How To Get Friends Engaged In Your Facebook Posts

When friends are well engaged in your posts, they don’t think twice before they tap the “like” button and leave an excellent comment. Getting friends engaged can also help you get many followers automatically.

In my old post, I discussed the Top 5 Reasons Why People Don’t Like or Comment On Your Facebook Posts. One of the reasons I did not mention is because you don’t get your friends engaged enough. You need to convince your friends, that they need to take actions on your Facebook updates. Here are few tips I’ve gathered, to help you get friends engaged in your posts:

#1. Show your real personality

There is more to this subheading. Showing your true personality is one of the key factors that can make a Facebook user like or comment on your status.

Facebook is a large community where people come to meet new friends and not robots. People want to chat with fellow human being, not a figure representing a human being.

Most people choose not to use their real image as their profile picture. Why? If I browse through your Facebook photos and find nothing related to your true image, I might never like your updates let alone dropping a comment for you – because I don’t count you as a human being.

When you open a Facebook account new, Facebook itself would suggest you upload your profile picture, not a picture representing another thing. So, why would you use an image that is not related to you?

#2. Upload image

Research states that images on Facebook posts get 53% more likes and 104% more comments than an average post. Images are very powerful elements and are great to tell stories quickly. If you wouldn’t mind uploading controversial images, it can also boost likes and comments.

I don’t remember the last time a friend posted a very controversial image; he needed to confess how the image got him massive likes and comments from different people. You need to test this out to know how powerful images are.

#3. Ask questions

Did you know that the most updates that attract likes and comments are those of questions? I’m very sure everybody has a different opinion. So, a single question thrown out to your followers/audience can get you as many comments and likes as possible.

For example, a Facebook user who has followers from different tribes can ask “What is cat called in your dialect?”. The chances are that he’s gonna get maximum comments from this update because most people would like to participate in giving an answer to the question.

Think of questions you can ask your followers, and post it as an update. If you understand your followers as football fans, a simple question like “Messi or Ronaldo, who is better?” can tell you how amazing it is to ask questions.

#4. Be specific

You need to stay tuned to whatever you post on Facebook. Get to know the posts that got you more likes and comment; probably, they are the kinds of updates your followers would like you to be posting. Stay specific to these kinds of post and your engagement chances will be very much high.

#5. Post at the right time

Times you post updates on Facebook also matters concerning engagements. You need not post any update when you understand that many of your followers would be at work or many of them might be sleeping.

Most of the times, Facebook brings new and fresh updates to users when the user refreshes his feeds; meaning that if you had posted at the wrong time (for example, when most of your followers are sleeping), it is very likely that your update might not be seen in their news feed.

So, targeting the right time for posting updates also helps in getting friends engaged in your Facebook posts.

#6. Offer contest giveaways

The first 20 to comment on this post will get free ebooks on “…”
The 1^st, 5^th, 10^th, 15^th, and 20^th commenter that guess the score between Arsenal and Chelsea will win free recharge cards tonight

These kinds of the examples above could boost your followers’ appetite to comment under your post; even it could be the first time.

#7. Frequency of posting

I see many people posting updates as many times as possible in a day. This isn’t right. How many posts do you want me to respond to per day when there are other users I need to respond to their own updates?

Limit your frequency of posting updates to a reasonable time. If it is just twice per day, it is okay as long as you get your followers well engaged enough.

#8. Post “fill in the gaps” updates

This looks like the engagement strategy that we discussed in #2, but there is a slight difference. #2 is a direct question to your follower, but here, you write an update that requires your followers to fill in the gap in your sentence.

You still don’t get what I’m trying to say? An example is when you post things like these:

· The best time to take pap is ________. Each person has their own best times to take pap. So, people who take pap in the morning might comment “morning. Those who take is on summer period might comment “summer”…and so different answers would flow in your comment section.

#9. Call to action (like or comment contest)

If you have ever posted an update that calls your followers to like or comment on an update, you would understand the power of the call to action on Facebook updates.

For example, posting things like:

Who tells lies mostly in a relationship? “Like” if men, “comment” if women. I’m sure that women would not want men to win them and vice versa. The more your followers reason this, the more you get likes from men and comments from women.
"Like" this post, if you have ever run a risky race from the bathroom to where you forgot something. The more your followers like this post, the more you get comments from people who would like to share their experience running from the bathroom to where they forgot something.

#10. Facebook ads

This is the paid part of getting your friends engaged. When you do Facebook ads, your post update will be seen by so many audiences. A Facebook ad is done on a page. You create a new page, post your update there and boost the update.

However, you can link your Facebook ads to your personal account if you are really good at Facebook ads. This can as well give you massive friend requests (if your post is kind of interesting), and this way you get massive followers in return.

Conclusion:

The only way you could be getting maximum likes and comments is getting your friends well engaged in your Facebook posts or updates. Thank God that you’ve already learned new methods to get your friends well engaged. You could adopt any of these methods and see how powerful they are.

Don’t forget to share your testimonies via the comment. Got any other way that you use to get your friends engaged on facebook? Please let us know too.