Should You Buy Facebook Likes, Followers or Friends? (2026 Answer)
Should you buy Facebook likes to make your Page look popular? When we first wrote about this in 2010, services were already selling thousands of fans for a few hundred dollars, and we warned that it broke Facebook’s rules. Sixteen years later the answer is an even clearer no: bought likes don’t buy customers, they damage your reach, and Meta actively removes fake engagement. Here is why, and what to do instead.
Quick answer: No, don’t buy Facebook likes, followers or friends. It breaks Meta’s rules on inauthentic behaviour, fake accounts get removed so your numbers drop, and likes from people who don’t care lower your engagement rate, which means Facebook shows your posts to fewer real fans. Grow slowly with useful posts, Reels, groups and small, well-targeted ads instead.
Table of Contents
Why buying Facebook likes backfires
1. It breaks Meta’s rules
Meta’s Community Standards prohibit inauthentic behaviour and fake engagement. Pages linked to bought likes can be limited, lose the likes or be removed, and sellers often use the same hacked or fake accounts across many Pages.
2. Fake fans hurt your reach
Facebook shows each post to a small group first. If those “fans” are bots or uninterested accounts in other countries, nobody reacts, so Facebook decides the post isn’t interesting and shows it to fewer people. Your real fans see less of you.
3. They never buy anything
Bought likes don’t visit your site, join your list or purchase. They make it impossible to judge what content actually works.
4. People can tell
A Page with 50,000 likes and two comments per post looks suspicious. Journalists, partners and customers increasingly check engagement, not just follower counts.
5. Your money is wasted
“Real, targeted fans with a money-back guarantee” usually means click farms. Once Meta removes them, your money is gone.
Better ways to grow Facebook followers
- Post useful, native content: tips, behind-the-scenes photos and short videos people want to share.
- Use Reels: short vertical videos reach people who don’t follow you yet.
- Join or start a Facebook Group around your topic and help members.
- Invite people who engage with your posts to follow your Page.
- Promote your Page on your website, emails and other social profiles.
- Run small, targeted ads to the audience you actually want; even modest budgets reach real people.
- Collaborate with creators and Pages in your niche.
See our full guide to Facebook marketing and these tips to grow your Facebook fan base.
The same applies everywhere
We saw the same trend when people started to buy Twitter followers and even buy blog comments. Platforms have spent years building systems to detect and remove fake engagement. Real audiences grow more slowly, but they’re the only ones worth having.
FAQ
Can Facebook tell if you buy likes?
Often, yes. Meta looks for fake accounts and unusual activity patterns and removes inauthentic likes, sometimes limiting the Page too.
Is it illegal to buy Facebook likes?
It breaks Meta’s terms, and some regulators treat fake reviews and endorsements as deceptive practices. It’s not worth the risk.
What about Facebook ads for Page likes?
Ads that promote your Page to real people are allowed. That’s very different from buying fake likes from third parties.
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very good information, now some of 10 sites mentioned above discontinued their service because facebook is more strict and make buy sell fans getting harder
what i know that people get paid for facbook likes since i paid to get likes.
two month ago, i created facebook page and now i have more than 15,600 likes. sure nothing for free, I paid 1 USD for each 40 likes on average of 250 like per day through Web Identity 4 Social Promotion.
I also have a review site where you can compare the prices of some of the top ranked Google sites for purchasing Facebook likes.
Of course you can’t be sure if you are paying for such a service.
But if you are a new company that need to known in a short period of time you can buy those services.
I like this post. This is good for those who want to know about facebook. Facebook is also good for promote your business.
very good information, now some of 10 sites mentioned above discontinued their service because facebook is more strict and make buy sell fans getting harder
I have a german site where ppl can get them for free.
reading all this, i am now confused which to use…
We need large amount of worldwide fans and also Targeted fans also..
Please mail me Interested people.
