Pre-coffee pondering¹:  I thought Facebook was supposed to be a social media? That it should actively encourage people to interact with one another. Instead, empirical evidence suggests that it is more of an acknowledgement tool.

People post something and then others ‘like’ or ” 🙂 ” their words. This is not necessarily a bad thing, being acknowledged as having said something is also important. But it, I think, misses at least some of the point of social media, and Facebook in particular.

And all of this was brought on by seeing people (myself included) ask questions on their wall – and have people ‘like’ the comment and say nothing.  Or, in response to said question, people smiley-face and/or *HUG*!

 

 

I’m equally guilty of this. I think, or rather, it often is for me, a way to say “ooh, I hear you and Imma answer you, but cute kittens/puppies are the greatest thing ever!”

 

 

 

Anyway, I didn’t have a solution or anything. I was just drinking my coffee while reading FB and happened to notice a thing.

 

¹ – Under-caffeination is a serious affliction. Won’t you please help?