You can now buy “likes” for your Instagram account at vending machines in Eastern Europe. But buying likes hasn’t been a good idea for small businesses before. And it doesn’t get any better when you buy about 200 of them from vending machines in a subway. Plus, with the number of sites making it easy to buy Instagram likes online, it begs the question whether or not one would risk their privacy to stop at a vending machine to purchase social media engagement, writes Buzzoid.
Why You Shouldn’t Buy Instagram Likes From a Vending Machine
Buying likes or fans doesn’t give you any real engagement on social media. People who like or follow pages for pay only do it for that reason. They don’t actually care about or even read what you have to say. It offers no benefit to your business.
Scott Yates explains, “Remember the kid who thought that if he bought candy for classmates he’d get more friends? It didn’t work for him, and it won’t work for you. Better a hundred real fans than 100,000 fake ones.”
Building up a real base of fans on social media can take a lot of time. So shortcuts like buying likes followers can seem tempting to a lot of businesses, say experts. But it isn’t worth it. It doesn’t add anything to your social media presence. And if you instead focus your energy on building real engagement, even if the numbers don’t look as exciting right away, your business will benefit much more over the long run.
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Aira Bongco
All I can say is that the addiction is real. It seems that people don’t care about what a like means. They just want likes for what it is.
Nice one. not only for Instagram. We should build up real likes in Facebook also. As you said “Better a hundred real fans than 100,000 fake ones.”