Parenting (...or My Precious Snowflake is Better Than Yours)

[Dr. Medulla]

[Dr. Medulla]

[matedog]

Good for the commentor. I hate those damn posts.

[JennyB]

Good for the commentor. I hate those damn posts.

Me too -- they are even worse when it has to do with an illness. As if there are doctors out there going, "I'm not going to give this kid his heart transplant unless a million people like this Facebook post!"

[Dr. Medulla]

Good for the commentor. I hate those damn posts.

Me too -- they are even worse when it has to do with an illness. As if there are doctors out there going, "I'm not going to give this kid his heart transplant unless a million people like this Facebook post!"

It's a new economy and Facebook Likes is the currency. Alrighty, let's take a look at your status and … oh, not good, not good at all. Seems you're not popular enough for medical care.

[Flex]

I try not to be too judgmental about this kind of stuff, but the "million likes" strategy just can't be healthy for a kid. And, obviously, it's abhorrent if it ties into something directly life threatening or what have you.

[Dr. Medulla]

I try not to be too judgmental about this kind of stuff, but the "million likes" strategy just can't be healthy for a kid. And, obviously, it's abhorrent if it ties into something directly life threatening or what have you.

You sound like someone who is liked by fewer than a million people.

[Flex]

I try not to be too judgmental about this kind of stuff, but the "million likes" strategy just can't be healthy for a kid. And, obviously, it's abhorrent if it ties into something directly life threatening or what have you.

You sound like someone who is liked by fewer than a million people.

It's my cross to bear.

[Rat Patrol]

Reason #186 why I refuse to sign up for Facebook: Likes mutating into its own form of currency, like it's a fucking Kickstarter or something. It's the attention tax. You're an ungrateful nobody if you don't pay up. I got chastised by my own sister yesterday for not having an account so she could share her inane YouTube videos and daily pictures of her dogs doing dog stuff. I'm like, "Well, I wouldn't read it anyway much less comment, so what's the difference." My brother does have Facebook, and he gets shit for never liking or commenting on the awkward family photos.


I can *sort of* see the functional necessity of this for Twitter where follows are a lot wider open and retweets are a slightly more intrinsic form of currency. Especially when it's used as a news tool. There aren't many people, however, who use it strategically. It is mostly the same attention whoring.


LinkedIn is getting to be the same way. I hold my nose and use that because I have to as a freelance editor...my whole industry is on it, and half my projects have initiated via contacts. I'll happily Like news of a colleague's promotion as a "Good jorb!" pat on the back. But even that's going the way of attention whoring with the vapid Skills endorsement where people are pressured to rubber-stamp each of the 63 job skills in somebody's profile as karma points. And the race to Follow as many unrelated companies as possible and Like as many "Influencer" (worst...buzzword...ever) posts ends up being a beauty pagent that dumps a torrent of spam at everyone in their network. It's not enough anymore to manicure my connections list to stay on-topic (as a necessity for bumping me in the search results with people who are actually going to feed me work). But I can feel my own exposure disintegrating more by the day as these people dilute the network to spit with this same Facebook behavior. What used to be a pretty decent specialized promotional tool for actually getting me real projects...is getting less so by the day. I don't pay nearly as much attention to it as I used to.

[tepista]

Sorry son, only 800,000 people like you. You can't go to Disneyland.

[Marky Dread]

Sorry son, only 800,000 people like you. You can't go to Disneyland.

Life can be such a bummer.

[Rat Patrol]

15th trimester abortions legalized in the U.S.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/1 ... 98970.html

[tepista]

15th trimester abortions legalized in the U.S.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/1 ... 98970.html

They're totally gonna increase their male viewership 15 years ago.

[Dr. Medulla]

Maybe they'll all develop autism and just sit there staring at each other.

[Rat Patrol]

15th trimester abortions legalized in the U.S.:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/1 ... 98970.html

They're totally gonna increase their male viewership 15 years ago.

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