Liking your own status update

The Status Update is the status symbol of 2010, not in the sense that it allows you to show off anything valuable except it often becomes a race to see who can get the most comments to something asinine somebody posts.   One of the ways to measure 'hits' on your status update are comments but that involves people having to put some energy into it, the other is the almost no-effort option also known as the "I like this " option.  

Our dislike to this is well documented: 

·         In a world of short-hand this has become the symbol of a lack of effort out of this generation.  The like option has become the newest version of LOL which has turned from meaning Laugh Out Loud to meaning I have nothing clever to say. 

·         If you are going to offer a like option it is your responsibility to also offer a dislike option, most of the status updates could use some quality-control and there would be no better way than a dislike option

·         People seem to try to find ways to boost their self-esteem by trying to find ways to artificially  boosts their exposure

The first two parts are pretty self-explanatory but it's the last one that has the long-term effect.   See you take it all together and throw it in the blender and then stir it up and you get something that is even lamer than a person who uses their status update to tell their FB community that they are at the mall or sitting on the couch.  What you get in a world of insecurity are people who 'like' his own status.    Liking your own status ranks is like bragging about a party you had for your imaginary friends.    

 

See you have to have some self-respect and there is nothing less respectable than somebody whose overly concerned about stroking their own ego..  It comes down to this liking" your own status update is like trying to give yourself a blowjob.   You might feel like you are getting lucky but realize that you are both the receiver and the giver.