Isn’t it very annoying when you post a status update or upload pictures to Facebook, only to have no like or comment at the end? You have been posting for days now, but you get no comment. The only person or people that like your posts are the ones you know physically. Otherwise, the like and comment are from you the poster. Are people not seeing your posts? Absolutely NO, they do.
Some Facebook users are so that when they read an interesting story, they fall in love with, to tap or click on the “LIKE” button makes them feel uncomfortable. You cannot really refer this attitude as “hatred.” Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinions. Even if you’ve got an amazing content on your wall; an interesting or touching story; an informative and educative content; or eye-catching pictures, you could still get absolutely no comment or like.
This particular issue has bothered me for years, which I finally gathered 7 reasons why people don’t comment or like whatever I post on Facebook. I would not actually be talking about Facebook groups and pages- concerning likes and comment, but a personal profile status update and pictures.
In this topic, I would be discussing
- Why people don’t like and comment on your post.
- What is “friend tagging”? Does it help?
Before I go on, answer this question. Do you think you're posting the right thing that can attract likes and comment?
Why people don’t like and comment on your post
There are tons of reasons why people actually don’t like or comment on your posts and pictures. Below are the main 5 reasons why you get no like or comment on your posts and pictures:
#1. You don’t have active followers
To be sincere, this is the primary reason why you get no like or comment on your posts and pictures. You don’t have followers, or they are not active. Who are your followers? As the name implies – your followers are the friends who follow you - they want to know what you do. They are those who see your updates (posts and pictures). Your updates appear in their news feed. You can see the numbers of your followers when you view your profile. It is on the right side of your profile, directly below your "Intro" or "About me" section.
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Come to reason this, for example. You have 1250 friends and 1000 friends either post an article, write a status update or upload pictures. Do you expect to see the entire article, status and the pictures from all the 1000 friends in your news feed? Never, you can’t see all even you load your news feed for 2 years. Hence, those that you see their updates (article, status or pictures) are the ones you follow.
Same thing applies to those who follow you. Your updates appear in their news feed. So when you have fewer followers, it’s obvious that you might not get comment or likes on your updates.
Also, you have a good number of followers but yet, get no like or comment. It may mean they are not active. They are not active in the sense that,
- · They don’t come online at the right time (especially for long).
- They come online, but they don’t check their news feed. They only come online to reply to messages and check new notifications.
Knowing these facts, how do you get many followers? You get followers in different ways. I have highlighted 2 ways here:
· When someone sends you a friend request, he/she automatically follows you. This is a default setting by Facebook. However, the person may choose to unfollow you if he/she likes.
· When someone comments very frequently on your update, they become your follower. They receive notifications on some of your actions on Facebook.
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| I receive notifications anytime Elekanachi does something |
However, you might also automatically lose these followers if you don’t feed them with what they like. You might also lose them if they no more react on your updates. Therefore, keep your followers by giving them what they want.
#2. Your followers don’t want you to know they are watching you
It could be your teacher, your parent or someone else. They don’t just comment nor like your update because they don’t want you to know that they are following you. They are waiting for the day you would fumble as a Facebook friend said.
He said, “When you update a status that you just returned from church, fewer people would like this. But when you pose with a normal cigarette or smoke coming from your mouth, you would know people are watching you.
Obviously, it is true. Some of your followers would not like nor comment on your updates until you do something wrong so they can tackle or correct you. They are only following you to see every of your actions. Hence, you get no comments nor like from this group of people.
#3. You don’t post meaningful content
How can I like or comment on a post that talks about what doesn’t interest me? People would only like or leave a comment on what is meaningful to them. Your followers are football fans, but your posts always talk about religion and politics every time. How would you get likes or comments? Religion and politics might not be meaningful to them, and hence, you get no like or comment.
That is why you need to understand your followers. Which of your posts ever got the highest likes and comment? This post is what is meaningful to your followers. They are interested in this kind of post. Did you observe why you got massive likes on a particular picture? What are people saying about your updates? You need to study this; it is meaningful to your followers (if not all your friends). This is how you can understand your followers.
Some people go to the extent of copying someone’s posts and pasting them on their own wall. Well, in this case, I can’t blame them although I don’t recommend this. Probably, it works for them. They have understood their followers.
