The more popularity blogging gains, the more people start to blog and the more popularity blogs get the more bloggers feel inclined to hold a giveaway. Giveaways usually occur when blogs reach a certain milestone, generally a certain number of followers or a blogs anniversary.
Now I am all for giveaways, everyone likes a freebie don't they! What I am not liking these days is what you have to do to enter these giveaways.
Bloggers usually start a giveaway by saying that to say thank you they are giving something away to us. They then proceed to explain the giveaway 'rules'. The word giveaway to me indicates us gaining something with ease. This is not the case.
Generally, these days to enter a giveaway you have to leave a comment, follow the blogger on GFC or another site, follow the blogger on twitter, tweet about the giveaway, write a blog post about the giveaway and follow facebook pages.
This completely puts me off! Generally the only giveaways I will enter will be where I only have to be a follower and leave a comment this is mainly because I don't understand why we have to do a million things when we can just do two and still have the name chance as before.
I am getting increasingly frustrated these days with giveaways as my Twitter feed is just getting in and dated with tweets about giveaways and it's not just the odd one, it's around 20 at a time.
I suppose the point I am trying to make is that I think bloggers are taking giveaways a bit too far and surely as long as we are following their blogs and comment surely that's entry enough as it is after all supposed to be a thank you for following.
What do you think about giveaways? Do you use giveaway 'rules' when you hold them?
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