My dear old mother used to say,
Try to do an act of kindness every day,
A good, old fashioned idea made easier,
By increased technology and social media.
For sending a text or an email through,
Is a low maintenance way to say, ‘I’m thinking of you,’
Without ever having to succumb to the pressure,
Of making a date to hang out together.
But probably the least taxing of all,
Is hitting a like button on the Facebook wall,
And an easy feat for you, yet the writer is agog,
By simply hitting ‘like’ at the bottom of their blog,
A mutually beneficial power of which you are endowed,
And what better place to start but here and now.
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The power of the “like” button. π
Ha, in all of our hands!
Just one click away (someone please cue up the song “I’d like to teach the world to sing” and replace sing with “Like”) π
There you go!
This is very strange – I ‘liked’ this before I liked it if you get my drift! There was me, having read your whimsical verse thinking I’ll ‘like’ this and lo and behold it was done………could this be time to visit the quack…..?
Why now? You are so wonderfully insane. Why make today the day to visit the quack? Why not tomorrow, or the next day, or never…
How can I have ‘liked’ something before I liked it though? Must be the heat – South East England is scorching today. Must be the heat……..
I’m getting terribly confused….so the like appeared on the page before you actually hit the like button?? That has happened to me but I just told myself that I must have hit the like button instead of simply clicking through…but now that you say it happened to you…? That is, if I am understanding correctly!
Using the most frightening phrase in the English language, ‘Roger that.’ Yes it appeared be I ‘liked’ – I may be insane but mad…..yes perhaps I’m going mad….I shall check with the wife, she’ll know!
I LOVE the ‘like’ button. And appreciate everyone I get.
Sometimes though it feels insufficient.
(Please read that out loud so you are sure to catch the rhyme.
I’m needy like that.)
π
Got it. Very clever. And yes, sometimes like seems insufficient. How are we to know the blog was actually read? That’s why comments are so appreciated as well ( which you are great at!)
I have had more likes than reads on posts, since they changed the reader to where a post can be liked without going to it. Or it used to be that way anyway. I do believe in commenting. Though I have to admit sometimes it gets very busy trying to read and comment AND write. π
Yes, while I love the likes, I do sometimes wonder if they become automatic. (“Oh, if I don’t ‘like’ it, she’ll think I dislike it and then… oh… ok… I’ll just ‘like’ it.”) So, I too, prefer the comments but most of my readers are the silent type. *pouty face* Besides the confirmation that the blog was truly well liked that the comments bring, it’s also just a lot more fun to interact with people than to see that star… not that I mind seeing the star, of course… π
Exactly! Sometimes it seems a like just isn’t enough (this also a quote from Chatter Master…oh that endlessly clever woman!)
I have to tell you that those Like buttons on Facebook kind of scare me. Reminds me of the pod people in “Invasion of the Body Snackers.”
Sorry then, I’m supposing my age may have frightened you!
Oh no. I have friends all ages. Besides you don’t seem to be someone who is scary. You aren’t, are you?
Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
ORT-ORT-ORT-ORT-ORT-ORT-ORT!!!!!! WILL THAT DO??? π
ORT-ORT-ORT-ORT!!!!! (Could send money, flowers or a brand new puppy????)
That all sounds even better than the like.
I thought it might…no promises, though! π
Another hats off to you for another memorable
verse! Question….can people like your post more than once? Sometimes I get notified the same person liked it twice?
Usually when I get that I think they may have accidentally hit like then hit again (to dislike) and then hit again (to relike)! I don’t know what happened but once a woman went crazy hitting the like button so that I had four notifications from her, the end result being that she didn’t like it at all. I guess I really confused her that day!
LOL… that’s funny…
Not sure this really counts as an act of kindness, but anyway, LIKE.
Thanks Sparrow! I guess this one was a bit sarcastic but I do think it’s nice to like a person’s post. Okay, you’ve done your good deed for the day. Now you are free to do evil for the remainder!
I like your poem but I’m not sure that I like Liking as a form of social validation. That being said , bring on the likes! I’ll take all I can get.
As you know, for the most part, my poetry can never be taken to seriously. The poem started out, somewhat sarcastically, saying social media was a low maintenance way of reaching out to someone, and then ended with an obvious attempt for me to try and get likes on my blog. I do think it’s kind of cool that someone sees more into my poetry than I do.
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