Esteban Panzera

Why you should submit your own content:

1. Correct Title and Description: if you submit your own content to social networks, you can be sure you will be sure you are submitting it with a catchy title and description. If someone else submits it, he/she could change the title and description and make your content fail.
2. Friends: you probably have some friends on that social network (you should), they would help you by voting on what you submitted. If someone with a new account submits your content, he/she would have no friends and would make your content fail.
3. Success: if your content has success on that social network, you would be one step closer to being a top user. If someone submits your content, that person would be one step closer to being a top user.
4. Responsability: if what you submitted to the social network doesn’t succeed, you would be completely responsible for it and you wouldn’t be able to say it was because of another person. If someone else submits your content and it doesn’t succeed, you could blame that person for that and you wouldn’t ever know what would have happened if it was you who submitted that content.
5. Analysis: if you submit your content and it doesn’t succeed, you could analyse why it didn’t have success and if you find out it was because of your profile, you could change it. If someone else submits your content and it doesn’t have success on social networks, you wouldn’t be able to know why it was.

Why you Shouldn’t submit your own content:

1. Users hate it: most users on social networks hate when you submit your own content to it, as they feel you are just there to promote your website. They want the social network to be a place to exchange great content, not to promote websites.
2. Spammy: you might submit one article from your site, but after you submit a couple of article, it would really look spammy that you are always submitting content from the same site, that would have a negative impact on your name and on your website’s reputation.
3. Not permitted: some social networks (some do permit it), don’t want users to submit their own content to social networks, so by submitting your own content you wouldn’t be following the Terms of Service of that social network.
4. Top User: a top user of that social network might visit your blog, find your content interesting and submit it to social networks, that would bring you great possibilities of succeeding.
5. Better Title: if someone else submits your content, he might come up with a better title you didn’t think of, which could be the reason your content succeeds in social networks.

Everything in life has got its pros and cons, submitting your own content to social networks isn’t an exception to this. So it is your choice.