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Facebook Hates Fun So the Party is Moving Elsewhere
For several months now we’ve been giving away free tees to our Facebook fans. Unfortunately, this now has to change because Facebook has pretty much banned contests and sweepstakes on Facebook. Not to worry, I still want to give y’all opportunities to get free swag, so the party is moving over here to my blog. Why the blog?
For starters, no jerkfaces can tell us what is and isn’t allowed on the blog.
Second, more chances to win stuff!
Moving forward, to be eligible to win a free tee each month, all you have to do is comment on my blog posts. Comment as often as you like and I’ll pick a favorite comment each month and send off a free tee. You guys can also nominate a “best comment of the month” by clicking the thumbs up icon next to comments you like. It’ll be like Rocky Horror Picture Show up in here, minus the hairy men in lingerie of course, unless you like that kind of thing, in which case I aim to please.
Also, in an effort to give you guys some fodder I’ve worked out a rough new format for blog postin’. My plan as of now is:
Mystery Mondays – a free form day of rants, photos, videos, whatevs’
Title This Tuesdays – I find the photo, you guys provide the caption
WTF Wednesdays – News of the weird, bizarre products, strange art, things that make you go WTF?
Thirsty Thursdays – An ode to my BFF booze
Fuzzy Fridays – Pics and videos of cute critters
Can you tell I love alliteration? Yup, I’m a dork.
Since it’s Tuesday, my first “Title This” post is coming right up in a few.
That’s pretty lame of Facebook to ban giveaways like that. I could understand not wanting users to run a million-dollar raffle or pyramid scam, but this is just a couple of t-shirts. It shouldn’t open up any liability for them.
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Comment by Xopher — December 1, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
I agree. I think if liability was their concern they’d cap sweepstakes over a certain dollar value, but actually I don’t think that’s their concern. I think they only want to cater go mega-corporations who will spend hundreds of thousands in advertising with them and their preferred vendors. This is about them making money and not really wanting anything to do with small businesses. It’s too bad because it doesn’t just hinder small business, it makes Facebook a little less fun for users. I know as a user on Facebook I like interacting with smaller brands and this move is certainly an effort to inhibit that.
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Comment by ex-boyfriend — December 1, 2009 @ 4:54 pm