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So, What Is AddMeFast?

AddMeFast promises a quick, painless way of getting more likes, shares and follows across a number of social networks. In basic terms it is a social ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’ kind of system. Users choose to either like, share or follow other users on popular social networks (such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Instagram) and for that they are awarded points. They can then use these points to get people to do the same on their profiles; it’s a social media transaction.

I’m always cautious about being a human Guinea pig by testing these kinds of things out and you should be too. After all, the whole reason you would want to use a service like AddMeFast is to get more likes and followers so you can share the things you care about with the world. What if something were to go wrong, would you lose everything you’ve worked hard to build? In order to satisfy my curiosity and to hopefully help some of you out I decided to find out.

Reviewing The AddMeFast Platform

So I will be discussing what I believe are the advantages and the disadvantages of using AddMeFast. This extensive review should give you enough information about AddMeFast, combined with my own insight, to help you make your own mind up. However, everyone’s needs are different and you should do your own research too before making any decisions.

Like I said before, AddMeFast is a platform that helps you get likes, shares and follows on a number of social networks. The full list of social networks, as of April 2016, are: Facebook, Vine, Google Plus, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Ask.fm, Pinterest, Soundcloud, StumbleUpon, Myspace [yep, apparently it’s still a thing],  Vkontakte, Reverbnation and any other website*. The fundamental concept is very simple: you interact with someone’s social profile and you gain points which you can exchange for someone to interact with you. The idea is that you can increase your social followers or get more likes/retweets/shares by repeating these actions over and over.

*You can choose any website to send clicks to. So if I wanted more traffic to www.brettworth.com for example I could put my address in and let people earn points for viewing it.

So, Is It Actually Useful? And Does It Work?

I started writing this review because I wanted to find out if it worked and see exactly what happens during the process (and to see if it would destroy my social media accounts).

So I signed up and chose the social network I wanted to boost – I went for Instagram. As a starting bonus you are given 150 points to help get you going but I decided to leave them alone while I checked out what you had to do to get more points.

Testing AddMeFast With Instagram

Getting points is simple enough, you choose one of the services from the list on the left hand side, ‘Instragram Likes’ for example, and then the page refreshes with a link for you to click. Above the link it tells you how many points ‘liking’ the image will be worth but doesn’t show you the image yet. So I went ahead and clicked the link and a window pops up that takes you to the image on Instagram. I tapped the little familiar heart button to ‘like’ the photo and then I closed the pop up.

Success!

The page refreshed and let me know I just received 9 points and then it proceeded to show me another link to click that is worth 6 points. I repeated the process and another 6 points were easily added to my account. It seems simple enough, right? Now I wanted to see what my hard earned points would get me…

In the left hand menu I chose ‘My Sites’ and I set up my first campaign. I don’t think they call it a campaign but essentially that’s what it is so that’s what I’ll be calling it from here on out. I set up my campaign with the goal of gaining Instagram followers and told it that for every user that follows me will be awarded with 8 points. I know, I know, very generous but I was eager to get my first AddMeFast Instagram follower.

Within a minute or two my points dropped by 8. Then another 8. And then another. I opened up Instagram on my mobile to see what was happening and sure enough I had a notification for 3 new followers.

Great!

But hold on a minute, something didn’t look quite right. The followers didn’t have profile pictures (that’s a red flag) and their usernames were jumbled or what appeared to be random letters (another red flag). I opened each profile to check them out and found that they all had a few things in common; they all had no images uploaded, a lot of followers and were following a tonne of other people.

Without a doubt these were fake accounts. I left my campaign to continue running in the background while I did some other bits and after a couple of hours I came back to see almost 100 new followers!

By this point I had a pretty good idea about what was up.

Almost all of the Instagram followers, if not every single one of them, would be fake accounts. However, I did find the odd few which appeared to be real people (lot’s of random photos of coffee, cats and sunsets) but I would bet that around 95% of them or more were fake. So far, not so good.

Why are there so many fake Instagram accounts coming from AddMeFast? We’ll get into this a bit later on…

Testing AddMeFast With Google Plus

The next test was to try a different service and see if I had any better luck. I opted to use my Google Plus profile because I’m not too worried about having fake followers in my circles.

