10/02/2026
đź‘€ You might have seen a post on your feed asking you to try Meta's new Facebook Plus program.
🤔 So, what is it and can it help you build a better business?
➡️ Let's discuss what it is and how you can use it.
đź’° Before we dive in, as with anything these days, there's a subscription fee involved. Facebook Plus will be $3.99 a month (for now) and it's a recurring charge each month. If you're budgeting for your business, you'll be lookin' at a yearly total of $47.88 to add to your overhead.
Now, for the features.
Unlike the blue badge with Facebook's Verified for Business Pages, this is only available to your Personal Profile. Not great for folks like me who barely post and have a handful of friends on there, but if you run a lot of your business connections through your Personal Profile, this might be of interest to you.
Here's a creepy one (at least for us lurkers on the app). Story Rewatch Insights- discover which stories people loved most by seeing how many times they rewatched your story. Now, it doesn't say if it's going to out the watcher by stating their name or just do a generic "This was watched X amount of times by more than one person", but it makes me not want to stalk my exes so much now.l
Super react to stories. This reminds me of me and my twin sister's younger years when we tried to outdo each other. "Mine is bigger-er-er". Now, you don't only get to Like a story, you get a Super Duper React to it. According to Meta, it'll make your "friend's stories feel extra special with vibrant, animated hearts that burst across the screen". Oooooo fancy.
Now this is customization! You can choose a custom app icon. Hate the color blue? Well, this is for you. (Hey, that rhymes). You get to choose different colors and designs to float behind the giant "f" in the Facebook App Icon Logo. Wooooooow. I can see the $3.99 steal right with this one LOL
Wanna be a stalker? You can for the low low price of $3.99 a month. You can now preview stories which will let you take a quick look at a Story without counting as a Story View. A great option for those scared of commitment (talkin to you, ex hubby)!
24 hours not enough time for your Stories to be seen? Now you can up your Stories expiration to a full 48 hours! That gives viewers twice as long to stalk you!
Last, but definitely not least, you now have a search bar so you can search through people who have viewed your Stories to really make sure your exes make the list. I mean, past customers. Yes, business. Sorry. You can easily search by typing in a name vs having to scroll down and look at every profile photo of your viewers, which is also called dedication if you do this.
I'd have to think that most of us are not utilizing our Stories to the utmost so this might be a miss for many of us. There is Stories strategy out there, but it takes a lot of time to cultivate a Story audience (just like it takes a lot of time to cultivate a page audience).
This comes alongside talks of a new Meta app that will just be for Stories. So, might be the time to think strategically when creating your Story content. No more just resharing your Feed Post to your Story with a sticker that says, "New Post".