Social media is a cesspool of questionable human behaviour. 

Why so many majnus online

For centuries the women of this subcontinent have taken upon themselves not to educate their boys about inappropriate behavior. Ancient family support system means that there will be a couple of boys in a family who will survive without any gainful employment. Universities are like factories churning out hundreds of graduates every year. Many of these IT engineers do digital marketing in their spare time and also join the majnu squad.

Are women encouraging majnus

Not intentionally, but yes at-least in the beginning stages. This is what exactly happened in the Utsav episode. As a comedian he got instant fame overnight. So when his female fans started sending messages of appreciation or regular fan messages he responded by asking for inappropriate pics in return. One woman came out in the open and then there was an avalanche of messages from other women who had been at the receiving end of his behavior. Screenshots of all these messages were posted on Twitter. Till date he defends his behavior because he felt entitled to them.

A guy with good looks, promise of a great conversation is all like a magnetic attraction to many women. And getting appreciated is like a cherry on the cake. But for most of these dudes, this is just a game.

Step to take care of this online problem

Have you always felt that women are always the focus of online attention. As a women entrepreneur were you ever surprised that on your purely business accounts with product and services posts, you still get direct messages for franship (pun intended!!!). Let us understand this issue with the help of an example and a solution.

A 22 year old woman had uninstalled Facebook app due to too much of stress. She tried just once to reinstall it, but the amount of messages just hung up her smartphone. We took upon the work of sanitizing her account of majnu virus and let her focus on getting customers through online engagement.

The first step was to log into the account at 1am. This is the time when majnus get active. On seeing the green light, at least a hundred chat windows popped up. Some of them straightway jumped to video calls. We had recently launched a product page for this woman entrepreneur. One by one we send links of the website pages asking them to read the article and comment on the product. More than 50% chatters simply left, some of them even without saying good bye. Till morning just one persisted after reading five articles. We kicked out these friends and banned them too.

Majnus log in between 1am to 2 am at night. Once they send a chat hi, just block and ban them.

This activity continued for one solid week. By day 5, the number of open chat windows fell to just three to four. By day 7 all was quiet on the battle front. Facebook had also learned that this account is going to block and ban majnus. Yes, there is something called as suggested friends which Facebook does to keep your life miserable. Facebook and Instagram will never quit to forward your account details as suggested friends to majnus. But if you are firm enough to kick out and ban such accounts, the frequency of majnus reaching your account will drop to a trickle and eventually disappear. As entrepreneurs you will need to make space for these people to go out so that you can get real customers.

The next step was deleting all pending friends request and blocking all fake profiles.

Fake profiles are easy to detect. Either no profile picture or thin content or no content. Do not allow such accounts to remain in your friend list. Kick them out.

On Instagram remove all fake profiles and anyone who has no business of being one of your followers. Report and Block the account and make social media a safer place for other women.

It is quite evident that this is a fake profile. But at least 472 followers do not think so, most of them are women followers. Do not encourage such behavior. You might be a seasoned person handling Majnus on social media but imagine the traumatic experience young girls will go through after YOU have encouraged such fake profiles. Because these people will stop at nothing till they get a response. Not everyone is as strong as your are. Women who have been on social media for years may find this experience harrowing.

If such profiles comment on your post, delete the comment immediately and block the person.

Majnus are time wasters no matter how handsome.

Agreed majnus are good conversation starters but as entrepreneurs you will end up wasting time. There is no growth with a majnu because he only wants everything without giving anything back in return. They have mastered the art of how to win over people and leave them soon enough.

Good guys finish last, and they are always difficult to find.

Good guys are the ones who will encourage your work. They will read your posts and comment on them. They will share your work and create new business opportunities for you. Make one of them your friend and see each other grow. Where to find these good guys. They are around, but with so many majnus crowded around, they are not easily visible. If you do find one, don’t let them go because they aren’t exactly looking for “franship“

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Most of the Instagrammers are there for social visibility. For them likes and followers are of paramount importance. So lets begin with the steps that will take you to Instagram stardom.

Basic data – Fill it up

Instagram profile consists of bits and pieces of information which should be filled up. Name, Username, Category (for business), Website and Bio. Completely fill up the 150 letters in bio. You can use hashtags in your bio. Profile picture is a must and use an image which is bright and clear.

Call button can be configured with either mobile number or email address. It is nice addition to the main screen and sits snugly next to the message button.

Use story highlights to get attention

Stories are for 24 hours. A story can be saved as a highlight. Your story highlights stay forever on your profile, at the most eye catching place.

Share you Instagram profile link

Once in a while you need to share your Instagram profile to someone on messengers like WhatsApp or on Facebook. On the profile page click on the three drops on top right to get the options.

Use the option of copy profile URL. If you add some text introducing yourself and what your profile provides, it will be a bit more attractive.

Content is King

Social media apps are no longer simple lines of code. Complex AI algorithms run by powerful supercomputers analyze each content for originality and viral-bility. Focus on the following.

• Bright and bold pictures. Lots of colour and enough detailing.
• Stabilized videos (use in-phone app if available or use Google Photos).
• Professional video-graphers must invest in a good phone gimbal.
• Use highest resolution for clicking pics and videos. Many phones are not set for HD or 4K shooting by default because of the battery drain they cause.
• Focus on the captions. Creative captions speak a lot. If there is a long story to be told, go on and say it.
• Use icons and smileys wherever needed.
• Hashtags are the key to post getting to the right people. Use them sensibly. Do a hashtag research of how others are using and which ones are trending.