I set up a new campaign and chose the ‘Google Circles’ option with the Cost Per Click set at 7 points. So, to refresh, every time someone adds me to their Google Plus circle they will get 7 of my AddMeFast points. So I sat back, checked my Instagram followers (which had now grown by 104) and let it do it’s thing.

… And I waited.

After leaving it alone for about 20 minutes I came to check on it. I liked some more Instagram photos to get my points back up and found that I now had 22 new followers on Google Plus, awesome!

“But wait!” I hear you say, “I bet those ones were fake too!” And you would be absolutely right.

It’s harder to tell which Google Plus profiles are fake simply because for many people they have a G+ profile because they were told to get one when they signed up for Gmail or YouTube – so G+ pages are pretty baron anyway. But most of my new G+ followers were faceless, had no header image and no posts so I think we can safely assume they won’t be interacting with me anytime soon.

So Why Do People Create Fake Profiles?

AddMeFast allows you to easily sign in and out of your social networks so it actually makes perfect sense that people are using fake accounts.

If you wanted to get a bunch of likes or followers using AddMeFast but didn’t want to follow a bunch of random/fake accounts then you could simply create a fake account. You could then use your fake account to like and follow thousands of other users and then switch to your other account and use the points you’ve accumulated to get people to follow you.

By doing it this way it would mean that you wouldn’t have to like or follow people using your actual account. And, let’s face it, when most social networks are all about your image it’s simply not cool to have a ratio where you follow 10,000 users and 10,000 people are following you back.  It’s much more desirable to have 10,000 followers and only be following 100 people.

So is AddMeFast one of the reasons why people create fake accounts in the first place? Absolutely. People will find a way to exploit any process and I believe that it what’s going on here. Don’t you agree?

100 Or More Followers In Less Than An Hour

So you can get 100 or more fake followers in less than an hour with very little work, but is it worth it?

The short version is; yes and no.

If you want more followers or likes to increase your numbers then it works very well. Financially it costs nothing unless you pay for more points but it does cost you quite a bit of time and effort. Although likes and followers could be considered vanity numbers (they don’t really mean anything), it’s important to remember that having a perceived high number of followers has been proven to attract more genuine followers because people do follow crowds and trends. If people see you have a large number of followers or likes they will assume that you post quality, engaging content that is worth seeing. But if people choose to take a look at your followers they will soon see that your following is built on fakes.

So should you use AddMeFast? Well that depends on a few things:

1. What is most important to you – quality engagement or quantity of followers?
2. Do you want to have followers engage with your content?
3. And most importantly: Do you have enough free time to spend on AddMeFast?

Answer these questions confidently and it should become clear if AddMeFast is for you or not. And whatever you decide it doesn’t have to be final, for example you might decide that you want more followers but when you get to a certain number you will stop and focus on creating real connections with the community. Whatever you choose just make sure it is right for you at this moment.

My Thoughts On AddMeFast

Personally I see the appeal and value in AddMeFast but I don’t necessarily agree with it.

I’d like to keep social networks working how they were intended; through good honest interaction with other people and sharing parts of my own life with others.

Fake accounts are annoying and perhaps even damaging to your social profile. Who really wants to be seen with hundreds of fake followers and likes?

It is also important to note that using AddMeFast is likely a good way to get banned from certain social networks. Although I didn’t experience this in my tests, AddMeFast actually warn you on each page that Instagram does not want you liking more than 5 pictures within a minute or you risk being banned from Instagram.

Final Thoughts

As much as it might not be a great idea to abuse social media, if you use it little and often it could potentially be quite useful. The option to share your content via Twitter is interesting as even though it will most likely be shared by fake accounts with no active followers Google may index tweets so you could add some SEO weight to your content. It should also be mentioned that AddMeFast works very well for increasing views on YouTube videos, although again the quality of view will be really poor and may actually do more harm than good.

So what do you think, is it a useful tool or is it something that carries too much risk? Are you using it in ways that benefit you? Would you like me to share a tutorial for an automated process to get more AddMeFast points? Let me know in the comments.