For some regular Facebook users they have taken over their news feeds and walls. Some believe they are funny, some cheat on them, and some wish they never existed.
I have wondered for sometime now where they start and who starts them. I have tried to track them by scrolling though the walls and profiles of those who have sent them to me and was only able to really track the fad back a few people. If, for example marking planners from The Hangover and Katy Perry are the ones that start these, it is very smart of them. It is a unique way to get people to talk about your product. Your product being the movie, song or even yourself.
So in response to the large amount of these, which I classify as themed "Tag Your Friends" updates, I have decided to make my own:
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PARTICIPATORY CRITIQUE OF THE "TAG YOUR FRIEND" STATUS UPDATE:
Look to the Left And tag the First 10 Friends into your status. No cheating!
The One That Posts These Way Too Much:
The One That Doesn't Make Sense:
The One That Will Complain About What They Got:
The One That Was Just Too Perfect:
The One That Made Me Refresh The Page To Get New Names:
The One That Will Only Like This:
The One That Has to Have the Last Comment:
The One That Is Mixed Up With The One Above:
The One That Received Way Too Many of These:
The One That Spends Too Much Time On Facebook:
Copy and Paste This to Your Wall and Tag Your Friends!
-SociallyMediated
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The Experiment:
I will be tagging the first 10 Friends on my profile and analyzing the responses I get, if any. Any interesting developments or information I will be sharing on a later post on this website. Feel free to try this on your profile and share what happens with us here.
Better yet. Let's see how the Google+ community reacts to these kinds of posts. I will also be posting this on my Google+ profile and monitoring the response. Here is the Google+ version to anyone else who is interested in participating:
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PARTICIPATORY CRITIQUE OF THE "TAG YOUR FRIEND" STATUS UPDATE:
The One That Posts Way Too Much:
The One That Made Me Refresh the Page to Get New Names:
The One That Will Post This On Their Profile:
The One That Has No Idea What This Is:
The One That Will Only +1 This:
The One That Has to Have the Last Comment:
The One That Spends Too Much Time on Google+:
The One That Is Mixed up With The One Above:
Copy and Paste This to Your Profile and Tag Your Friends!
-SociallyMediated
+1 For Bringing an Annoying Fad Across Platforms
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It's Potential for Online, Social and Even Viral Marketing??
It's Potential for Online, Social and Even Viral Marketing??
I initially wanted this fad to die out but the more I think about it the more I realize it's potential to create viral buzz about a topic, brand, movie, song, event, or person. 5-10 People are being tagged and featured in a topic of the creators choice. The creator being the person that posts one of the TYF (Tag Your Friend) updates to their wall or profile. With the ability to tag Pages in your Facebook updates this could hold some weight in creative online and social marketing. It is slightly immature and intrusive but theoretically the original creator of this chain of updates only has to do it once and the community surrounding the product does the rest of the work. They are having fun doing it and at the same time spreading brand awareness. The funny the link between the person and the line the more effective this can be.
All said, I'd prefer being tagged in more of these then intrusive pop-up ads.
Thank You,
