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It's an interesting topic to me. I've worked places where the whole team happily liked, upvoted, and retweeted company posts, as we were all rather excited abou
by jmccree 13y ago
It's an interesting topic to me. I've worked places where the whole team happily liked, upvoted, and retweeted company posts, as we were all rather excited about the posts ourselves. Messages might get sent out like "Hey, everyone like our new FB page!". Especially in a startup, I don't generally have a problem with being asked to help promote things.
On the other hand, at one place an email went out saying everyone was required to make a tweet or fb post about our new promotion. I immediately went to my manager and said there was no way that was happening by me, and as many of us in the company had overlapping social networks, it would be very transparent and spammy looking to outsiders. The language was changed to "highly suggested" and I was never bothered about it again, but it left a bad taste.
Gently asking for a like or upvote is one thing, but I'm not writing or posting anything on my personal accounts on behalf of the company.
- dangero 13y agoThat was exactly what had changed for me that day. I had already liked the company on my Facebook page out of choice and was perfectly happy to genuinely show support in my own way. Telling me at what hour I needed to post a particular link to my Facebook page was way over the line for me. It also did not work in the long run. It sent me violently in the other direction of removing all my genuine support. All that said, there were other staff members who did not seem to be bothered. In fact, I was the ONLY person on the team who showed any alarm, so maybe it is partially a personality thing.