Fan For Lack of a Better Word

Don’t uthnk becoming a fan is a big step to take.? Well I do. I struggled to become a fan of anything on Facebook for a long time. I thought “yea I’m into that, FB Fansbut FAN is a big call. I’m hardly fanatical about it.” So I took a seat on the fence and decided to commit to not committing to anything fan related.

The main reason I didn’t pop my fan cherry was out of fear of adding to the amount of Facebook fannies. We’ve all seen the trail of update Diarrhea - “Jenny became a fan of eating toast”. Wow Jenny your life sux. Or “Barry became a fan of morning sex”. Yuk Barry, we don’t want to know! Etc.

Maybe Fb needs to introduce some more low key pages. “Become somewhat interested in. ….” or “Andy indicated he thought … wasn’t bad”. That would be pretty weak though. Probably best to stick with the status quo this time.

Eventually I got over my Fanphobia and got fanned up to a few Fb pages. I now believe being a fan is a good way to attach whatever it may be to my personality. Usually to provoke a reaction like this: “Oh I see Andy is a fan of the internet. He looks like he would be into that kinda stuff”. But more important to me is the ability becoming a fan has to give those who are doing something ithnk is cool some recognition (or mad props).

I’m not suggesting we all be like Jenny or Barry and fan everything you can, these people give us legit fans a bad name. I’m just saying don’t be afraid to let others know what you’re into – especially if it helps get interesting stuff out there. Or don’t, it’s up to you; but you should definitely become a fan of iThnk on Fb right now!

  • IMO "like" or "become a fan" makes little difference to most people in terms of whether or not they would become a fan. People still "like" stupid things which get shown up in our news feeds. However as an owner of a page having 1000 fans ads alot more value to my brand than 1000 people liking it. It feels like FB is coming up with issues and problems with their app that don't exist. Paranoid much?
  • socialsammy
    I agree Sam, the value is somewhat in the semantics - the meaning behind the word "Fan" is so much more powerful!
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