Thanks
Yash
Hi guys
Are you know any free service to increase facebook likes. If yes please tell me
This is really interesting and useful stuff. We are launching a new business so will need all the likes we can get, I’m off to try some of this, wish us luck!
I also don’t see the value of sites like these. I mean, what level of interests are you going to get if you have to pay these people to like your page? Are they going to visit your site or buy things from you? Probably not.
these prices are a bit high but whats $100 dollars these days…… id purchase 500 likes why not….when it comes to facebook and Ur business page 500 or 1000 followers is really good….guaranteed to get more followers
WOW Didn’t know this was around unbelievable wat ppl do to be Liked….
I was skeptical until reading all the posts. What if you have a website that can hit all demographics and could possible become a customer?? Would you think its a good idea then ??
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Hi! I bought a package from facebook champions and paid only $25 for 1000 fans and I got them in one day. Pretty good in my opinion!
I need likes for a contest just need about 200 any good sources? need by 5th of may
Hi, looking for FB fans, any reasonable offer? I like offer of Huss but you never provided a contact.
The only service that I have found that 1. Delivers 2. You can contact 3. Is run by a big company and can be verified 4. Has a great reptutation….is Blumpo.com All these other fans services running dodgy websites and spammy domains should be stayed clear of. I have ordered numerous times them and I am a raving fan…pardon the pun.
We have tried most of these sites but the best results we have recieved was from http://www.premiumfans.net . They took about 3 weeks, but the fans were very good quality and they have a money back guarantee. Most these other sites are charging very little because they are providing fake profiles which is worthless.
I agree. cs was really helpful. At first i was concerned that the fans don’t seemed to be coming but he said its becos they send real fans and not the scammy bots which might get u banned so it takes more time. he said they have to send and send kinda whatisit? organically and get the fans to gradaully stick. Well finally they did and i’m happy i stuck with them :)
Hello ca anybody here help me out in getting 1million facebook likes.. which one is reliable please let me know
I guess for that amount of likes, any of these services will give you a good rate if you directly contact them. But unless you are Techcrunch or mashable or the new york times, people will not believe the millions of likes.
I think that likes are only meant for increasing like count because they are not real, Acc. to me :/
pathetic to see that all these sites can’t even get an impressive number of fans to their FB fanpage…
But is it really good to BUY FANS?? I think people should come and become fans of any page because of its contents. I strongly feel buying fans is like faking popularity. This won’t help anyone for long time…
Wow…really useful..I will suggest this article with my frnds..Thank uu
Have added the site as my website because there awesome for buying likes if anyone is intrested have used this site 5 times and they have over delivered.
You can request a call back also and the customer services are great would reccomend them to anyone.
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hmmm.. just tried bought 1000 likes to win a competiotion from myfbfans.com one of 10 recommended sites above and I really get 1000 more likes as requested. Very excellent service from myfbfans.com
I used fbfacefan.com after I tried the other guys. fbfacefan.com has a 1-800 number and online chat. I spoke with the owner and she answered all my questions. I bought 10k fans and I received 10,500 fans. I’m planning on using them again on my other pages.
I recommend the services of Webtraffic2010 to everyone!
This is a good list of sites dealing in selling Facebook fans..i believe that buying facebook fans is a very small investment and can yield quick and fast results and one should give it a try..
Buying facebook fans and likes is the fastest way to build your fan page.
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I had a bad experience with increasefbfans.com. Once I paid I never heard from them. Not even scalating the calim in Payment has made them get back to me.
Is there a real person that has used a reliable site for incresing facebook fans?
Aparently they have a nice websites that promise to send a number of visitors to your facebook fan page but once you pay you never hear from them. Notice that there is no email address posted on the website and the only informaion that you find on the web is that the site has been sold. If that is the case and no one is available to respond why they are getting payments to a gmail email address
I tried 3 of 10 sites which listed above, but only myfbfans.com that really give great result and I’m very satisfied
I recently purchased a service package, and was not prompted to enter my facebook link which I wanted to promote. Any resolve to this problem? I’ve been trying to look for help, but the toll free number does not work, nor have they responded to my messages. What should I do?
