“In response to the new Facebook guidelines, I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the above my written consent is needed at all times!”

I feel so much safer now that I’ve made that public. Those robbers at Facebook won’t be able to take advantage of me now. The photos I posted of my turkey dinner are mine, all mine and Facebook will not profit from them!

What’s sad is, people really believe that posting that message on their newsfeed will help them block the latest potential policy changes at Facebook. It won’t and neither will your negative vote.

A recent study conducted by Recommend.ly gives some interesting insight into Facebook and its use by businesses and consumers alike.

Of course, if you were the folks out in the Facebook offices you would want a study to show how everything is on the rise and all is well with the billion or so users of the top social media site in the world.

Sorry guys. In fact, this study (brought to our attention by Econsultancy) at least is showing something very different. First, it says 70% of businesses that have business pages are not updating the pages at all. Take a look.

Ouch. That’s not real strong is it?

If that is truly the case (pardon me for my high level of skepticism in the age of Internet ‘research’) then this next chart should come as no surprise. It shows that engagement is going down as well. Not much to engage with if a page is not being updated. That’s pretty simple.