If facebook fans aren’t real friends, does that make facebook fans not real fans?
I’ll have to think about that one.
At any rate, I have a facebook fan page. Which, up until a couple of days ago, had a respectable but not overwhelming number of fans. It was a little under a hundred. My ego was slightly caressed, but nowhere near inflated. I started putting my gigs in facebook and it was more effective than sending emails out to my mailing list. I was thoroughly satisfied with my facebook fan page experience.
That is, until facebook started letting people have vanity URLs. So, instead of being www.facebook.com/pages/Hope-Roth/33965014123, my facebook page could be www.facebook.com/hopeISsoTOTALLYfuckingAWESOME. Much easier for putting into emails and whatnot.
Except that you need to have 1,000 fans to get one of them thar fancy web addresses.
If I had 1,000 fans, I don’t think that I’d be so concerned with how easy/difficult it was to find my fan page.
Anyways, I posted something on my wall about how I needed 910 new fans to get a fancy URL. And some folks took it as a challenge.
I’ve already doubled my fan base.
Sure, 2x a pretty damn small number isn’t so impressive, but it’s only been about 32 hours. And this was all friends and fans taking the initiative to get the word out all on their very own.
Very little nudging on my part.
I barely even used the cattle prod.
For someone who claims to be an egomaniac, I always find myself incredibly touched when people go out of their way to do things on my behalf.
Anyways, I now see it as a personal challenge to get myself 1,000 fans on facebook. The fact that some of them might accidentally click the play button and listen to one of my songs and then consider buying Beer and Pie is just an added bonus.
So, yeah, won’t you be my fan?
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