Most of people buying just Random and same list of fans from fans service sites. don’t waste money on just random fans, some of them actually love your page topic but most of them not.no body will buy anything from your site.i have used service called getrealfbfans.com they only add targeted fans and its a guaranteed service.totally satisfied with what they given with my first basic order.then after few days i decide to buy new package for my new fan page.they send me list of new fans.not the same fans.interesting thing was most of people are posting on wall because they real love my page topic.
try it . if u not satisfy with the service they will refund your money!
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Andy,
I’d have to respectfully disagree. I run a fan buying site and the way in which we add fans is from from spamming and is very natural. With spamming, many of these accounts could end up banned from Facebook which benefits no one.
Did you know that you just put more emphasis on the spamming nature of these practice by repeating the word “from” twice? LOL
“the way in which we add fans is from from spamming”
I would be curious to know how they go about ‘inviting’ these fans as I suspect they are spamming other pages on Facebook and this is not a respectable way to be promoting your company – unless you have a shady operation to begin with anyway and don’t care what people think.
I think most people in this planet uses facebook. It is a great means to promote and get your website more traffic.
I have used a few of the sites mentioned above. The thing that you need to make sure of is that you are buying actual fans and not invites.
That’s why so many of these sites are so cheap, you aren’t getting guaranteed fans. And not only that but also a lot of these websites don’t offer targeted fans.
I wasted my money on a lot of different fan page services until I came across two that were actually worth the money. They not only guaranteed the fans but also provided a money back guarantee. Prices were very reasonable as well.
Paid traffic and visitors are not good for any sites.. Because they are fake most of the time..
It is better to create a good profile on facebook and promote our sites and works
Swamykant
i agree with you. paid fans are not interested in your contents and thus you are no where. They will leave you as it as. They are never ever loyal to your website. so try to generate proper fans using some solid contents
I agree with Harsh, This way of promoting facebook page will only result in creating holes in your pcoket. Not worth the price at all!
is a good thing but is not good.. :p
How?
1st: The prices are very high..
2nd: the fans maybe not related to your page/topic.
so, according to me, this is wasting of money..
Agree with you. Maybe it works for short period. But, for long term, natural like is still the best.^^
Are you are scammer if you are using this service?!
I highly discourage using such services..because if you will see such site notes: They have mentioned they will invite 2000 or 1000 fans and it’s again up to those friends if they join your page or not…
More over usually such people take help of fake girl Facebook profile and invite people…
That’s true harsh, but i can provide Quality fans, Serving 50+ companies to get huge fan page likes for very less charge than these companies provide :)
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hey man,
i am planning to use this service but im quite skeptical on how you get people to join the page. Could you enlighten me a lil?
hoe much is rate please tell me i want targeted audience from usa , uk, europe , middle est india etc
I will like to get some fans from you
Hi jasmine ,I purchased their service a month ago ,real and active package ,
since i m not banned ,i can see that likes are from real people but some how i dont get much conversation
i bought 2000 real like package and its conversing little like just 5-9 likes per post an 15 around for picture and few comments sometimes
Is this enough?
You have to read the fine print of the Facebook fan buying services you use. Some sites sell invites, some sites don’t deliver anything, but some sites are good at promoting your page. I had pretty good results with for example. It’s worth googling a company and finding out their reputation before buying anything.
@Huss
Let me know how to contact you – I’m interested in your trial service, then much more if it works…
i need friends and fans for my bar in Antigua Guatemala or in Guatemala city
what can you do for me ??
Hey Huss, Is the trial offer still valid? Cheers, Joe
Wow this blog is not well reserched, the price for their likes is way to high, I think the best place to buy facebook fans is seoservicestool.com cause they have 1000 likes for $19.00 instead of 59.99 thats the cheapest iv seen yet. And havent failed me yet on delivery.