Sometimes when you see a friend like his or her own post, you quickly call them a joke isn't it? This article proves that you might be the joke if you have been missing this great trick of making your posts go viral on social media platforms.
If you’ve been using Facebook,Twitter,etc for a while you have probably noticed that many people “Like” their own posts just as soon as they post them.
While this could be viewed as a form of vanity (I mean really, is it cool to “Like” your own posts?), in most cases it isn’t vanity at work at all.
Facebook for instance, has made numerous changes to their user interface of late, and one of the most reviled changes of them all were changes to the news feed and the introduction of the Ticker. Now, instead of seeing all of your friends’ posts, you only see a selected few (selected by Facebook of course) showing up in your news feed. Under the new “Edge Rank” system, friends that don’t “Like” and comment on your posts usually stop seeing them altogether before too long.
This is also noticed on the Linkedin and similar websites. Apologies to Linkedin users as this platform is actually not a social platform but the website mechanism works the same way like other social media site. In order to compensate for not showing your posts in some of your friends’ news feeds, some of these websites have added the ticker – a box column that lists the activities of your friends as they happen. This is where “Liking” your own posts comes into play. When you “Like” a post, that action is noted in your friends’ ticker boxes, giving them a chance to at least be made aware that you have posted something even if it doesn’t show up in their news feeds.
So the next time you see one of your friends “Like” their own post, they probably aren’t giving themselves a pat on the back. Instead, they’re giving you an opportunity to check out a post that might never make it into your news feed. I recommend that you “Like” your own posts as well!
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