Facebook Live Video is So Overrated!

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The key to successful social media marketing is not only staying abreast and adapting to technical changes or advancements but it’s also finding your voice and strengthening it. I personally HATE Live Facebook videos for so many reasons! Do I feel they can help some people? Yes but they are not for everyone — I happen to be part of the rising number.

Here’s why I hate Facebook Live Video:

1. Time-consuming – I can’t fast-forward to the meat
2. Pushed down our throats – I literally have multiple friends all going live at once, I’d have to try to figure out who’s really talking about something and not just pushing their business
3. Can’t multitask – no I won’t be pressing a 1, 2, 3 or whatever else you instruct me to do because I probably won’t even be holding my phone
4. Too salesy – Facebook has now even included a way to mark the video as spam WHILE it’s occurring so obviously many others have a problem with this as well

At the time of this audio, I didn’t realize Gary Vaynerchuk had made a blog months ago about the same thing. I was in the process of uploading the audio to this blog and saw he made a Facebook post today addressing the same thing. If you’d like to check out his article, please read The Rise of Audio & Voice.

Gary explains it from a numbers perspective and I’m explaining it from more of a psychological/consumer standpoint.

I think it’s the perfect example of “if it doesn’t make dollars, it doesn’t make sense.” LOL lame humor, I know — we’re all allowed to have our moment.

Alternatives to Facebook Live Video:

1. Facebook Live Audio – let’s users know they don’t have to give undivided attention
2. Blog
3. Podcast
4. Webinar
5. Downloadable PDFs
6. Conference Call
7. Facebook/Instagram/SnapChat stories — usually shorter in length so you get to the point and get audience engaged
8. YouTube

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