Silly Facebook Stuff

[Frog]

What is the endgame of seemingly silly posts by radio Stations and others that pose a question that offers very little challenge to almost all but the most mentally challenged? Stuff like "Can you name a city that does not have the letter "A" in it? Or the same thing I saw today with Fish, sometimes even with the addition of "This one is difficult"!
Hundreds or thousands respond, I assume demonstrating their better than average knowledge.

What the hell is the benefit to the poster? Is there an actual pay-out for massive participation and/or phony "likes"?

[whitewater]

Frog..its not silly..."THEY" are taking our information and seeing what our behaviors are. Its easier now than ever before... its like Brandts post back in the censored post..." How am i supposed to feel?"

So it may seem silly, but its about info on how we think, these little tests..

Yea....big brother is watching..LOL

[balloonguy]

I am not really sure what the purpose is but I did just take a an order with high rush service cost and overnight for 10k likes. The company name is not even on the balloons. I don't get it.

[ebscreen]

Brand awareness.

Oddly enough the regional radio stations are killing it. I hope it's a resurgence in
FM radio but who knows.

[Gilligan]

Yep... I don't know where some of those stations are but I can tell you their names and call signs... because I see their stuff shared so often.

We have found some of our biggest attention getters are dumb things that have nothing to do with our business and frankly aren't even that clever or funny to us.

I recently did a LeBron James meme and it was shared a ton of times and we got a few likes to our page because of it.  I have zero understanding of their motivation for liking our page because of a dumb meme... but I'll take it.

I'm gonna sound like an extreme prick/elitist... but I think I'm too smart to understand the way the average person thinks... I can't get into that mindset at all.

[sweetts]

Just getting in front of thousands of people with the least effort say 100000 people respond daily and you capture or get followed by just one percent, after a month you have 30 thousand followers. Flow those to your web site and hello advertisers.


RT Screen Designs

[blue moon]

Just getting in front of thousands of people with the least effort say 100000 people respond daily and you capture or get followed by just one percent, after a month you have 30 thousand followers. Flow those to your web site and hello advertisers.


RT Screen Designs

this.

How or why?. . . Psychology

It takes three interactions to feel comfortable (trusting?) with the advertiser/presenter. You start with something simple, non binding and easy to do. Strike 1! Then give them a choice where they pick which one they like better. Strike 2! Close with enter to win tickets. Strike 3! 90% of the ppl that go through this will now be comfortable buying from you and will feel some sort of connection. Anything you present now will be taken more seriously and chances of actually closing the sale are many, many, many times higher.

pierre

[Frog]

I guess it illustrates one of the reasons that I avoided Facebook for so many years.
Even with up-to-the-minute updates of folk's rather mundane lives, many find that they still have such little true content, that they need to share other folk's crap, much of it, as you point out, merely thinly veiled advertisements.

This kinda' reminds of the kind of stuff that the commies, back in the '50's, pointed out illustrated our capitalistic downward spiral.

I can only guess that when we all are wearing our Google Glass(es), and online and viewing all of our waking hours, the push to put virtual billboards in front of our faces will be even greater.