The Viral Path on Facebook
Updated: February 2, 2016. Social Media is often just a tool to connect with friends and family, but every once in awhile you post something that goes viral. The tools used to determine if a post is viral are all relative to the expected reach of a user. A user with a million followers would need many millions of views for the post to be viral. Basically if your Facebook post has a Reach that is 5 times the number of those that follow your Page then the post has gone viral. There is no method to determine what people will find interesting enough to share or retweet or copy. Sometimes it is a video of a British child saying, "Charlie bit my finger." Sometimes it is a meme of what old people say. Sometimes it is uplifting and sometimes it is degrading. Sometimes comical and sometimes sentimental. I want to share with you how one of the posts from our church Facebook Page went viral. It started as just one of the many hundreds of daily posts that we put up. We have found t...