number one in model search

There has been a surge in competitions on Facebook. Apart from the obvious popularity of Facebook, the reasons for this are mainly two-fold. Firstly, it’s relatively easy to set up a competition on Facebook. Secondly, if the competition asks you to Like the page, it’s viral – your Facebook friends may well notice the Like and check out the Facebook page and perhaps enter too.

However, Facebook competitions are largely unregulated – many or most do not have the relevant state competition trade permits and many use the Facebook Like button as a voting mechanism for a promotion, which is a breach of the Facebook Promotions Guidelines (Point 5).

lottos members have complained about the conduct of some promoters.

In this case (link), an issue where a words or less answer requirement was over the stated maximum of 25.

Another situation is where some Facebook competitions have stated the person with the most ‘Likes’ would win. An individual has the most Likes, another Facebook user complains to the promoter that the winner is a Comper and the winner is disqualified. What’s with that? The promoter was running a competition – obviously they are going to get entries from people that like entering comps!

Be aware that entering Facebook competitions can lead to disappointment. Even if the above scenarios do not affect you, you have another hurdle to overcome and that is the professional Like brigade, where Facebook groups and websites, usually international, have been set up specifically to trade Likes in competitions and sweepstakes between people that are not usually even known to each other.

Lucky Roland in the picture (left), is currently running at number one in the “Make me the Next Model” competition, thanks to the users of Football365 and Reddit when they posted links to his entry’s page on those websites.

Speaking of Facebook competitions, have you joined our Facebook competitions page yet?

For more in-depth and frequent competition topics, along with thousands of regular competitions listed, visit the lottos competitions forum.