Granted, I'm not speaking from a business owner POV, but there are some folks - as nice as they are -that tend to always send me the canned responses, and while I appreciate that little point of engagement, I prefer a wordier comment or a comment that leads to genuine conversation, sure. One person - she's a nice gal! - but when I get an alert that she's commented on my photo, I know it's going to be the same canned 'So yummy" comment...because she's sent me that comment 100 times before. (If I counted, that would likely be close to the actual number!) It does drive me a little batty, though I do try to engage her more through a follow-up comment...which is usually just replied to with a smiley-face emoji. Hey, I did my due diligence by that point, ha!
Of course, I'm guilty of sending the heart-eyes emoji as a comment every now and then; for me, I tend to do it when I genuinely like a piece of content, but no longer have the mental power that day to come up with something more verbose. Ha! Though I do understand the point you're making here. :-)
Yea we're all guilty of sending the lazy comments sometimes! But I think the main thing we lost over time with social media is the "social" element. It used to be about conversations but now it's about marketing (more so than anything else). And that's fine, but I think that's the reality.
Granted, I'm not speaking from a business owner POV, but there are some folks - as nice as they are -that tend to always send me the canned responses, and while I appreciate that little point of engagement, I prefer a wordier comment or a comment that leads to genuine conversation, sure. One person - she's a nice gal! - but when I get an alert that she's commented on my photo, I know it's going to be the same canned 'So yummy" comment...because she's sent me that comment 100 times before. (If I counted, that would likely be close to the actual number!) It does drive me a little batty, though I do try to engage her more through a follow-up comment...which is usually just replied to with a smiley-face emoji. Hey, I did my due diligence by that point, ha!
Of course, I'm guilty of sending the heart-eyes emoji as a comment every now and then; for me, I tend to do it when I genuinely like a piece of content, but no longer have the mental power that day to come up with something more verbose. Ha! Though I do understand the point you're making here. :-)
Yea we're all guilty of sending the lazy comments sometimes! But I think the main thing we lost over time with social media is the "social" element. It used to be about conversations but now it's about marketing (more so than anything else). And that's fine, but I think that's the reality.