Bringing hypocrisy to a whole new level: Facebook.
Frankly speaking, I am very disturbed by all the 'Like this status and I'd post on your wall something I like about you' status updates on Facebook. It's a very lame way to pass time, seriously. If I like your status update, I'm basically saying 'Hey I don't know what you like about me, please tell me so I can feel better about myself', and many people fall for that. If you really want to know reasons for being liked by people, this journey of discovery cannot be held on a frivolous medeium such as Facebook, dammit. What happened to heart-to-heart conversations face-to-face, which eventually devolved to phone conversations, and further devolving to pixellated words on the screen otherwise known as MSN/other instant messaging programs? And now we're talking about Facebook. Wao. I am utterly flabbergasted by the amount of idiots saying patronizing stuff about each other.
'Hey I like you because you are my junior/senior/classmate/schoolmate/CCA-mate/whatever-shit-relationship-you-can-think-up-of'
The people who make such bullshit reasons are also normally the people who like fan pages such as 'There is always one asshole in class/CCA/school everyone hates'. I'm not sure if you get it, but if you link the fan pages they like with the aforementioned reason(s)...you get my point.
What they say don't count, and what counts can't be said. In the past 2 weeks, I've seen only one valid comment. The kind that could possibly invoke tears (coz they are touched) in the recipient of the wall post, because it's personal, and not just patronizing as is the nature of most such 'like reasons'.
I don't know who started this idea, but I think it's bullshit and should be taken offline. Perhaps he was thinking 'Hmm knowing why they are liked helps people feel better about the value and impact they have in the life of others', and I can see the gem in such a perspective, but more often than not it becomes a meaningless wall post, done just to appease the 'liker'.
I tried to start a revolutionary last Wednesday:
'I'm kinda tired of these diplomatic 'i like you' stuff. The reasons aren't even valid. How about this: Like this status and I'd write on your wall something TRUTHFUL--something I don't like about you.
Like this statement if you've the balls for negative comments about your very own character.
Let's start this mud-slinging activity ♥'
but it failed. Apparently, most people just want to hear the good things others have to say about them. No one emulated me, or at least not any that I know of. It's kinda depressing how low humanity has sunk, when only 24 out of around 300 friends of mine chose to like it. I'm pretty sure it made it to the 'Top News' section, so it's hard for people to miss.
Oh well. To be honest I didn't really expect much, but I didn't expect the turnout to be so discouraging either.
Are people that afraid of criticisms? I'd rather have sincere suans than pretentious niceties, and I've never liked a status that promises me reasons for me to be liked by the status-updater.
A wall quibbed with niceties is a wall screwed.
A guy posting about Facebook trends is a guy un-laid.
-- 6/20/2010 02:26:00 AM
