I have a question and it is one word... 'WHY?'
It makes no sense to me. I have had a presence on Instagram for 5 years now. I have, admittedly, dipped in and out and I am by no means a serious 'blogger' or 'Infuencer' (Shite term if ever there was one.)
I started when a lot of the now 'Insta Royalty' began their Instagram journeys. I am not remotely bitter as they have all worked their socks off. All credit to them. What makes me balk is the number of accounts that amazingly gain thousands of followers, seemingly, overnight. Well, ok, not overnight but over a slim few months. I post regularly. I use stories, heck I even do the odd sponsored post and I am still a good 1200 away from the holy grail of 10K. I may never reach it but, if I am being totally honest, I am not devastated about this because I know a large proportion of my followers are genuine. I am followed by some great accounts and I am thrilled that we interact in a witty, kind, generous way.
I use an analytics tool to check on my status and growth. I do this because it interests the nosey sod in me. It also tells me that not all of my followers are genuine and I know this to be fact. It is easy to tell the robots out there and they fall by the wayside pretty quickly. They do this, of course, unless you happen to be paying for their presence. I believe that companies use real accounts but ones that have been set up to hike figures. A women, who shall remain nameless, once contacted me to say that she could spike my likes on my previous days post. Before I could respond she then prompted me to take a look at it. The likes had gone through the roof and I told her to stop, immediately. She did but the extra likes took a couple of weeks to disappear. I was incredibly cross. Bloody cheek. It is not my style and anyone who does it should be ashamed of themselves. It's like buying a husband, well not quite like buying a spouse but you know what I mean. These 'pushers' can be quite forceful and borderline aggressive if you turn them down. NOT ON! I also observe that these types have followers in the hundreds rather than the thousands??? Confused dot com.
So how do you spot the fake/dodgy accounts. Easy, they love flowers. They like using nothing but emojis, although I am guilty of using many of them too. They comment with stunners like:- hey beautiful or lots of bunches of flowers, did I say they adore flowers. You can sometimes get a solitary 'hot' flame or a huge sentence in a foreign language. A kiss and the tulip are also favoured. I could go on but I think you have more than likely seen them.
Sore thumb springs to mind!
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| A nice array of dodgy accounts |
This bee will always buzz round my bonnet I'm afraid.
I'll just keep posting and commenting and, generally, having a lot of fun with this platform. I have to try and ignore some of the dishonesty and blagging. I am surprised that retailers don't look into individual accounts with a bit more scrutiny. You will notice engagement drop when they try and run a 'competition.' Bots don't understand competition instructions and rules.
Get using genuine Instagram accounts with real followers!!
Here is a bit of a roundup of my favourite outfits. I have to say that I am still very much enamoured with GrungeMama. I have also been very pleased with some recent purchases of jeans from Zara and my brown Mango boots are so useful. A BIG thumbs up for them. I don't like shopping in H&M stores but adore the online experience. I am about to try on some tops that arrived today. My Mothers Day gift, to myself, was the latest in a line of Holland Cooper blazers that love living in my wardrobe.
I have also decided to start an Instagram hashtag, the details of which are on my Insta profile page.
It is just for fun because at my age I really do try to 'ROCK IT' everyday.
Love and Peace. Helen. XxX
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