Every couple of years somebody declares Facebook pages dead. The reality is more specific and more useful: pages did not die, the free reach they were built on did. Whether a page is right for your business depends entirely on what you expect it to do.
What actually changed
In the early years a page was a broadcast channel. You posted, and a large share of your followers saw it. Successive algorithm changes cut that back severely, particularly for posts carrying links out to other sites. The audience is still there. Reaching it for free is the part that largely went away.
Where pages still work
- As a trust signal. Customers check whether a business exists and whether anyone is home. An active page answers both questions.
- As a support channel. People message pages rather than filling in forms, and replying well is visible to everyone.
- As an advertising foundation. You need a page to advertise, and an established one with real engagement performs better than a blank one.
- As a feeder. Pages still move people towards a site, a shop or a newsletter you actually own.
Where they do not
If your plan is to post links daily and watch free traffic arrive, that plan stopped working years ago. Pages built purely on viral reach with no destination behind them are the ones that look dead, because without reach there was never anything else there.
What this means for value
It explains why page prices fell and why they settled rather than going to zero. Buyers still pay for an audience in a commercial niche and a good country, because building one from scratch costs more than buying one. They stopped paying for raw follower counts, because raw follower counts stopped delivering.
The practical answer
Treat a page as one channel among several and build something you own behind it. If you have a large page and no plans for it, it is an asset sitting idle, and it may be worth more to someone else than it is to you.
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