How to increase followers on Instagram

• In case of a personal account, start with your known friends and relatives. You will keep getting suggestions from Instagram to follow certain people. This is pretty accurate.
• Your place of work or your college is your next step. Make sure you follow each and every colleague and classmate. In case of college, classmates will respond almost immediately.
• Be a part of your school and college alumni. Each batch or maybe the whole college will have Alumni group. Be part of these groups and let them know you are on Instagram. Everyone has a strong bond with batch-mates and they will be followers for life.
• As service provider or business person, keep a list of clients, both present and former saved as your phone contacts. Instagram will ask for access to your contact list and pick up who all is already on Instagram. In a similar manner keep in touch with your supplier, distributors and other service providers.
• Follow your competitors on what they are posting and how they approach clients. Poach their followers and all those who are liking their posts.
• Create captivating stories and tag people in your posts.
• Finally – do not forget to like others posts and appreciate their work by dropping a comment. I have heard enough people drag with the explanation that I will like only those posts which interests me. And I know for sure, they end up liking nothing other than their own.

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Steps to connect Instagram app with Facebook

To begin with go to Options in your Instagram App. You can access options by clicking on the three black dots on the top right on profile page.

Under Options scroll down to go to settings. Here you will find Linked Accounts under Settings.

The account linking options to various social media is listed. If your social option is not in the list, then it cannot be connected. Facebook option is right on top.

On clicking Facebook, you will be asked to login to your Facebook account. A further prompt will ask confirmation for posting on Facebook. This is basically a request from Facebook.

Once the linkup is complete, Facebook options in Instagram app will show the following.

Sharing options for Facebook

Facebook is a sharing your activities on a timeline with friends and followers. If you have just a Facebook account, then your Instagram pictures or videos go straight to your timeline. They can be read by your friends and followers or everybody as per your privacy settings.

But in case of bloggers, most of us have a Facebook page too. In my case, I have two Facebook pages which are shown in the options below timeline. All the pages where you are the owner or admin will be shown under timeline. You can now change the place where the Instagram post will be displayed.

Note that Instagram post can only be shown either on the timeline or page, but not both.

The final check

Once connecting Instagram with Facebook Page is completed, we can check how it posts on Facebook. As per our setting it should post on the Facebook page and not on the Timeline.

Facebook provides a simple set of instructions to follow while linking the Facebook account with Instagram

https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/356902681064399?helpref=uf_permalink

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What is Instagram

Instagram is primarily a smart phone app. It has been designed to be used only on a smart phone. Photos can either be clicked though the phone camera or can be selected from the gallery. The front camera is the primary instrument of choice for selfies which are quite popular on Instagram.

Copyright and privacy concerns have been given the highest importance and hence you cannot download images from Instagram, not even your own images.

How to use Instagram

Primarily two steps involved over here

• Uploading of images
• Following friends or people with similar interests

Instagram has Five primary buttons at the bottom to help you navigate through the app.

• Home button where the images and videos of people you follow appear as they keep posting.
• Search button to find everything from People, Tags and Places. It also displays search history.
• Camera button. This one is aptly placed in the center for easier access. It allows you to click photos, videos or choose from the gallery.
• Like button shows you history of likes of your followers and you.
• Profile button where you can see images uploaded by you as a gallery and also profile settings.

The design is clutter free and easy to use. When you see images or clips posted by the people whom you follow you can either like them or comment on them. The like button is in the shape of a heart and once you click on it the heart shape turns red. You can also send a direct message to your follower or friend. You can also selectively turn on notifications for specific people.

How can bloggers use Instagram

In case of Bloggers it is all about connecting and links. Both are dealt with in a subtle manner in Instagram. Check out the following options available to Bloggers

In the profile, Instagram allows a link to your website. The link is clickable and opens the website in the mobile browser of the user.

It also allows you to display your user name and a brief about yourself and your profile picture. All this can give instant recognition to a Blogger. You can connect with social media accounts like Twitter and Facebook and your photos or clips are posted there too. You need to link your accounts and give necessary permissions first.

First you choose a photo from the gallery, next key in the key information like location, description and tag people and you can also choose which social account it can be posted as an Instagram upload.

After the image is uploaded, it is visible in your feed and also to the social account where it was linked.

# and @ on Instagram

@ tag is for people and # tag is for posts, to put it simply. In case of hash tag or # tag, Instagram will allot a page to the tag so that all the posts which mention that tag will come on the same page. Tags are another powerful weapon in the arsenal when bloggers use Instagram.

In case of the above image, I have inserted the hash tag thetimelock. It can be inserted in the image info or comment. Here is how the results are visible in Instagram.

To understand hash tag in detail here is a FAQ from the official Instagram help.

https://help.instagram.com/351460621611097

The @ tag is linked with people using Instagram. So when you use @ and start typing in the name of a person, it will be visible in the search results. Same like # tag you can use the @ tag in a comment or in the image info.

Conclusion and Summing Up

Many bloggers use Instagram to showcase their post. A blogger can use Instagram to connect with people and with its clutter free design, it is sure to attract more attention to your picture.

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