I've long hated the Like button in Facebook - along with a lot of other features of FB.
At best, it's a lazy way to express one's like of something one sees on Facebook: a friend's posting, or news.
At worst, it's a slippery slope into receiving incessant and interfering posts from organizations trying to sell crap.
Here's what George Orwell predicted in his book 1984, written in 1949:
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten ... Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness a little smaller".
Prophetic, eh?
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