I opened up my phone and it was flooded with “like” notices on my posts from a single person. The interesting thing was that each notice was milliseconds apart (20+) and finished with a single comment:
Nice reading about you
Thanks for visiting my blog xxxxx. Browse through the category sections, I feel you may definitely find something of your interest.
The irony of this comment/activity is it comes 24 hours after I read the article “How to become internet famous for $68”, a fascinating insight into fake twitter followers, fake Facebook pages and the dubious system of internet rankings. Follow that up with the old article “How to get 3 million blog views” and you are left with a dirty feeling.
I follow a bunch of bloggers and randomly browse through posts. I often click on those who leave a comment, curious.
I “like” what I “like”, with no other goal than to thank someone for a good post and acknowledge their photo or writing.
Those with dubious or self-promoting intentions are welcome to stay away. This blog isn’t for you and I can see you 1,000 miles away.
I deleted the comment and out of principle, did not go to the site.
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Nicely said! VERY interesting articles to.
Arigato.
Recently I had a similar experience when I realized that I would post something and get a “like” milliseconds later. Sometimes the account lead to something that wasn’t even a blog, but an advertisement of sorts, and even among real bloggers I found that the more “likes” someone dished out the faster they gained subscribers… Sometimes up to thousands within just a few weeks.
Your spam box is full of them ….
I’m writing on a post about this right now. It’s great to hear that people actually care (many go like: so what, I don’t care..) I just think it’s unfair to like everything and stating they get so many likes and comments because people like their blog. I mean.. wtf?
People do it so they drive traffic to their own site. What’s the fun in that?
Well done! I hate try-hards. The more people plug, the more I DON’T want to “follow me, I’ll follow you?” / “visit my site!” (read: pay attention to me! me! me!) Eww.
No thanks. Gtfo. Lol.