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Won't You Please 'Like' me? I'm feeling A Little Neglected!

Won't You Please 'Like' me? I'm feeling A Little Neglected!

Lately I have begun to ponder the merits of Facebook, LinkedIn, Pintrest, About me, Twitter and all the other sites out there who carry that little button whereby I invite people I don’t know, and will probably never meet, to, “like me.”


Won't You Please 'Like' me? I'm feeling A Little Neglected!


Once having tasted being ‘liked’ I began to check check my homepage regularly ...... well let's be honest here, every ten minutes or so. It’s a little like having tasted crack cocaine, liked it and continually going back for more.

I find concept of 'liking' a little bizarre when I see  advertisements in print and on TV carry the silly statement, "like us on Facebook" as if this is the road to finding the Holy Grail or  gathering a dedicated following who will slavishly buy their products.


Won't You Please 'Like' me? I'm feeling A Little Neglected!


I have read articles and discovered that people  slip into depression when they log onto their individual sites to find that no one has ‘liked’ their comment or the banal picture of their pet sleeping in a bucket.

For some, this is tantamount to total rejection by an on -line society where it seems that not even invisible friends  they don’t know, like them very much, or if at all.

However, having said that, the ‘likes’ one receives seems to bolster self esteem as if that crowd in cyberspace have adopted you for posting about that wonderful breakfast you had this morning (complete with photograph) This is stuff that, if Facebook were not around one would never read or indeed even care about.

The demise and terrible fate of the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet last year seemed to fuel the Facebook frenzy of ill constructed posts. It seemed bizarre to see people posting sympathy notes to the two hundred and thirty nine people who perished in this disaster receiving hundreds of ‘likes.”

Its a bit like, "Oh, Mum died this morning; I’ll just pop that little snippet onto  Facebook". A little while later the bereaved relative happily exclaims that her post on Mama’s death has received an incredible sixty-seven likes!

Won't You Please 'Like' me? I'm feeling A Little Neglected!

The explosive power of ‘liking’ has naturally spread to other sites that have sprung up in the past few years.

Linkedin, the site that doesn’t ask you to befriend people you don’t know but rather asks you to ‘connect’ with people you don’t know.

After you have built up your ‘stable’ of contacts one is suddenly asked to ‘congratulate’ John Smith from Boise, Idaho who was recently promoted to chief sewer inspector.

This site, which has a ‘business slant,’ has stumbled upon the like button.

Post an insightful article or quotation stolen or shamelessly plagiarized from what the writer hopes is some obscure journal now has a like button.  We can then applaud the thief for his diligence in informing me about an endangered tree frog in Tierra del Fuego 

"About me."  (What could be a more narcissistic name for a site than this little beauty) has dispensed with the like button and instead has one called, “ compliment me.”

The term ‘fishing for compliments’ has never been more poignant.



Won't You Please 'Like' me? I'm feeling A Little Neglected!



Pin trest is something quite frankly I don’t understand and will not bore any potential readers with my ignorance. However I suspect they have a button that says ‘prick me ‘ meaning your photo of your child’s Christmas concert has struck a chord with someone in Greenland.

Now we come to Twitter and the wonderfully named tweets: forty-five or so words to excite the myriad of ‘followers’ you may have. 

I shamelessly have a Twitter account and see regular tweets to say that so and so is now following me on Twitter.

My first reaction is to think, why?

Twitter seems to be a tool whereby football players or B listed Hollywood types get themselves into trouble by tweeting banal messages that, on the whole are offensive.


Won't You Please 'Like' me? I'm feeling A Little Neglected!



They have a bit of a rant and within an instant they are headline news for all the wrong reasons with their PR and publicist’s scrambling to try and avoid media fallout. Tweeting sometimes is akin to drinking and dialing, in other words, best avoided. ( Donald Trump should have heeded this warning! ) 

And so, after this rather nebulous rant I will sign off and post this article to my website. The clever program that runs the site will then re- post this to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblir, Stumble Upon and a myriad of other outlets.

So if you do have a minute, please press the 'like' button as you see,  lately I've been feeling a little neglected!

Since this article was published late last year, Facebook has added 'emojis' to signify ones 'feelings.' Not saying that this article had anything to do with it but....just saying !!!


Paul v Walters is an author living in Bali and has penned 5 novels as well as writing for several international travel and vox pop journals.

His latest novel Scimitar was released in September 2016 .

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Lisa Gallagher

7 tahun yang lalu #14

#21
haha I will take that as a nice compliment Paul Walters!

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #13

#20
Lisa Gallagher if you weren't already married I would marry you !!! Thank you

Lisa Gallagher

7 tahun yang lalu #12

Well as usual, I will like your article. I've read it and guess what... last night I found and followed you on Twitter haha. Since I have an article of yours tweeting for the next 8 days or so, I wanted to follow you so I could tag you. How do you like those apples? ;-) Keep writing my friend, I will keep reading and reposting because I love your stories and style!

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #11

#18
thank you javier

Javier Cámara-Rica 🐝🇪🇸

7 tahun yang lalu #10

#16
Paul Walters , we will have stings. You can read more here https://www.bebee.com/producer/@javierbebee/bebee-s-goal-is-to-grow-in-the-us

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #9

#5
Why thank you Paul, much appreciated

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #8

#13
Thanks Catalina, on this site we should have 'stings'

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #7

#11
I shall !!!!

Louise Smith

7 tahun yang lalu #6

#1
Yes Julie Julie Hickman my sentiments exactly ! Very funny dry humour !

Mohammed Abdul Jawad

7 tahun yang lalu #5

Are we getting captivated with more ‘likes’ and living with idle fancies and getting dragged in annoying lifestyles? Oftentimes, the drift of social media and users’ attitudes are so typical that it seems users are living to their hallucinations and whimsical narrations in a virtual world. Verily, social media is the fulcrum in building relationships in today’s world! Though, it's easy to use 'social media' for diverse purposes, but, when it is used in a wrong manner, then the outcome may be sheer 'social mayhem', and with the clutter effect of unplanned activities and postings, it's just waste of time. Getting hooked up on the social media has to be appropriate, inspiring, meaningful and productive. Without these ingredients, making sheer exposures through vain content and impressive pictures is waste of time and energy. :)

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #4

#6
Oh By the way Phill , Having spent time in East Sussex I am a little familiar with the practice of 'planting' fake fossils

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #3

Wow thanks Phil! I think !

Phil Friedman

7 tahun yang lalu #2

Paul Walters, you are a hard man, indeed, no doubt emotionally stunted by uncontrolled intellectual development. A definite handicap in this age of social media. However, your words pass beyond the pale, when you denigrate the "banal picture[s] of their pet sleeping in a bucket." For such denigration is just plain mean, not to mention that when it comes to indications of evolutionary level on social media, the photos to which you refer stand as the Enlightenment does to the works of Piltdown Man. (Waiting to see how many recognize the irony of this last remark.) Nevertheless, a good piece, with both an undercurrent of insight and one of humor. Cheers!

Paul Walters

7 tahun yang lalu #1

#1
Why thank you Julie Hickman much appreciated !

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