The Likers Club
Facebook has changed the way we
communicate and interact with friends. It has opened up vast opportunities to
connect with old friends and also make new friends online. In this fashion,
Facebook has enlarged our world to a great extent.
It is not something surprising
today, for us to be more familiar with people whom we periodically interact on
facebook, rather than our close set of friends and relatives, who are not on
facebook. It is because a lot of sharing is happening in this virtual world, as
compared to the real world. Those who are not in the list of our facebook
contacts don’t get to know as much as our friends who are in facebook.
How often have you posted a message
or photo, in your facebook page and eagerly waited to see how many ‘likes’ you
get? How happy were you when you see
that you have got a number of ‘likes’, for your post? It is a common happening
in everyone’s life. The more contacts in your facebook list, the more chances
for you of getting more likes. So, people keep expanding the list of contacts
by adding friends, friends of friends and so on.
The good part of facebook, is that
the majority of facebook users, could be categorized as, “The Likers Club”. Likers
are those who are not very active in posting, but whenever they see a post on
their wall they make sure to click the “Like” button. Pressing the ‘Like’
button does not necessarily mean that they like the post. It could just be a
way of acknowledging that they have seen the post. So when this happens, the
person who made the post feels happy. The Likers are the cheer bringers to the
facebook world.
I was wondering how this concept of
LIKE, motivates people to share more about themselves with others. This led me
to a realization that people crave for recognition and they do not seem to be
getting enough of it from the real world. Facebook is in a way, passively
satisfying this need and this has to a great extent influenced the number of
people getting into this social world.
Now imagine extending this likers club from the virtual world to a real world. Would the world not be a much happier place to live in? While we are happily sharing our ‘likes’ on the virtual world, what is stopping us from expressing our ‘likes’ in the real world?
How often have we told our mother or
spouse that we liked the delicious food that they have made for us? How often
have we told our children, that we like their polite behaviour, in a social
gathering? How often have we told someone; I like your smile; I like your
dress; I like your style; I like the way you walk; I like the way you express
your thoughts, or something of that sort.
It is not that we don’t like, but we
rarely express our like. Thanks to
Facebook, that it has brought in the culture of expressing our LIKE. Let us not
limit this LIKE culture, only to our facebook circle but extend it to our near
and dear ones. It would not only make them glad, but also motivate them to do
things better.
D. Senthil Kannan,
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