I Don’t Like This & 10Million Other Pages
Maybe I’m coming across as a bit of a killjoy in this post, but I’m getting sick of signing into my Facebook account only to have my activity stream flooded by people ‘liking’ all these outrageous and pointless Facebook Pages.
Now correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Pages were for topics that Facbeook users actually liked, e.g. their favourite bands, footy teams, brands etc. These days the Facebook Pages app seems to be swarming with pages that have been set up purely so people can make some sort of statement and sound cool. Let’s take an example:
Wow! That looks useful, I bet the page’s wall is filled with useful information by its fans; discussing their passion for this subject and sharing how it effects their lives on a day-to-day basis. Let’s have a look and see why this page’s 2.3 million fans are so interested in not needing anger management:
I stand corrected! Silly me for not seeing the point of pages like this 
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I’ll admit there is the occasional page’s title that makes me laugh; those that are genuinely witty, but is there really any need to sign up to a page to tell your friends that you “know someone who is a prick”? Why not just update your status to “I know someone who is a prick”, or something reasonable like that.
A New Wave of Satanic Evil
And just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, here comes websites like mylikebook.com and likeworthy.com who are dedicated to relentless ‘liking’. It doesn’t look like there’s much hope for genuine Facebook Pages as most of people’s attention goes towards endlessly consuming and regurgitating these ‘cool statement pages’.
Don’t get me wrong, I can see why the two websites I mentioned above have been set up. They mightaswell milk peoples obsession with ‘liking’ and make some money out of it through advertising! I doubt they actually like all of the statements that are on their websites themselves.
Anyway, end of rant! Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section, am I alone in my hatred of Facebook ranting or are there others that are with me?
Yes, these types of pages are bugging me too. It’s just an underhanded way to get large numbers of likes; and the pages that send you to a different site altogether once you’ve liked it to view the content matter just cannot be trusted at all.
You are obviously getting old!
Don’t you know that being cool is all about appearing cool – not actually putting in any effort to be cool?
Hence, if its only the title other people are going to see – then that is all you should need to like!
My daughter is into these like sites and there is also an element in here that if you like something rather than actually typing in the statement, you can sort of say something, without the commitment of actually saying it!
depressing but true!