HOW FACEBOOK STARTED IT AND
NAIRALAND CONTINUED IT.

What do you like? Maybe you like Mizmycoli's epistles, Mariolae's wonderful diary and barcanista's APC bashing posts. Or, perhaps, you like fufu with afang soup, Chidinma and afro pop music... if not all six of these things. Whatever you like, you have probably used that hugely popular social networking websites, Facebook and nairaland, to publicly indicate your fondness for these things. As will become clearer in this article, it can be easy to underestimate the degree of influence of Facebook's 'like' function since it was introduced in 2009.It is difficult to miss the 'like' button during even the most cursory use of Facebook or nairaland. All posts made by your friends can be 'liked' - all that you need to do is click on that little icon that looks like a hand indicating "thumbs up". You can even 'like' pages dedicated to various organizations and public figures, not to mention posts produced by these pages. There's certainly an awful lot of 'liking' happening on Facebook and nairaland, then. However, for many people, this has posed the question: has this online 'liking' become a bit, well, excessive? We all know it is not everyone that gives a thumb up to these virtual thumb ups,we all think that we know why we regularly click that little 'thumbs up' symbol or button whenever we see fit. We do it to speedily show our friends what we have a preference for, in the process shaping our public identities.
We also do it to keep track of fresh content that interests us; that could include new posts and comments released by our favorite musicians or favorite posters, or public interest stories from the local area where we live. Then, there are the opportunities to interact with online local celebrities and other like-minded people who use Facebook and Nairaland.But does such an abundance of online 'liking' also have some less
pleasant implications? This is an argument put forward by the social realist novelist Jonathan Franzen. Specifically, he has contended that Facebook's alteration of the "the verb 'to like' from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse, from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice" has exposed how consumer technology products promoted through Facebook pages can be "great allies and enablers of narcissism". British novelist Zadie Smith has expressed similar sentiments, suggesting that, for the "self-conscious" Facebook generation, "not being liked is as bad as it gets".Although it seems a reflection of the huge cultural effect of the 'like' button that it has become the specific subject of serious commentary, regardless of its negativity, we reckon that the question needs to be posed: are these arguments not overstating the case? Writing for Arts.Mic, Alexander Strecker has dismissed these arguments that "seem to posit that your entire self worth is based on garnering these precious 'likes'",pointing out that the average person has plenty of "stronger feelings and emotions"outside the realm of Facebook and the other websites that have adopted 'like' features.

Source-Apple magazine july issue(Edited)

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And 'copy and paste' cannot be the source, put the source link.

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