{"id":608,"date":"2011-03-03T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:16:20","slug":"should-you-like-your-own-stuff-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrietteweber.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/should-you-like-your-own-stuff-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you “like” your own stuff on Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two days ago I got a lot of traffic on the “should you “like” your own stuff on facebook” sentence. I thought that it would be cool to elaborate a bit on it in a blogpost. So here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My take on liking your own stuff on facebook is that it’s a big no no. It sends a desperation signal that I don’t want to align my identity with. I like to share stuff and I love to get shared, but Im not desperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also if you’re the first who likes the shared stuff on facebook and not one of your peers, I would firmly believe that the likeliness of the content being liked by someone else is decreasing. It’s a personal thing and I can’t really tell what other people would do, only from my own perspective. To me liking your own stuff first on facebook, is like being the first to comment on a blogpost you wrote yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that we’re at it, let’s talk about people who retweets when they are being retweeted. Sometimes if the retweet from a person adds something new to the discussion, I would retweet it to my network. I for sure wouldn’t do it as a religion and retweet everytime someone mentions me. I don’t see this a lot in the danish twitterstream, but it has occured from some of the profiles I follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so liking my own stuff on facebook, to me, is a no no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Retweeting a retweet can happen, if it has added value to it and it brings something new to the table=)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two days ago I got a lot of traffic on the “should you “like” your own stuff on facebook” sentence. I thought that it would be cool to elaborate a bit on it in a blogpost. So here goes: My take on liking your own stuff on facebook is that it’s a big no no. 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