Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Voting Competitions - Love Them or Loathe Them?
As you may know I am currently trying to get people to 'like' my Hotmail Time Saving Invention in a bid to get my Zippy Baby Snowsuit made in to a real life product (and win £2,000 if I get the most likes). I'm not holding out much hope - I only have 28 likes! lol I have to admit though, I do feel like I'm being a bit of a hypocrite by asking you all to 'like' because I HATE voting competitions.
The way I see it, all 'liking' competitions end up being a popularity contest and usually result in the person with the most friends winning rather than the best entry and as you can see I don't have many friends!
As we all know the Next Baby Competition is a voting competition and amongst other reasons this has caused quite a backlash. People with a high number of votes are reported to have received hate mail! Extreme comping!
I've also noticed another competition on the Tesco Diets Facebook page is also causing quite a stir - as the recipe with the most votes is actually a high calorie dessert!
An increasing number of competitions now involve getting your friends to 'like' your entry but in turn this means that they have to 'like' the brands Facebook page too. So is this a fair way to judge a competition entry or are brands and businesses just getting lazy and greedy for fans?
What do you think?
PS Vote for me! lol
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