0 Facebook Not Suited For Alerting
- Lert Info
- by Stuart Gunn
- 07-01-2020
Thousands of Kiwis rely on our pushed emergency alerts every day! Why? Because they want their families to be much safer.
Push alerting has proven time and again to be the most effective way to alert you. It's immediate and reliable.
These days Facebook releases posts over several hours and then the majority never see them.
Our social media expert has seen Facebook posts reach fewer people over the years.
Sadly, the exact same thing is happening with posts from pages for Civil Defence, NEMA, Metservice, Councils, and now groups. They are all taking a hammering, and we see that in their figures too.
Most of them only reach 5%, possibly 10% of followers. Luckily we can get up to 30%.
This following chart shows the number of people that DON'T see individual posts. How will you know you missed a post?
YOU WON'T
The following chart clarifies why a dedicated alert service is your best way to stay informed.

You'll also see push alerts much sooner. No use getting an alert AFTER you needed to evacuate or shelter from a severe thunderstorm.

When people regularly said they were missing posts we decided to stop using Facebook because we had absolutely no control over alert distribution.
The only way for a reliable, fast and most of all, proven alerting method is Push Alerts .
We can provide email or superior Txt alerts but there is a huge trade off between the two - speed and reliability. Email is affected by worldwide security/spam measures employed these days.

Lert Info is NZ's only, dedicated, alert service.
It's here specifically to keep you and your family better informed and safer. No others can do what we do.
We really want you to be safer, so why not join the thousands and thousands of Kiwis getting information before you. Click Here