I’ve stumbled upon this interesting video in facebook where a guy talks about “The Problem With Facebook”. He talks about how facebook/youtube and social media makes their money and how we’re the facebook advertisers and shit like that. He also goes into a little discussion where he explains it’s very hard to get people to like your posts like your status, photos, etc.
He is so right though that all people care to see in facebook are wedding photos and baby photos. Plus, people get obsessed with photos of their pets and selfies.
It is hard to get people to like your stuff.
When I post on my personal facebook page… a lot of people don’t hit the like button on my posts too much even though I try to make them positive and fun as possible. Sure, like one or two people will hit the thumbs up button on my posts but not a lot of them. It seems that the only time I get people going on my facebook page is when I post a controversial political topic or if I post something everyone disagrees with… those are the only times I get a big discussion going but other than that… people ignore everything I post like the movies, music, etc. I don’t know why that is but facebook proves that people can be really weird and they can be honest in a way too. Sad but it is what it is.
I also try my best to promote my facebook music fanpage and while I try to get a lot of people to join my page only very few are kind enough to support it. My facebook fanpage has only about 47 fans. That page is just for my musician stuff related only. It’s really hard to get people to support and like you in facebook.
This is part of why Facebook is not a good social media tool for promoting music. To all those bands/artists that do have a lot of fans chances are they paid for those, “likes”. So just because a band has a lot of fans on their page doesn’t necessarily mean they are something special. There are all kinds of bands/artists in facebook who try to make themselves look big and popular when technically they are nothing.
This is why bands/artists shouldn’t rely on facebook to promote themselves. If you want your music to become a little more well-known then your must promote yourself the best you can and market yourself everywhere as much as possible besides the computer. Bands/artists rely on the internet only with their music these days. A lot of them can be lazy at promoting themselves.
If I only have very little support in my social media world on the internet, I’m okay with that. I’m not desperate for popularity. A lot of people are these days. I would like to get more support, of course, but I’m not too worried about it. I’m happy with the small support I have now.
Check out this interesting video, this video has nothing to do with bands/artists but the same advice applies to them too when it comes to facebook.
Kev
K'Brocking 