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Interesting because "technically"under Facebook terms of use Promoters are not allowed to ask people to "like and share" or "tag a friend" yet so many companies do. In fact nearly all of them and they encourage it to promote their brand. I think the onus is back on the promoter to stop asking people to do it in the first place not that that will ever happen.....! Hope everyone has a fantastic and lucky day!

Yeah interesting, Also Facebook updated their platform in November 2014 and the rules say that Promoters can't ask you to like their page in order to enter a competition. Yet most do and to be honest I like them anyway because I like their competition. Promoters are a creative lot and on a mission to get their product out there and tend to gloss over the rules a bit.

From Facebook competitions Dos and Don'ts.......

"You can collect entries either by having people post on your page or like/comment on a PAGE POST by sending a message to your page; or by utilising likes as a voting mechanism. What you cannot do, however, is ask users to share a post on their own timelines or the timelines of their friends or tag themselves in a picture they are not depicted in."

I agree with most of you ^^^^ I back out of those comps too, as even just yesterday I saw someone who'd tagged about 30 people in a row. I also HATE 'the most likes wins' comps. There's people that PAY on other sites for their votes. And as for 'you must share', I click out of them as well. My Facebook is my way of keeping in touch with family and friends, I'm not going to spam them all with competition tags. But there is a lot of people who only use Facebook for comping, so each to their own, but it does make it harder to win things, unless you want to irritate crap out of Facebook friends. It's also very rare to NOT see 'you must share this to be entered in the competition'. Ummm, no I must NOT, so seeya later. I can see page owners points in trying to get their product out there, but annoying people, isn't the way to do it. Anyway, like I said, each to their own

@roobycat We think alike. I only 'share' with my sister which probably negates my entry anyway. If I tagged all my friends they would choke me!

I was put off FB comps all together at first but have decided my friends have no qualms about posting photos of their dinner or endless motivation memes so I am ok with sharing. I back out of the tagging thing though because I don't have any friends who are understanding enough to be singled out.

Yes @TinaC I agree totally and interestingly enough is IS banned . Facebook says that promoters can have their business facebook pages cancelled if they ask people to like,tag or share in a competition but enforcing it is another thing.