Saturday, April 25, 2020

Facebook Manipulates Your Mind

How Facebook manipulates your Likes, your mind, and why it is waste of time

 
picture by  Cagle,com

Does facebook manipulate likes?

I recently took over managing an organization's fb account. Before me, they were doing a pretty lack lustre job. Saying "Hi!" every other day or posting memes that hardly related to their business.
On the week that I took over, I started posting really great photos of their product/property. Immediately post likes went up from 3/4 to 20-50 likes per post but page likes stayed stagnant. On the fourth day, I posted a photo that went somewhat viral (200 likes, 64 shares.) The next few days the page got 600 new likes.
Since then, I've continued posting great pics and info hoping for a repeat. The likes are creeping up slowly...3 a day or so.
My questions: Is it possible or likely that facebook gave me a lot of exposure that first week just to give me an addictive taste for likes? Or is it more likely that that one early random post went viral and nothing else since has been worthy?
Is there social network theory that may explain the early jump. (e.g. Given my graph and the strength of my brand, there is some baseline number of likes that would be attained almost immediately once I actually started trying with the page. But then I have to fight for small increments in likes after that? I dunno sounds a little wonky but there must be some math to this thing.
I guess bottom line: I'm trying to figure out what's attainable and where the goal posts lie - wondering how much I have to do to get there. If I'm asking the wrong questions, please feel free to enlighten/redirect. Thanks.

4 comments:

  1. we are witnessing creation of new human species "Human Moronus Facebookus" LOL

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  2. Hey, who said that evolution always improves species ? if that was a case, we would have 100 times more species living on earth today....

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  3. LRN $25.00 a Share... K12 Inc. is a for-profit education company that sells online schooling and curricula. K12 is an education management organization (EMO) that provides online education designed as an alternative to traditional "brick and mortar" education for public school students from kindergarten to 12th grade (hence the company's name).[3] Publicly traded K12 is the largest EMO in terms of enrollment.....Interesting company

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  4. Well, Facebook as a company is as morally corrupt as any big corporation can be or even more...they promote fake engagement between people, fake likes, fake social model just to stir public to visit their twisted content to expose them to advertising....Good/Bad news for them is that advertising expenditure will be way down from previous years because small business will be forced to cut on spending because of Covid 19 ....

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