Remember this article I had written sometime back about how even people who are dead long back were “clicking on” Like button on Facebook for some sites peddling products, that while alive they wouldn’t have touched with a 100 ft long pole? (Now even the Dead Can’t Keep Away from Facebook!!)
In that post there were instances where people – living – were also seeing pages showing up as “Liked” which they would never do.
Apparently, Facebook has taken care of that anomaly.
Now, it only anonymously “clicks” Like button for pages peddling stuff that people may like. For instance this happened to ME. Look at the screenshot below. I swear I didn’t like this page for “Satinder Sartaj Sahib”. Now, I like the guy and if asked and had the inclination, would have liked the page as well. But, I didn’t. So, I know FB is psyching the heck out of “poor me” and playing mind games… this tech devil this!
Tags: facebook, Like button, Online Communities, Social network, Twitter
You just mirrored my own thoughts about FB…..what the heck is happening or hacking?
Few days back i got a call from my friend and she was like what the hell is going on?I was taken aback and wonderingwhats got into her.She continued,”Has your daughter gone out of her mind?”Now i was completely lost and scared with her words.Before I could ask she blurted,”your daughter has just liked an “MILF” page on FB !Not just like she has commented too!”
I was really very shaken! I couldnt think my teenage daughter could ever do this! We are from a very conservative family….and something like this wasnt acceptable in our society!
My first reaction was to give a sound shouting..but i controlled my urge to do so..I went calmly and asked her to open up her FB account..she was perplexed at this…and when we did..Lo..her account showed she had liked the page and when we further looked it showed a comment..’5″ written too on that page by her!We further scrolled down that page…there were few more names with the comment “5″ and like..we immediately deleted that page from her account!
She never knew however did that page got liked ! She had not “clicked”!
A small like clicked on that page would have been viewed by all her friends.We come from a small city in India..this could have spread like fire among her classmates..what would the male friends think?What would my relatives think?This wasnt the end…some of her friends too had similar experience with the same page on that very day!
However modern the world has grown up..these things are not taken lightly in our society!Who is it to be blamed ? FB ?Is it safe for our children to use these social networking sites any longer?