When George Takei Speaks, Facebook Listens

Facebook would have to employ a customer-support staff of massive proportions to deal with every one of its users who had a complaint, but when the user has more than 2 million likes, that user will likely receive some quick attention. And that’s exactly what happened to actor and former “Star Trek” crew member George Takei.

Facebook would have to employ a customer-support staff of massive proportions to deal with every one of its users who had a complaint, but when the user has more than 2 million likes, that user will likely receive some quick attention. And that’s exactly what happened to actor and former “Star Trek” crew member George Takei.

When Takei learned of Facebook’s move to allow page owners to pay to target more users via the social network’s promoted posts option, he posted on his wall, as reported by Mashable:

FB used to allow fans to elect to see ALL posts by selecting ‘All Updates’ from the right hand corner of a post.“For

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