Starting a new series on how to GO VIRAL with your posts! There is so much to talk about, that I will take each topic one by one. Starting with…
The human factor:
It’s all about people! How people react to what they see, read , hear, and interact with one another.
What they see:
For example: People see a cute image of a cat behaving badly. But it only goes viral if a human passes on the photo or video.
- Why are people so taken with cat’s behaviour?
Let’s take into consideration those wonderful Tom & Jerry cartoon films we used to watch and enjoy so much.
- There was drama.
- Tom’s anger.
- Fear for the mouse’s sake.
- How clever the mouse was.
- The antics both the cat & the mouse got up to, in order to achieve their own personal goals.
- There was action and anticipation.
- The mouse always won. Even though winning was important to Tom.
Conclusion:
- Those Tom and Jerry films became so embedded in our minds. How cute and nimble mice are.
- And since we all have cats as pets, we watch the antics they get up to. So we feel for Tom.
Here is a typical cat story you can relate to:
We had a ten acre plot a few years back. Some would have called it a mini farm.
And on our farm we had a lot of field mice. Especially in a rainy season, they breed more than ever, when there is good juicy harvest to eat.
So we had to have cats that would catch mice. And our cats were great rat catchers… BUT… if we found a mouse in our house during the night, the cats were absolutely useless, most of the time!
Let me say why.
Giving you one circumstance to show how it would generally happen.
I would be woken up during the early hours of the night with a scratchy sound in the bottom half of my chest of drawers. Naturally I would get our cat, hoping it would catch the rat.
First I would open the bottom drawer, so the cat could see the rat. But oh no, the cat wouldn’t even look at the rat, at the far back of the chest of drawers! Why couldn’t it see it?
But like Tom, our cat wasn’t interested at first.
He didn’t know why his beautiful sleep was so rudely interrupted! And it wasn’t too happy about all this fuss. Its attitude was, “leave me alone” and tried to wiggle out of my hands.
Fighting me, it wouldn’t even look into the chest of drawers exposed cavity. I was most frustrated. Why wouldn’t the cat stop its nonsense and just do as I wanted?
I tried holding its head towards the cavity. But it persisted in looking the other way, furiously wiggling!
Then suddenly by pure chance,
The cat heard movement in the chest of drawers and turned its head and saw the mouse. There was sudden stillness, while the cat took note of the rat, and the rat stared back at the cat…
Aaah then we had real action! The cat leaped out of my hands and pounced for the rat. And the chase was on….
Have you had that type of thing happen with you?
So you see…
You can easily associate with Tom and Jerry, because you’ve had similar experiences with your own cat.
One moment it is peaceful and the next moment it‘s instant action. Cat’s personalities can be so fascinating with their many different personalities.
- But it’s our re-action to what we see, to what we think is so funny or cute.
- We are the ones who pass on those cute photos and videos for our friends to see too.
The bottom-line:
Humans have to have their imagination and emotions stirred before anything goes viral!
So don't forget... always take people’s feelings into consideration before posting.
This is the way to go
Hope Steemit puts the keyword `goviral' in the trending words list. Because so many people want to know how to go viral.
Cheers my friend. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Awesome post and great idea for a series of posts - I for one will be tuning in and taking note!
Love the Tom & Jerry analogy, I have experienced a friends cat acting very friendly with a rabbit, but freeing still at night when it heard mice! It did catch some mice, which was pretty crazy and made me think how cats are genetically hunting animals - mini lions! Even though we have them at cute pets, they spend a vast amount of time hunting.
You are right about taking peoples feelings into consideration when we post! I will take note and think harder. I really want my account to grow this year. Looking forward to the next post!:)
My cats usually hunted mice out in the grasslands and bush, so I suppose wasn't expecting to see any indoors!
Wow, in anything we do, we must consider human action and emotion towards it since they are the reason why we writing up at first or better still what we manufacturers. My reaction to the cat and mouse story was captivating to the extent that joy filled in my heart, I don't want the story to end but unfortunately it must end so that the writer will achieve her aim. Thanks for putting this up for us.
Yip, we want people to read our posts, up-vote us and follow us, but we often forget how they feel about what we post.
To be honest we are playing to their senses, moods and emotions, in order to go viral.
Hey @artguru how are you ??.
Thank you for sharing your another post but it is special and to provide new series of post..
And which is going viral..
Keep it up ..
I don't know if this post will go viral, because I couldn't use keywords that google search would work better with, like separate keywords for going viral. Here I had to use the joined key word: goviral. And Steemit keywords take time to build up enough to be on the trending word list!
@artguru ,Bottom lines have the great intention.As the Social media platforms emerged and took their places in big,something going viral doesn't take too much time if the content is so different from others.
Thanks
We are going to talk about social media later, in our future posts on GOING VIRAL.
But first, I think, we must understand what grabs people's feelings. Things that they have personal experiences with, so they can relate to what they see.
It is all about knowing what your audience likes and have passion for before posting something to attract their attention. For any post to go viral you must fist of all understand the apathy and interest of your fans and audience before posting anything to suit their interest @artguru
Oh yes, there is so much we ill be covering in this series. This is only the first post in the series. We will cover all you mentioned and lots lots more.
But first we must realize PEOPLE are who we are talking to when posting, whatever we are posting.
Absolutely great idea and I appreciate your idea and congrats for new series ..thanks for sharing your post @artguru
Hope you will enjoy the new series and that you find it very informative and helpful.
Some things we may know already, but how it is said, I'm hoping will make people sit up and get truly inspired.
Lovely post to provide in this platform @artguru I really happy now to see your post and this series so very beautiful..to continue your activities
I hope this new series will make such a difference to everyone on Steemit, and anyone else who comes across it.
Yes I agree with you and this real space to discussion in this platform.
Go buddy go @artguru
To me, we must make Steemit the place to be and the place where people will find real helpful info.
That's a great post to post provide in this steemit and I get to new series so very much beautiful moment and I love this post.. upvote and resteemit done artguru..@
Hoping you enjoy the new series. And thanks for your input, but I did see this post been resteemed on your site.