Getting friends and other audience members to interact with your social media content can be challenging. It is no secret that a large amount of those in the social media realm are more focused on obtaining interaction with their content and not on interacting with the content of their friends.

How can this be changed, or can it?

Yes, It Starts With You.

Take a few minutes each time you log in to your social media account/s to scroll through recent posts by your friends and followers.

1. Write a quick comment to the posts you view
2. Click Like on all content of interest (posts, links, photos, videos, albums, events, etc.)
3. Share their content with your friends
4. Retweet so your community can share in the content
5. #Hashtag and @theiraccount to reference friends in your future tweets
6. Recommend Pages and services to your friends
7. Respond to Event invites and Page recommendations
8. Comment on blog posts with your point of view
9. Utilize share tools on blog content to send it to your stream

Do You Want Others to Comment on Your Content?

1. Regularly do what is listed above
2. Say something beneficial to your audience
3. Post content when your audience is watching
4. Spread out new posts over time instead of all at once
5. Share your Page content in your personal account stream

The point of using social media is to share content with friends and followers and obtain their feedback. If we’re always focused on what we want to say about us, then we lose the social aspect to the medium.

By changing the way you act when in social media, you’ll find that others will begin to interact with you more often.