#4. You are not consistent
This is one of the top ways to lose followers automatically. When you do switch off-switch on; you come online for a while and go offline for months, you will easily loose followers, and this means fewer people will see your updates.
Perhaps you are online consistently, and you rarely feed your followers; you don’t usually write a status, post an article or upload pictures, you are at a high risk of losing your followers. In fact, your current followers can also lose interest in your updates since they know it’s a once in a blue moon thing. This gives them a wrong impression about their interaction with you. Therefore, they might not like to tap the like button or leave a comment on your updates.
#5. You are not friendly enough or sound harsh to friends (especially new friends)
Facebook is an enormous platform where you meet different people from different angles. You're not only connected to people around you or your state or country. You're connected to the whole world as a whole. You can be a friend to people in anywhere in the world. Peoples’ opinion is different too, don’t forget.
The way you react to people who are not related to you by tribe, religion or any other factor really matters a lot. Do you respond to messages well enough in your inbox? Do you give a thumb up to people who deserve it? Do you also appreciate the work of others? Do you also like and leave meaningful comments on excellent posts? Remember, what you do to others shall be done unto you too.
If you have once spoken ill to online friends, they may decide to unfollow you. If they don’t, they may not want to like or comment on your updates anymore.
Someone sends you a friend request and after accepting the request, he/she says “thank you for accepting me”. I believe 90% people would ignore this. Why? Instead of ignoring such person, why can’t you just reply him/her “welcome”? I hear some people don’t reply to messages like “hi”, “hello”, “What’s up”, that they want people to go straight to the point. Why? It is very rude to read messages without replying. Everyone’s opinion is different, and you have to respect each person’s opinion.
It is when you are friendly enough to someone that he/she will like to read what you post. It will be very difficult for those who you're not friendly enough with to click on the “continue reading” or the “read more” button, let alone trying to like or leave a comment for you.
Now, you know reasons why people don’t like or comment on your updates. “Followers” are the main people who can like or comment on your updates. However, some people help their post reach many audiences (who are not their followers) by tagging their own friends.
What is Facebook tagging?
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Tagging on Facebook is a special feature that lets you point to someone you're with. For example, tagging people on a picture upload can show who is in the picture. It makes them (people you tag) receive notification about your update.
Does tagging really help?
People use tagging for the sole aim of making their updates reach many audiences in two ways. One is, the friends who are not your followers but tagged will receive notification about the tag. Hence, they are aware of what you posted. It is now left for them whether to like the post or leave a comment or not. Initially, if these people are not tagged, they might not see the update at all.
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| Tee King will receive notification about this post, even if he is NOT my follower |
Secondly, when you tag Mr. A who is your friend, Mr. B who is not your friend might see the update simply because he is a friend to Mr. B. The below screenshot should help interpret my point.
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| Kenneth SirKanas is not my friend on Facebook but I could see the post because Ajeigbe and David are my friends |
Therefore, we can generally conclude that tagging at least a friend can help you create much awareness and can earn more likes and comment for a post.
On the other hand, tagging might drastically cause a great harm to your profile. How? Like I said earlier, everyone is entitled to his/her own opinions. It’s not everybody that likes to receive notifications about tagging. It bothers some people a lot to have unchecked notifications. How would you feel when you go offline a few minutes ago with no unchecked notification, and you come back online to see 10 new notifications that are about only tagging? Some people tag friends unnecessarily. They tag people to what doesn’t interest them.
It annoys some people when you tag them to what they have no business with. So, they either don’t check the notification or they check and click on the back button immediately without giving the update any like or comment. When you now tag them frequently, it makes them feel uncomfortable and some can to the extent of unfriending you or blocking you. Some might even report you to Facebook, and this is very dangerous.
The idea is now left to you, whether to tag a particular friend or not. Haven’t you seen someone having much likes and comments without tagging a single friend? How do they do it? The answer is that they have gotten people well engaged in their updates. And this is exactly what I discussed in this post - HoW To Get Friends Well Engaged In Your Facebook Posts.
Do you have a personal reason why people don't like or comment on your Facebook updates? Let us know via the comments.
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