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1. i agree 100% with your update (whatever it is & usually it’s something highly irrelevant to the 99% of world’s population) AND i wish i thought of it myself, but then i am a non-native speaker and still couldn’t word it so neatly, so i feel tad envious too;
2. i disagree completely, more so – i almost hate you right now, but can’t remove you from friends because there is no reasonable explanation to my neurotic reaction for our mutual fb friends, thus i’ll pretend i haven’t read your status AT ALL;
3. i didn’t reply to your cry for help not because i am insensitive, but because i am in another time zone and now, 22h later, i feel embarrassed to say anything at all;
4. i hate prolonged status updates posted late in the night, i mean, c’mmon, who has the focus for that in this ADD era?!
5. you are plain WRONG, but i am too tired to argue, so here is a passive-aggressive Like with a smirk ;
6. you post in a language i don’t speak, but you look kinda hot on your profile picture, so i Like your update & keep my fingers crossed that it isn’t about your companion being ill or something;
7. iLike your status, i really do, but it’s quite personal and i am neither sure who you are nor why i added you to friends, so i’ll pass;
8. i have no idea what you are talking about & i am too busy to read it all, but given that 78 mutual friends liked your status & commented on it Like it is!
9. despite being called ‘most anti-social invention’ by some, a Facebook “like” is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment; “Liking” something on the social media site is a “substantive statement” being made by a user – and i don’t take those lightly, because the mere sound of the phrase is legal-power-igniting & it doesn’t matter the least that i am not sure at all what substantive statements are!
10. iLike what you are saying, it comes across as intelligent and eloquent, but i am uninformed on the topic& can’t be bothered to read extensively about it, so to comment appropriately, thus i’ll pretend that i missed this one, albeit i didn’t;
11. i think i Like your status, but i am not sure & it’s my bedtime (i am in another time zone)
12. i like your status, but then i think your significant other won’t like yet another Like of mine on your Facebook wall;
13. you haven’t Liked any of my statuses recently & being a firm believer in Facebook reciprocity, i pass;
14. yours is a marketing douchebaggery, so no Like from me, despite the big puppy eyes you are making;
15. if i Like this, you’ll expect me to Like other stuff of yours; if i do – then you’ll invite me to Like your Facebook page, if i do that – all your Facebook friends will start nagging me to Like their respective Facebook pages and i don’t really like many of their pages, but would feel thorn apart if i liked some and wouldn’t like others and i don’t wish that kind of anguish for myself, so i pass!
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Lol! So very true – these had me nodding my head and giggling in agreement. Now, where’s that ‘like’ button?! Ali x
Thank you, Alison! Our cross-posting on Al and the following convo made me write this, i am happy you liked it! xxxxxxx
16. So in order to facilitate your narcissistic delusions without any cost to me because I don’t know you and will never ever meet you, remember that I sincerely love your status and really look forward to more virtual reports of your life! Fakebook is so good for your complexion!
Hahahah, Dr Schaps, i DO KNOW who you are & i loved following you on facebook 😉 Nah, you know me – i am really involved with my fb friends, it’s that Alison (who commented above – a wise woman and an amazing writer from UK) and i laughed earlier that there should be ‘acknowledged & disliked’ button… and that’s where it started rolling! 😉
Sometimes you are tempted to like a friend’s friend post because the common friend is likeable; at other times you are tempted to like a post because of the number of likes you saw on it; and finally, most of the time you like a post to show as if you have read everything in it even if it was not interesting at all. Don’t you think some would even like a post as a means of saying “I’m done with you”?
Maxim, absolutely! But then i am really talkative – so i do all of those things – “like a friend’s friend post because the common friend is likeable; at other times you are tempted to like a post because of the number of likes you saw on it; and finally, most of the time you like a post to show as if you have read everything in it even if it was not interesting at all.” I do believe all of those deserve a button of their own – and one more i though of “pity Like”, reserved for those statuses that no one else likes! 😀
Haha.. “pity like”.. I like that 🙂
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Haha… I wonder what those buttons’ icons would be like…
OMG hahaha this is all so true! You put into words what I am always thinking.
LOL. I totally agree with you on all of these! Especially that pity like. I would use that one a lot.