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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
I don't really understand all the FB photo contests
that is my complaint of the day.
Your kid is cute and all, why do I have to vote on it?
(and no, this is not directed at anyone - its just a general observation/annoyance).
Re: I don't really understand all the FB photo contests
You don't have to do anything. But it takes a split second and in most cases, there's a chance for the person to win a prize.
I asked for help from everyone I knew when I wanted to win tickets to see Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert at the Hippodrome, and thanks to the number of people who were more than willing to take 30 seconds and enter in my name, I won something that was important to and exciting for me.
If you don't want to click, then you don't have to, but why be grumpy about it?
I agree with FIA--you don't have to click if you don't want to. If they are my friend though and they can win something, why not click and vote?
One exception though is when they bug and bug about it. My cousin and his wife recently had their kid in a contest to win a photography session--one e-mail to ask me to vote would have been fine, but multiple emails--that turned me off and I didn't vote.
In my case, the sponsor added in a facebook voting phase after I entered the contest, it wasn't included in the original contest rules. I wasn't happy about it, but I sent out voting requests because it's a significant prize that we reeeeeally need. So I asked the favor of those who were willing, but no one had to vote.
Side Note- Thanks again to the Nesties who voted! They still haven't announced finalists or winners, but I think that our entry was in the top 10 in terms of # of votes. I'm just hoping that the # of votes draws the judges' attention to our entry.
My only issue w/ these contests is not with the people asking you to vote for them, but it's w/ FB and the companies holding the contest. I don't like giving my personal information out to companies that I will have no further interest in, or being prompted to "share" my vote w/ friends, etc.
If it was always just as simple as clicking "vote" I would always do it, but that is not always the case.
This is pretty much how I feel. i'll vote for your child/your wedding/your house whatever but I dont want to have to give any personal information to do so.
I do get what you're saying though Kathryn and I think it's because for some reason in the past 6 months these types of contests have become rampant. I feel like any given day I have 5 people asking me to vote for something on my FB, where it used to be one or two a week.
they don't really bother me. If its a close friend, or relative, or nestie who needs the votes, I will vote for them in a heartbeat, but if it's just an acquaintance I just keep scrolling through my news feed. No big deal.
I will say when I had Sean in Jenni's contest to win a free session I really appreciated the people who took 30 seconds to stop and vote for me. And also, for the business who is sponsoring the contest, it is a way to get exposure.
I agree with the pp about not liking to give out personal information to vote though. I prefer the kind where all you have to do is click 'like'.
I'm still mad about him not winning--he was definitely the cutest kid. Dummies.
me too...it's too many now!!!
I don't mind voting for people, but I don't like having to go through too many steps or give out too much info to do it either.
For ours, we were supposed to have people sign into FB, go to the sponsor's page, "like" it, go to the voting page, and click on whichever entry. I wasn't about to ask people to do all of that, because I know that I wouldn't want to have to do that for someone else. But I figured out that by clicking a certain link on the voting page, it opened a new non-FB window with its own website that listed all of the entries, so I just sent that link out... I worked the system
Lol.
I also get annoyed when someone bombards me with voting requests. There was a girl who I went to college with who sent me multiple, personalized FB messages asking me to vote- I hadn't seen or spoken to the girl since I graduated in 2003. That was annoying.