You don’t really like this
Facebook, like every social-networking site with more than one user, has its quirks, but none, I think, weirder than this:
[P]erhaps the digital equivalent of a public bulletin board isn’t the best place to offer condolences?
Imagine writing a note saying that you were sorry a friend got dumped, and then pinning it to the bulletin board in a main hallway on your college campus, for example.
The results are about as disquieting as you’d think they are:
“The worst thing, though, wasn’t the comments,” she said. “It was when I saw that someone had clicked ‘like’.”
“Someone clicked on ‘like’? Why would they do that?”
“Someone clicked on like. I have no idea.”
Note to Facebook: Instead of looking for new and improved ways to sell us to advertisers, how about adding a Commiserate link?
