t really know channels like this

Well that pisses me off. I run a small 501c3 and we've essentially wasted precious budget using the Facebook Ads then. Well, lesson learned.