Yesterday, The
Pearl Guide held the second KlaPhotoMarket at Yasigi beer gardens; prior to the
event there was a competition of sorts where winners were to win photo frames.
In order to
win, a person had to have the most likes on Instagram and retweets on Twitter.
Granted St.
Noa Junior Boarding School Zana Kibuye, Entebbe Road might not have been the
best place to learn English however Ms. Nanyunja and my awesome family made it
possible for me to be in a position to question an arrangement like this.
These kinds
of competitions are on the rise so how is one expected to stand a winning
chance if they have significantly less followers than others because it is
after all those followers that like or retweet the posts?
This all
comes down to whether your followers like you, as a person or are bothered
enough to do the needful. I don’t know about you but that’s a combination of
unnecessary pressure and leaving things to chance which is just a NO-NO.
What happened
to the good all days when competitions were fair and square for all the
participants? When one won on the basis that they met the criteria and not
because they have the kind of vibe that not only makes people follow them in
the first place but also ensures that the people do not unfollow after a time t.
One might
say that the people who go ahead to lobby for likes and retweets deserve to
win, but I think that’s just sad.
Off the top
of my head, I can’t think of a better way for these social media competitions
to choose the winners but surely there are many ways of killing a rat.
I am not
only saying this because I really wanted to win a frame but because I would have
loved to have a real chance at winning it.
I’ll just go
back to my wall without a frame!
Labels: KlaPhotoMarket, Social Media
