Occasionally, I see some of my friends liking their own statuses on Facebook. The worst cases are those that write some preachy quote, say - "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going" - and liking it after that. Come on. The sentence may be meaningful, but after you have liked it yourself, it just dropped several levels in terms of meaning and credibility while rising more than a few notches in lameness.
If you translate it to real life, it's like making a sentence, say, "Couples need to spend time and effort to understand each other." Followed by "Yes, I really liked what I just said." How lame is that?
Let's make something clear. When you post something on Facebook, it already implies that you like it. Liking your own status is just overkill, and gives others (at least, me) the impression that you desperately want others to like your quote too.
As one Facebook page puts it - "Liking your own status is like high-fiving yourself in public". How very apt.
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