New Media Issues - Buying Followers

There is several new media issues. However, this post will specifically talks about the issue of buying followers which is more towards the credibility issue. The followers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and etc could be easily purchase by just paying a cheap price, this is one of the new online phenomenon that had been practiced by some people / organization.

Here is a example that shows how buying followers can easily been done.

Those peoples / organizations buy fake followers in order to boost a number of follower in their social media platform. The high number of followers could be a popular approach as the peoples / organizations as the others will think that it already has it's own popularity and they will want to follow as well.

The example of an obvious buying followers

 However, number aren't anything. The high number of the follower is does not means that there is a high engagement between the organization and the followers. Besides, when the social media has been found out that the followers is actually bought which is very immorality, the reputation of one's will be decrease.