
17/02/2025
COMMENTS AND SHARES THAT IS?
Youāve probably heard it before but the number of followers someone has, and how many likes they get on their posts are irrelevant. Those numbers do nothing to grow your Facebook account. They are purely vanity metrics.
When it comes to FB what's important are comments and shares. Why?
In a nutshell:
At any one time there are around 2800 posts vying for a spot on your feed.
Your individual posts are shown to roughly 5% of your friends list. So if you have 100 friends only 5 will actually see your content. This is because if something isnāt of interest to your friends FB will choose not to share it with the rest of your list due to lack of engagement. Facebooks entire model is based around people staying on their platform, so they only want to share content that people want to consume.
Likes do nothing to convince FB that a user is interested in what you have to say. But if you get comments and more importantly shares, then Facebook conclude that hey this seems to be getting some traction - letās send it out to a few more people.
If youāre someone who is constantly looking at what your competitors are doing have a closer look. Yeah, they may have a lot of FB āfriendsā. But how many shares are they getting.
When you share content of value people will want to pass it on.
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