Living in a "like" Society.

 

Living in a “like” society

I’m not sure that I actually belong in the world/society I live in. By belong I mean I kind of don’t fit in mainly due to the fact that I have great difficulty if “belonging” to a multitude of different “social apps”(is that what Instagram/twitch/X/Whatsapp/Facebook/LinkedIn/ ad nauseum are known as?)

Everything I come across needs me to “like” and I feel so out of it if I don’t… an article comes across my desktop and it has 397 “likes”- and I read it and am quite neutral about it so don’t really “like” it. Is there something wrong with me?

What does it mean to “like” something?

Used as a verb I am told it means as follows:

• To feel attraction or pleasure in something or someone
• To want or wish to have something
• To do well in something
• To electronically indicate approval of something, such as a social media post
• To feel inclined or disposed
• To prefer or wish to do something

I see the 4^th bullet seems to tell me that if I “like” a post on social media it means I indicate approval of it. 397 people approve of the post I have referred to. Approve? Really? Or have we simply reached the point where we automatically click on “like” as a matter of course? I tend to think the latter.

If 397 people like what I have written do they also like me? My ego needs it!

Any chance we can include an “unlike” somewhere?