Is Facebook Good For Magazines?
I’ve always been a magazine freak. Loved either buying them or receiving in the mail through subscriptions.
At one time I subscribed to Fairlady, Oprah Magazine, Ideas and Shape Magazine. All at the same time.
And I bought the You Magazine weekly.
Now I don’t subscribe to any at all. Since I don’t have time to do crossword puzzles, there is no reason for me to buy the magazines anymore.
I subscribe to their Facebook pages, check out their websites and that’s that. They usually have most of the best parts of the magazine online anyway.
Why waste money on a subscription when you may or may not receive your magazine, depending on whether there is a free gift or not.
I buy Fairlady most months – for the fashion and make-up and if the You magazine has any local celebrities on the cover who I might want to blog about, I will buy that.
Last month’s Fairlady just bored the heck out of me. And the last You did the same thing.
Every week You has a poll on their Facebook page asking readers to guess who is on the cover. Every week requests are made for local celebs and every Friday we’re presented with an international star.
It aggravates the heck out of me! So I just haven’t been buying the You. If I wanted to read something about Penelope Cruz or Angelina Jolie, I could do so for free on the internet.
I made my decision to not buy this week’s You based on this cover:
What more do we need to know about Angelina Jolie that we don’t already know? Actually no international celebrity interests me enough to buy a magazine with their faces on it. Maybe Jennifer Aniston. But that’s it!
I’m actually surprised that You magazine continually ask their Facebook fans to guess the cover, because it causes quite a stir every week.
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4 Responses to “Is Facebook Good For Magazines?”
By Claudine on Aug 6, 2010 | Reply
I never buy You, never really liked the mag. Like you I had a subscription to the Fairlady but let it lapse. Now that I am in Afrikaner hell (;)) I hardly ever see it on the racks. I don’t need the mag though, I only really bought it for the recipes and those are online anyway. So yes, FB is good for the mags. It keeps the enlightened internet users coming back.
By Abigail Abrahams on Aug 8, 2010 | Reply
Afrikaaner hell
i mostly buy mags with crosswords or gym workouts, but dont have time anymore.
But FB has made me decide not to buy an issue. Womens Health had a Sex issue last month and i’m bored with reading stupid sex tips.
You had Angelina Jolie and Fairlady had Fergie. All of which they previewed on FB.
Maybe others feel brand loyalty?
By Claudine on Aug 9, 2010 | Reply
Oh those sex advice columns are so overdone. You’d swear women in general have lost the ability to think for themselves when it comes to their love life or anything else really. Someone said to me a while back that the best things we’ve lost in recent years is the ability to communicate well and to use our own common sense. I think that is true especially now that people text each other while in the same room or have to run and google (insert crisis) to figure out what to do.
(You would not believe the mags on racks here! Not even the library has enough modern English books!)
By Abigail Abrahams on Aug 10, 2010 | Reply
I know what you mean about those sex columns. They’re totally useless because we’re all different and relationships are all different. I find it totally absurd how we’re all expected to think, act, dress, speak, etc. the same. Just deviate from the ‘norm’… arghhh!! (ooohhh thanks – I think I’ve got a new blog post soon.
I’m a googler LOL. Nothing is left unresearched.
What mags??? I shudder to think what people in Blue Bulls country read!