This Is The Impact If You Are Desperate To Buy Fake Followers For Social Media!

JAKARTA - Social media (social media) is often a place to share stories through photos and videos. But now it is not uncommon to find social media users who often make it a place to show off in cyberspace.

In order to increase prestige, users are willing to buy followers (followers) to look cool in front of their friends. For business accounts, usually to look trusted in front of their potential customers or customers.

Sometimes, consumers trust online stores that have many followers more than those with few. And vice versa if they want to do endorsements, online stores usually target influencers or celebrities who have a large number of followers.

In fact, social media companies prohibit users from buying followers. Like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and others always keep an eye on accounts that have suspicious activity. In fact, the social media giant also anticipated by temporarily freezing accounts caught buying followers.

Besides being able to harm your social media accounts, one of which is Instagram, here are other dangers when you choose to buy followers that VOI quoted from the Ministry's official Instagram.

Communication and Informatics (Kemenkominfo) namely @kemenkominfo, Monday 19 July.

1. Interaction Gets Low

Buying followers only makes the number of followers increase, but interaction between users will be low because followers are bot accounts, not real users.

2. Difficult to Measure Performance

Instagram accounts that have fake followers make performance difficult to measure based on data. One of them, the number of interactions that are inappropriate or relatively small compared to the high number of followers.

3. Lowering Reputation

Fake followers will be very easy to track. Other users can directly check for fake accounts with certain characteristics or use fake followers percentage tools.

Don't let fake followers drop the image that you worked so hard to build!

4. Prone to Suspend or Account Blocking

Social media platforms often check suspected accounts. If an account is detected to have fake and unnatural followers, it is possible that social media will block it immediately.