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KiKi

Have we really gotten to a point in life where grown adults measure their popularity or brilliance by how many 'likes' a comment gets on Facebook?

I certainly don't envy anyone who lives like that.

KiKi

fierystormcloud

KiKi wrote: »

Have we really gotten to a point in life where grown adults measure their popularity or brilliance by how many 'likes' a comment gets on Facebook?

I certainly don't envy anyone who lives like that.

KiKi

I agree. I had someone on facebook once (en ex work colleague who is no longer there!) inboxing a message to me, asking if I'd seen their pic, because they noticed I hadn't liked it. :rotfl:

True story.

Also, I have seen people post a pic, and get 70 likes, but then I notice they have 1200 'friends' So basically, 1130 people out of 1200 weren't interested in your pic then!

:rotfl:

(OMG, I'm just as bad!) :(

AylesburyDuck

fierystormcloud wrote: »

I agree. I had someone on facebook once (en ex work colleague who is no longer there!) inboxing a message to me, asking if I'd seen their pic, because they noticed I hadn't liked it. :rotfl:

True story.

Also, I have seen people post a pic, and get 70 likes, but then I notice they have 1200 'friends' So basically, 1130 people out of 1200 weren't interested in your pic then!

:rotfl:

(OMG, I'm just as bad!) :(

God yes, and of those 1200 people how many do they know to talk to. FB likes have no corrolation to real life.
My kids have loads and loads of friends, but half (if i ask) are friends of a friend or a friends cousins sister and they in reality have no clue who they are at all.
I have 95, and even that includes the odd mum of a friend or a partner of a friend.
Edit.
I do tend to be harsh when adding friends, if i dont really have a clue who you are i dont care if your offended that i dont add you.

fierystormcloud

AylesburyDuck wrote: »

God yes, and of those 1200 people how many do they know to talk to. FB likes have no corrolation to real life.
My kids have loads and loads of friends, but half (if i ask) are friends of a friend or a friends cousins sister and they in reality have no clue who they are at all.
I have 95, and even that includes the odd mum of a friend or a partner of a friend.
Edit.
I do tend to be harsh when adding friends, if i dont really have a clue who you are i dont care if your offended that i dont add you.

Exactly! I think they just add multiple 100s of people they don't even know to make it look like they're super popular. :rotfl:

I have 123 FB friends, and around two thirds are people I know and have met in real life. The ones I properly know mostly consist of family, extended family, friends, and work colleagues. (The others are friends or relatives of these friends, who I sort of know a bit, and a few old farmville buddies.) When I put a picture up, I tend to get 30-40 likes on average. So mean of those others to not like my pic! :mad::mad::mad:

Occasionally I will get 50 or 60, if it's a special one, like a pic with my OH and me on our wedding anniversary in Paris. But if it's just me and the cat, I will get maybe a couple of dozen.

But yeah, people who think they are better or more popular because they get more 'likes' do come across as a bit needy and attention seeking.

Also agree that people under 21 usually have multiple 100s of friends, but as you say, often they don't know them all, maybe not even even HALF of them! And when they post a pic, and only 50 people 'like' it, when they have 900 'friends,' you know that the majority of these people are not real friends.

I sometimes see people who have people as friends on facebook, that I didn't even know they had ever met, let alone knew them! :eek:

ska_lover

Days after I make a comment, complete strangers are still discussing and dissecting it.

I find it sad that instead of spending your weekend with friends or family, folk chose to spend your weekend discussing me, ..and to several people on here I am obviously more important than the family members you are currently sitting in the same room as, ignoring

Go play with your kids, spend time with your family.

missbiggles1

ska_lover wrote: »

I had to come back here to say, I have just logged on to facebook to see a friend has put the caption ''Just for you lot getting rained on at home'' with a picture of the beach at Ibiza with said friends legs and hairy trotters included in the photo

I hate bragging, that's not excitement that is just plain bragging so I responded with the comment ''I hope you realise you have probably invalidated your home insurance by advertising you are away from home'' - so far my post has 18 likes, and his original braggy photo, has one, and that is from his mother - so clearly I'm not the only one of his FB friends that sees this in bad taste.

Bragging, about going to Ibiza?

Detroit

ska_lover wrote: »

Days after I make a comment, complete strangers are still discussing and dissecting it.

I find it sad that instead of spending your weekend with friends or family, folk chose to spend your weekend discussing me, ..and to several people on here I am obviously more important than the family members you are currently sitting in the same room as, ignoring

Go play with your kids, spend time with your family.

For the avoidance of doubt, people are not discussing you.

A few people have made one or two posts each, over the course of two days, commenting on something you posted. This probably took each person no more than 5 minutes of their weekend.

The attitude you displayed in your post was controversial, and has inspired some discussion.
However, this does not mean people are preoccupied, or even particularly interested, in you personally.

You are not being singled out or stalked, and I find it sad that your state of mind is such that you accuse strangers of this, merely because they have made comments you don't like, or think you wouldn't like if you'd seen them.

I think you need to get some perspective.

As for your sneering at people contributing here rather than spending time with family and friends; given the multiplicity of reasons why this may not be possible for some posters, I find this in poor taste, and insensitive in the extreme.

Lazarus_Blackstar

I have a friend who is very much like that! Her and her husband jet off on luxury holidays abroad a couple of times a year & she always braggs about it and chews my ear off about how many £££££'s it's cost. All on their "flexible friend" I might add!
I try to change the subject but somehow she always finds a way of getting back in to the conversation.
Nine times out of 10 a lot of it just goes over my head as I can never get a word in edgeways!!!
To be honest, I'm not all that interested but she's harmless and I just put up with her ways, I'm used to it now after many years.
I'm actually a home bird so much prefer to holiday here in the UK anyway.

Georgiegirl256

ska_lover wrote: »

Days after I make a comment, complete strangers are still discussing and dissecting it.

I find it sad that instead of spending your weekend with friends or family, folk chose to spend your weekend discussing me, ..and to several people on here I am obviously more important than the family members you are currently sitting in the same room as, ignoring

Go play with your kids, spend time with your family.

Days after? As it was not even a day, you don't have a very good concept of time do you? You also obviously don't understand the concept of irony very well either...

pollypenny

Not read whole thread, but just to say, we've had a long period of gorgeous weather here in Wales - my part, anyway.

It's not a village, you know.