Tripping Over You - Facebook

TOYs Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/toythecomic

Impact – Facebook being the largest social media platform to date, also having more than 1 billion users it’s one of the perfect places to post updates about work they are currently doing, it’s also a great place to make connections because everyone and their grandma is on Facebook and if you meet enough people your bound to make connections (on a side note 98% of the population of Iceland are on Facebook that’s over 310000 people).

Allot of people who are looking to hire artists also check their online presence and if you’ve got work on social media websites and have a large following you’re more likely to get noticed, because Facebook works on likes every person who likes something on tripping over yours page gets that thing shared on their page, therefore getting more publicity for TOY and because their page has links to other sites such as twitter and their website and vice versa they get even more publicity.

Pros –

• It’s easy to start an account and there is more than one form of account for example it can be a public figure account or a brand etc.

• There is no word count to posts and videos and images can be posted alongside text, this allows creators to have free reign on how they want to inform the public.

Cons –

• Anything posted on Facebook is there for life even if you delete it there will always be traces of it if you look hard enough.

• Anyone can be anyone on Facebook unlike twitter there is no certification so there is no way to check if it’s the real deal or not.

Ease of access of platforms – twitter can be viewed on any webpage and there is a mobile app

Transferability to others - Facebook is great for creators to create specific pages that actor for their brand as I said there are different types of pages you can create with pages like TOYs they created an entertainment website page, with Facebook you can also post on twitter and Facebook at the same time it’s great for people/brands to share their work or news with people on more than one network.

Facebook is also very social media friendly you can have numerous other websites linked to one account for example you can post on twitter as well as Facebook via Facebook also you can link your Instagram and Tumblr gallery’s all into one account which makes it very ease of access for both the creator and view as they can see all of the things that specific page is doing, this is a great way for new brands and creators to start out due to its connectivity and approachability.