This is something that has bothered me for some time. What ever happened to good old fashioned hard work and earning your popularity? And what does buying likes from some random country actually do for you? They’re not actually going to buy your product. Sure, it might make you a tiny bit more visible on Facebook, but it will also ultimately damage your reputation because people aren’t stupid. People notice when you go from 5 or 10 new likes a month for months on end, to over a thousand in a month, and at the same time the most popular city becomes some random city in South America. Blind Freddy could see that the 1,000+ likes were purchased.
There is one particular indie clothing label that I’ve noticed has done this. He, and his label, shall remain nameless for now, as much as I’d love to name and shame. Any respect I had for his business (which wasn’t much to begin with… designs that in general look like they were drawn by a 5 year old od’ing on ritalin, wanky descriptions completely unrelated to the product, and just a general “I’m a complete wanker” attitude that oozes from everything he writes) dissipated at the speed of light once I cottoned onto the fact that he was moronic enough to “buy” likes. Sad part is, he’s actually come out with a few things now that I actually think are pretty rad, but I refuse to buy them based purely on the fact that he’s a fake and too lazy and impatient to do things properly.
I guess that’s about the end of my rant. Bottom line is have some faith in your abilities to build up a legit client/fan base that like your page or brand because they genuinely like your product and would wear it with pride. Don’t buy fake likes unless you want to come across as insecure, desperate for popularity and too lazy to put in the hard yards to build up your client base the old fashioned way.
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Jun 28, 2012
I bought mine with sweat. A lot of sweat and the exchange rate wasn’t that good.
Jun 29, 2012
This is something that has bothered me for some time. What ever happened to good old fashioned hard work and earning your popularity? And what does buying likes from some random country actually do for you? They’re not actually going to buy your product. Sure, it might make you a tiny bit more visible on Facebook, but it will also ultimately damage your reputation because people aren’t stupid. People notice when you go from 5 or 10 new likes a month for months on end, to over a thousand in a month, and at the same time the most popular city becomes some random city in South America. Blind Freddy could see that the 1,000+ likes were purchased.
There is one particular indie clothing label that I’ve noticed has done this. He, and his label, shall remain nameless for now, as much as I’d love to name and shame. Any respect I had for his business (which wasn’t much to begin with… designs that in general look like they were drawn by a 5 year old od’ing on ritalin, wanky descriptions completely unrelated to the product, and just a general “I’m a complete wanker” attitude that oozes from everything he writes) dissipated at the speed of light once I cottoned onto the fact that he was moronic enough to “buy” likes. Sad part is, he’s actually come out with a few things now that I actually think are pretty rad, but I refuse to buy them based purely on the fact that he’s a fake and too lazy and impatient to do things properly.
I guess that’s about the end of my rant. Bottom line is have some faith in your abilities to build up a legit client/fan base that like your page or brand because they genuinely like your product and would wear it with pride. Don’t buy fake likes unless you want to come across as insecure, desperate for popularity and too lazy to put in the hard yards to build up your client base the old fashioned way.