There comes a time in all of our
lives when we're bombarded with an obstacle that serves little to no purpose
and only manages to induce a level of frustration those on a tight schedule don't
have the time to overcome. These include, but are not limited to, pedestrian
crossings beside traffic islands; excessive use of road cones around something
like a decent-sized shard of glass; and single trees situated in the middle of
parking lots, rendering the forward-out car movement both impossible and
hazardous.
However, the most terrible man-made catastrophe is also the most recent, namely, in-your-face captions that assume people are idiots, but tell them nothing they didn't already know. The battered, beaten and torn-from-its-limbs-before-being-burned phrase, "Like if you agree".
However, the most terrible man-made catastrophe is also the most recent, namely, in-your-face captions that assume people are idiots, but tell them nothing they didn't already know. The battered, beaten and torn-from-its-limbs-before-being-burned phrase, "Like if you agree".
There's a reason why no one adds this
line to the end of their status updates. It's the same reason why a drink
bottle doesn't have "drink if you're thirsty" written on its side, or
why a pizza doesn't have "edible" scribbled all over it (in sauce).
Anyone who's anyone knows what it means to like something; and of those people, everyone knows what it means to like something on Facebook! Which therefore makes the phrase 'like if you agree' redundant in all circumstances. Yet, it's used as the caption for so many photos and quotes, predominantly on Facebook!
Anyone who's anyone knows what it means to like something; and of those people, everyone knows what it means to like something on Facebook! Which therefore makes the phrase 'like if you agree' redundant in all circumstances. Yet, it's used as the caption for so many photos and quotes, predominantly on Facebook!
Whenever I come across this phrase, I think
to myself, "As opposed to what?" or "Are there people so stupid
they have to be told to like
something?" or "You could reword that to, 'agree if you agree', since
people generally like things they agree with. And you know how stupid it would
sound then? Super stupid!"
Of course, such thoughts do nothing to better the community. Naturally, the activist in me leaps to the stage and makes its mark by not liking the post even if I agree with it simply because it has that rotten caption stuck to it like a cancerous growth. I know it's not much, but if we all did it, maybe it'd go away.
Of course, such thoughts do nothing to better the community. Naturally, the activist in me leaps to the stage and makes its mark by not liking the post even if I agree with it simply because it has that rotten caption stuck to it like a cancerous growth. I know it's not much, but if we all did it, maybe it'd go away.
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