Do you already have a track record of getting sizable groups of strangers doing things they wouldn’t otherwise have done by influencing them on some other social media? Then it might be worth looking into how to game facebook.
If you don’t, then the first question is if you should try to get into the social media influence game to begin with. How many people are trying to do it compared to people who have any traction with a number of followers, and what sets the successful people apart? If most people who don’t bounce off right away are barely hanging by instead of becoming big and influential, how is life for them? How much is success driven by stuff like outrage clickbait, unrelenting smear jobs at whoever your opponent is, raising twitter lynch mobs and the like, and how comfortable would you be operating in an environment where those might be standard operating procedure?
I don’t at all. In fact, track evidence for any kind of online organising would suggest I’m worse than avergae.
However, I am very effective at mobilising people in real life and have a great track record for that. I can often sense the mood of a place and play off that. But, I’m not confident that I can accurately predict it online and do things.
Thank you for getting me to answer this. If I had just thought of the above answer, I wouldn’t have realised by that second point, my efficacy of mobilising people in real life, is non-transfferable to my online-mobilising, based on past evidence. And, therefore, my uncertainty about this topic, lending to the question, is now resolved.
Do you already have a track record of getting sizable groups of strangers doing things they wouldn’t otherwise have done by influencing them on some other social media? Then it might be worth looking into how to game facebook.
If you don’t, then the first question is if you should try to get into the social media influence game to begin with. How many people are trying to do it compared to people who have any traction with a number of followers, and what sets the successful people apart? If most people who don’t bounce off right away are barely hanging by instead of becoming big and influential, how is life for them? How much is success driven by stuff like outrage clickbait, unrelenting smear jobs at whoever your opponent is, raising twitter lynch mobs and the like, and how comfortable would you be operating in an environment where those might be standard operating procedure?
I don’t at all. In fact, track evidence for any kind of online organising would suggest I’m worse than avergae.
However, I am very effective at mobilising people in real life and have a great track record for that. I can often sense the mood of a place and play off that. But, I’m not confident that I can accurately predict it online and do things.
Thank you for getting me to answer this. If I had just thought of the above answer, I wouldn’t have realised by that second point, my efficacy of mobilising people in real life, is non-transfferable to my online-mobilising, based on past evidence. And, therefore, my uncertainty about this topic, lending to the question, is now resolved.
Thank you.