Some acquiantence of mine from facebook are soliciting ‘likes’ to their own facebook page (of their own business whom I have no knowledge of), they do this by sending mass PM to people on their friend list with this :
“Please ‘like’ this page, thanks very much!”
Seriously, I am not going to like your page just because you told me to. I don’t like to be told to do things without being given a reason, ANY reason for that matter. At least have the class or the manners to give some background information. People whom I never heard from since 1990 ain’t going to get any likes from me.
My wife once asked one of her close real life friends to like her page on facebook, the friend hemmed and hawed and in the end refused saying she didn’t want to get involved in a pyramid scheme.
Less than a year later her friend asked her to like a page for a Tshirt printing business she started.:rolleyes:
Meh. It happens. I have a page and a group running.
The one that DID annoy me was a guy who wanted me to join his page. I did and it was so much drivel that I “Unliked” it. He figured that out somehow, and started in on inviting me to the page, Every Single Day, sometimes twice.
I finally got tired of it and totally unfriended him. Felt good, too.
Instead of liking it, you should print out a screenshot, put it up on your fridge, and send the person an email of a picture of you next to the fridge with the picture on it giving a thumbs up and let them know that you don’t just like the page, you LOVE it.
There’s a legit reason people solicit likes on FB - it builds your brand. And more importantly, when individual posts for that business gets likes, that post ends up on more newsfeeds and hence gets more attention and hopefully business.
What the hell is wrong with you? I have lots of friends who are running businesses, and every time they post a business message, I like it and then keep scrolling. It costs me nothing, may help a friend become more successful, and has no negative impact on my day.
If it was something that I couldn’t support, like Nazi Bob’s Hamburger Joint, then I wouldn’t like it, but I probably wouldn’t be friends in the first place.
I had my own little rant along these lines a bit earlier this week. There is apparently this site called “upworthy” that exists, as near as I can tell, to feed content to facebook posts. But the thing is, if you click on someone’s “upworthy” link to see their kitten video or whatever the fuck it is, “upworthy” makes you answer some insipid bullshit question before you can see it. I got, and I’m paraphrasing this only slightly, “It’s good to see the good in the world and we should see more of it. I AGREE / I DISAGREE”. You know what? Fuck you. I’m answering “I DISAGREE” to this just to fucking spite you for sending me to this site and “upworthy” for making me jump through this nauseating “feel-good” hoop in order to get to whatever the fuck it was I wanted to see. I don’t know what their game is, but fuck them with a rhino cock sideways. Grr.
No. There is no “legit reason” to solicit likes. You don’t build a brand by begging and harassing your friends. You build a brand by having a product or service that people genuinely need or want. If you really want to help a friend be more successful, then put your money where your mouth is.
I don’t have a facebook page, but I don’t see the point of likes either. My company keeps pushing FB and encouraging people to like it, to raise awareness. That is not the problem! We are a charity and need MONEY.
novice question: How does having more likes benefit a business? Don’t you have to go to the page to see how many “likes” there are? If so, that person is already there and can like it or not on their own.
No. People think the “like” is enough. Then they don’t donate because they feel like they have already “done” something for the charity. And valuable time is spent pushing people to “like” the page rather than just giving us $5.
What you do is you “like” the page. Then your charity continues to socially engage on Facebook by posting regular updates, which your “likes” receive. Then you charity finds a way to encourage donations. Then, hopefully, some of your “likes” donate. Which is exactly what happened in our case. If you think social media is not an avenue to explore when seeking charitable donations, you’re being short-sighted, in my opinion. It shouldn’t be the only way, and, depending on your charity, will probably not be the best way, either, but it certainly should be tapped, if possible.
We do all of that, and sure, sometimes we get a few dollars tossed our way. But it is not the correct way to engage big business, where the money really is, and it should not be our prime focus.
The push is huge to get “likes” on our page…I don’t feel like there’s enough push for the follow up.
Yes, getting likes on their own means nothing unless you guys are doing something to create content and get people to engage with your page.
If you’re mainly targeting big business for donations, sure, Facebook isn’t the right venue. But if you’re looking for individual donors for $5-$20 or so each, it’s a valuable resource. But you have to do something with your page to keep people interested. Just plopping up a Facebook page and getting people to “like” it without further action is not going to yield much.
When you “like” something it shows up in your other friends’ newsfeeds that you liked it, and your friends can click through on the “like” action and see what it’s all about. Subsequently, if you then “like” or comment on the page’s updates, those would show up in your friends’ newsfeeds and might also get people to click through.
I don’t like to hijack conversations, but it isn’t like there was a heated discussion about this in the first place, and I added my two cents is all. It’s the way conversations go.
