I don't apply my knowledge of psychology often. The last time I did, making a silly article, I managed to unleash a stampede of lonely introverted tech workers spitting venom and basically proving my point.
There are a lot of lonely introverts that love to lord their knowledge over people that just want an answer to a question. QED.
Today I will use my applied psychology for your good.
When you start out on social media like #twitter, and #facebook, no one knows who you are. Well, no one but your mom. Moms mainly follow you, except my mom, we haven't spoken much in many years.
Anyway, you can apply this simple to help you attain followers. I don't know how well this works compared to other techniques, and I don't care to invest any time on a comparative analysis. If you have horrible luck or splendid luck with it, make sure you post your results below for people to compare. I will, of course, accentuate the positives and mock the negatives using something #ScottAdams calls cognitive bias.
You are going to use the psychological effects known as correspondent inferences & revealed preferences:
Correspondent inferences state that people make inferences about a person when their actions are freely chosen, are unexpected, and result in a small number of desirable effects.
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Revealed preference models assume that the preferences of consumers can be revealed by their purchasing habits.
People reveal what they like, when they like it.
You reveal something about yourself by liking the same thing.
So when someone likes something, and you like it too, then another person will assume you like the same things as they do. That doesn't have to be completely true to be partly true.
Your $0 purchase of a like, by choosing it over the alternatives, reveals your preferences. Here is the math version:
Coke or Pepsi (or Dr. Pepper). Domino's or Little Caesar's. Trump or Clinton.
By choosing, we make it known.
If you follow the same two people, and you like the same things, then perhaps that person will find more agreeable things inside your feed, or they will feel solidarity with your causes because they hold the same causes.
It's not evil, it's not even manipulative, it's agreement and consensus. People follow what they think they agree to. Similiar thoughts arrive at similar thinking. As the old adage goes:
What this really is is harmless marketing. You are catching people at a time when they might consider following you.
Here is my "timed like" technique:
People's tastes and thoughts change, thankfully. Your number will remain variable with and without your fault.
Using this technique, you can increase your reach which might help you with whatever you wish to make people aware of. This technique doesn't need advertising $$$ or an expert, only applied science and some time. Don't expect rapid results, success may not be guaranteed.
I am offering a tip I learned for free on a platform that serves it to you for the cost of internet service, maybe you would consider buying one of my books so I can put my kids through college?
There are a lot of lonely introverts that love to lord their knowledge over people that just want an answer to a question. QED.
Today I will use my applied psychology for your good.
When you start out on social media like #twitter, and #facebook, no one knows who you are. Well, no one but your mom. Moms mainly follow you, except my mom, we haven't spoken much in many years.
Anyway, you can apply this simple to help you attain followers. I don't know how well this works compared to other techniques, and I don't care to invest any time on a comparative analysis. If you have horrible luck or splendid luck with it, make sure you post your results below for people to compare. I will, of course, accentuate the positives and mock the negatives using something #ScottAdams calls cognitive bias.
You are going to use the psychological effects known as correspondent inferences & revealed preferences:
Correspondent inferences state that people make inferences about a person when their actions are freely chosen, are unexpected, and result in a small number of desirable effects.
&
Revealed preference models assume that the preferences of consumers can be revealed by their purchasing habits.
People reveal what they like, when they like it.
You reveal something about yourself by liking the same thing.
So when someone likes something, and you like it too, then another person will assume you like the same things as they do. That doesn't have to be completely true to be partly true.
Your $0 purchase of a like, by choosing it over the alternatives, reveals your preferences. Here is the math version:
Coke or Pepsi (or Dr. Pepper). Domino's or Little Caesar's. Trump or Clinton.
By choosing, we make it known.
If you follow the same two people, and you like the same things, then perhaps that person will find more agreeable things inside your feed, or they will feel solidarity with your causes because they hold the same causes.
It's not evil, it's not even manipulative, it's agreement and consensus. People follow what they think they agree to. Similiar thoughts arrive at similar thinking. As the old adage goes:
"Great minds think alike, dim ones seldom differ."
What this really is is harmless marketing. You are catching people at a time when they might consider following you.
Here is my "timed like" technique:
- Follow some popular, notorious, or at least well-known people that have lots of followers. These days, you can't beat #DonaldJTrump.
- Wait for one of these popular people to post something. With #Trump, that seems like every late night bathroom break.
- While the post is less than 3 minutes old, like the post and then go into the post and like the 10 people around your posting.
- When you follow other people, they will get a notice and some of these will consider to follow you in return.
- Don't do this repeatedly all day long, that tends to annoy people. And that's borderline abusive to my way of thinking.
- After some time, unfollow the people that didn't follow you back so you don't hit the follow limits imposed by the social media monitors. They seem to have preset limits for people that if your followers and followed climb to rapidly, they block you from further attempts. If you have 200 followers and 800 followed, #Twitter by itself stops you from growing. I keep a running total of around N followers and N+20 followed.
- After a while, some of those people will unfollow you, some will remain.
- Repeat, judiciously.
People's tastes and thoughts change, thankfully. Your number will remain variable with and without your fault.
Using this technique, you can increase your reach which might help you with whatever you wish to make people aware of. This technique doesn't need advertising $$$ or an expert, only applied science and some time. Don't expect rapid results, success may not be guaranteed.
I am offering a tip I learned for free on a platform that serves it to you for the cost of internet service, maybe you would consider buying one of my books so I can put my kids through college?
