Hello my fellow Steemians!! Today I'll share some thoughts based on an I had recently experience.
If you ask ten people if they care about the lives of other's, how many do you think will say yes?... one... maybe two...? But in truth eight, maybe nine... would be interested.
It's a funny thing isn't it? If there is something people won't admit is that, they like to see what other people are up to. I mean that's the "secret" of success of Facebook. The biggest company in the world is providing information on the lives of others for nosy people...
And talking about Facebook leads me to the main topic of this article ... my recent experience.
So maybe a month or two ago I did a Instagram account. I wanted just have a look and get a felling for it, since it's so important for marketing these days.
And this is what happen...
I opened the account and did not share it with one single person. I do think it showed on my facebook "He got a account", but I did not share it... I did not made a single post.. however after a couple days I have some 250 followers...
The account is still there to this day, with zero posts and 250 followers.
This is the story of my personal Instagram account.
Now my professional Instagram account.
After a few weeks I decided to open another account for my production company.
So I did...
I've made some quality posts, I share it with people, I asked people to follow. I followed every single person from the 250 followers in the previous account. And I kept on working on it...
You know how many followers I got in those first weeks?... Around 30... (At the moment 60, after a couple months of hustling) from the 250 and more... 30 joined this.
So we have a personal account, with my face on it, that promises to be, not so interesting... showing pictures of my life... I din't show it to anyone, it has zero content in there and it got 250 followers... because it was my personal account....
On the other side we have an account I would like to grow and it got 30 followers... it has good content and some cool art and stuff but since it's not personal ...
So in short:
It's kinda funny how few (if any) people are willing to admit that not only they care about what other people do and think, but they even look for such information.
As always, thank you for reading.
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Very interesting post! I had this problem too with facebook. But maybe we can use a little bit of personal to promote the professional ;)
Yeah... In Facebook I definitely use my personal to promote my working one. If I just post on my pro page, it gets around 10 views hehehhe - Share to your own timeline... much better (usually)
Eu sei bem como é... Mas a experiência foi no Facebook. Já tentei uma página com minhas ilustrações e tinha um pouco mais de 40 seguidores. Enquanto que na minha conta pessoal, tive que bloquear para não me convidarem, pois até da China chegava convite para adicionar.
Quando a página tem realmente um sentido, conteúdo e há o desejo de ter pessoas para acompanhar seu trabalho, parece que fica invisível.
Valeu por compartilhar, @maxjoy!
Forte abraço!
Isto aconteceu no Instagram. Mas é mesmo como falou, quando há trabalho e desejo de ter pessoas a acompanhar parece que ai é que não dá.
Obrigado pelo comentário! Abraço!
You must just have a really really attractive face then haha :P
Thanks for sharing this @maxjoy. Definitely an odd experience! I definitely get frustrated with social media a lot. Grateful to be on Steemit...its a much better vibe here ;-)
Would love to hear your thoughts regarding my recent post about true boldness and how to harness it: Be Bold And Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid
My girlfriend tells me so ... heheh
Yeah, much better vibe in steemit indeed!
Thank for your comment @axios! I'll have a look at your article when i get a little time.
haha! sounds great man looking forward to it
Nice post.... People care about what they like. I think you might share something that is not what they are interested in.
People do care about what they like I agree. And they like to know about the life of other's...
No Facebook até seus inimigos viram amigos, é impressionante.. só para observar.... Página profissional com muito esforço se demora um certo tempo para crescer ... ou seja a vida das pessoas é mais importante nos dias de hoje. Excelente semana @maxjoy!
"No Facebook até seus inimigos viram amigos, é impressionante.. só para observar.... " Está tudo dito.
É realmente uma ironia quase engraçada...
Obrigado pelo comentário e um resto de uma ótima semana!
Dont think of it this way. It could simply be that people are not interested in your company’s product thus they wont follow and on the other hand they like as a person and they want to keep up with what u r up to :)
Yes it could be!! It's not really a product based company...
Good post... Instagram is a very weird website and app... Also Very egocentric. Numbers let know that the picture we can find the most in instagram, is not about food or art or others things no no ... it's selfies. I almost doesn t use instagram.. I don´t like it . And your exemple that you share with us about your accounts are very interesting !
Instagram is very egocentric indeed more even than other social sites... I did not know that all the most voted pictures where Selfies... ai ai ai.
I only started using it very recently because now a days is very important for anything to do with video, photo, image, art etc... So I joined the train.
Thanks for your comment!
Nice post