Face Book Likes

OK, OK, OK, I'm going to RANT about Facebook now.................




.............It's Christmas.  There's been sooooo much crap on FB over the last few days about liking this and liking that.  There's adverts for this and there's adverts for that.  FB is driving me mad.  Unfortunately I'm a bit addicted to FB.  I check it on my phone, I check it on my ipad, I check it on my laptop.  I don't actually think I go more than a couple of hours without checking my 'news feed' on FB.


I think I may be a bit addicted to FB or social media or emails or whatever.


I'm not sure that I could live without the internet???  And for a ranting middle aged spinster; that's a very, very scary thing to admit.


However what is really, really, really annoying me at the moment is the number of  'pulling at the heart strings' posts that there are on FB.  We're constantly being bombarded with photos of ill kids, 90+ war veterans, puppies that have been abandoned.......................  And they all seem to have the same 'tag'...............'Lets see if we can get 1000 likes'.???


WHY???


What is it about 'FB likes' that is sooooooo important?????


..............So................. an abandoned puppy gets 1000 'likes'??  Is that going to mean it will go to a better home than it would have done had it just gone through the 'normal' rescue channel route?


............So.................... a 90+ war veteran gets thousands & thousands of likes on FB.  Is a 90+ war veteran really going to be on FB?  I would have thought it would have meant more to a  90+ war veteran if a real live person popped in for a cup of tea and a chat???


And as for all the 'ill kids' that we're constantly being asked to 'like' on FB;  Do their parents really want people that they don't know, clicking on a button and 'liking' their status????


What is the point of all this??????


I'm as guilty as the next person for posting 'totally irrelevant crap' on FB. 


BUT - I'm using FB as a diary of my life.  I couldn't care less how many likes or comments I get.  As far as I'm concerned that part of FB is irrelevant to me.


However when I was at my sisters at Christmas, my 16 year old niece wanted her mum to post a picture of the cake that she had made on her FB page.  And when I asked why she wasn't posting it on her own page she said, 'Mum's friends will appreciate it more and I'll get more likes'.  To me that is very, very sad.


I've obviously got a lot more to learn about way FB works???


There again I'm old enough not to care?!


I post what I want.  I do what I want.  I LOVE FB but I use it how I want. xxx