A large part of my daily rituals include checking up on my ‘online presence’ frequently throughout the day: checking my Twitter, seeing if I have any new e-mails and refreshing for new posts on a forum I read frequently.
Oh, and of course, constantly checking Facebook. No I am not a stalker!
But I digress. Anyway, while trawling through the status updates and group joining notifications on my Wall, I noticed something new:
Look at the arrow if you can't spot it
Now I’m not sure when this started happening, and it appears to be the smallest of things, but it now appears you can ‘Like’ individual comments that you and your friends make.
It’s annoying enough when you post something on a friend’s wall or comment their photo and you get all their friends liking it, leading you to get countless notifications from people you don’t know.
But now the ability to like even the smallest of things Likeable – I don’t think you can get much more Like-crazy than that.
But it doesn’t surprise me that the change has been made. Ever since the good ol’ thumbs up was introduced to Facebook, we’ve seen it spread to other areas, such as Youtube:
comment from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67LgpJBPPE
and even t-shirts:
from CharGrilled
The ‘Like’ has almost become a cultural icon of sorts – maybe even one of the defining icons of our generation.
I don’t find it that annoying (except maybe the notification spamming part of it) but I think it’s kinda cool that such a simple thing has blown up and made it into the real world.
I expect to see this sort of thing on my uni work soon…
...and maybe a Dislike stamp for when I flunk an assessment
