Why you shouldn’t buy Social Media Followers & Fans

The power of social media cannot be over-emphasized. Social media has revolutionized the way we do business and the way we share information. It is common to see people share contents they find interesting with their folks on the different social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest etc.

The bigger your social media audience, the wider your outreach. While it is important to have a large social media followers and fans, it is also important they engage properly with your shared contents.  In fact it is of no use to have a large social media audience that will not engage with your posts when you share them.

There are a lot of gigs on Fiverr promising to give you thousands of followers and other sites out there offering to instantly increase your number of social media followers and fans. While this may be quite tempting to buy and increase your number of social media followers and fans, I will advise you in this article not to. Here are my reasons for telling you not to buy social media followers and fans;

1. Low Engagement: When you buy social media followers and fans that do not have interest in your niche or topics, they won’t engage on your contents because they don’t have any interest. People only engage on posts based on their interests on such topics, how do you expect someone who has no interest in technology to click and open your posts when you only share technological posts?

This is the very first reason why you shouldn’t buy social media followers and fans because there is no how to determine the interests of such audience, and when it is not same as your niche it won’t convert much.

2. Fake Profiles: When you buy social media followers and fans you may actually be buying fake accounts or simply bots. Such accounts are usually inactive accounts created by bots or other automation methods.

What will be your gain when you buy thousands of inactive profiles that will never see your shared posts, or even engage on them at all? And from time to time sites like Twitter and Facebook have been deactivating such fake accounts. Your fake social media audience number will begin to reduce till you finally have nothing when such accounts have all been discovered and deactivated.

3. You risk being banned: You will also be risking your social media account when you buy a large number of followers or fans. When a huge number of followers and fans follow your account over a short period of time, it may raise a red flag on such account and you could get banned for such.

4. Damage Brand Credibility: If anyone looks very hard into the huge number of your social media followers and fans, comparing them to your engagement such person may most likely spot the fake profiles and this could damage your professional and brand credibility.

When you buy social media followers and fans, such accounts are usually fake accounts with biographies that make no sense and account inactivity and most times don’t have its own followers. When you damage your online reputation by buying fake social media followers and fans, it could hurt your brand so much because if someone who wants to buy your products or do any sort of business with you finds out you could engage on such acts, it may scare them off. Your online credibility is all the credibility you need online to convince people to do business with you and when you damage it, you will surely suffer its consequences.

5. Relevance & Interest: it’s totally of no use buying thousands of followers and fans that don’t have interest in what you share. The audience will totally be irrelevant and cannot engage with your contents or do business with you. Buying fake social media followers and fans cannot improve or grow your business in any way.

6. Waste of Money: Another reason why you shouldn’t buy social media followers and fans is that such fake accounts cannot improve your business, engage on your shared contents, or even have interest in what you have to say and it’s a total waste of money.

In fact such money will be put in better use if you run a Facebook ads or Promoted Tweets targeted to people with interest in what you offer. I agree that it may cost more than buying a cheap Fiverr gig, but you will most likely get targeted followers and fans that will engage on your contents and improve your business.

Then How Do I Grow my Social Media Followers & Fans?

You should focus on organically building your social media followers and fans with people who are truly interested in your content. When someone naturally follows your social media account because he has interest in what you have to say, such a fellow will most likely engage on your content and can even do business with you.

Simply get active and share useful content on your social media page and profiles, try connecting with influencers in your niche and you will get noticed and people will naturally follow you. Remember that analyzing and understanding your audience interests can help you make a social sharing strategy that will convert more.