Unlike most 20-year-old college students, he's also a business owner. [...] Conrad might be wildly overestimating his ability to scale his small online retail business. Early in December, Facebook changed the algorithm that determines which stories show up in your News Feed â" that column of status updates, news stories, photos, and videos that you see when you open up a Facebook app or go to Facebook.com Facebook said the point of the change was to make it so users see more  "higher quality stories" and fewer joke photos and thin viral content. The change may have had that effect, but it also had another one with wide-spread consequences: it made it so that when Facebook brand page owners posted a story, a much smaller percentage of the people who "like" their pages see that story. [...] he came to Facebook and built The Hippy Bloggers, which sends traffic to HippiesHope.com. [...] he's running a small retail empire and taking on investors. CEOs I was consulting for hours â" I made friends with lots of them, and they turned into mentors for me. Besides his former consulting clients, Conrad also says he's found lots of support for his entrepreneurialism online â" particularly in a sub-section of Reddit called "r/entrepreneur." America Is Basically Irrelevant To The Future Of FacebookFacebook Is A Daily Habit In The US, While Twitter Users Log On Less OftenThis Irate Cookbook Author Represents A Swelling Threat To Facebook's $6 Billion Ad Business
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