Recently there's been a small Facebook craze among my friends. Basically it's a contest in FB where one can win a prize if his/her comment for that contest garnered the most LIKES. The tricky part is that the LIKE button cant be linked, and that the supporters had to like the fan page, the contest post and the user's post. That's 3 likes for you, that can't be linked.

Andy and i decided to see how powerful social media can be. He took part by posting a comment for that contest, and i'm supposed to help him garner votes. I have a dummy acct with close to 5000 friends for playing Castle Age, and i was to spam these poor 5000 souls to try and get them to LIKE Andy's comment.

3 methods were tried and their responses:
1. Status post on my wall. <5 responses.
2. Create an event and add 1000 people to it, then spam an event message. <5 responses.
3. Spam the wall of all the groups (Castle Age related cos thats all i have). Nil.

Method 2's response rate was faster compared to 1. I think it's easier if one can somehow PM everybody and get them to really read what you want them to read. On the other hand, a status update will be buried under the multitude of other people's random crap that nobody gets to read what you want to say. And after all, you are a gaming acct which nobody will bother to pay attn to.

Method 1 can work if there are a lot comments on the status update which will help bump it up and become part of the top news. But i'm not very sure how the top news mechanism work.

So far, Andy has 28 LIKES, 20 of which is his own and his 19 dummy accounts. Response isn't really that good as opposed to our other friends who have about 100 LIKES that they acquired by asking their personal friends.

But i find it interesting that online strangers would actually bother to help you. And admittedly it's quite troublesome to help as well. Either they are bored, curious or just genuinely nice. I'll take whatever i get.

If you are reading this and interested to help:
1: Go to "http://www.facebook.com/playworksonline" and LIKE the page.
2: Go to "http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=190234200990267&id=135743236446176"
3: LIKE the post "Contest: Tell us why your life would be better with a Razer Starcraft 2 Banshee Gaming Headset"
4: Look for Andy Ng Fu Leong's post and LIKE it.