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I think it's astonishingly cowardly, sheeplike, and maybe even un-American to curate your "likes" this way, just to disassociate yourself with a loser. If your

I think it's astonishingly cowardly, sheeplike, and maybe even un-American to curate your "likes" this way, just to disassociate yourself with a loser. If your convictions mean anything -- that is to say, if you have any -- then why would you change the public picture of them like this?

humbyvaldes 14y ago
Victory has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan
ptrwtts 14y ago
or maybe they only paid the bots to stick around until the election...
celoyd 14y ago
A Facebook “like” doesn’t just mean you like something; it means at least one of at least these options: 1. You like it. 2. You understand that “likes” are used by advertisers, distributors, etc., to track brand popularity, so you clicked like to support something that you might not personally like. (I’ve done this with, for example, friends’ projects that are of no actual interest to me.) 3. You want to see its updates. (I have a leftist friend who likes to keep an eye on the right wing and “liked” Romney on Facebook for exactly this reason, even though it’s essentially a “dislike”.) There are probably a couple others. Peer pressure, for example? Besides which, I think it’s fair to withdraw a like from something if you believe it’s outlived its usefulness. If I’d “liked” a ballot measure that failed to pass, for example, I don’t think it would be in any way dishonorable to stop following it now, even if I still completely supported its aims.
hemancuso 14y ago
This is a ridiculous arguement. You must have a lot of old bumperstickers on you car.
- beedogs 14y ago
  Or, like most people with any taste, none at all.
  - Zenst 14y ago
    I don't even have a car, guess I'm tasteless :(.
    - beedogs 14y ago
      me either, actually. living in Melbourne sort of obviates the need for a car about 95% of the time.
      - Zenst 14y ago
        True, if somebody called Levi, Wrangler or even Nike stood for election they would do better in such area's I suspect with this bumper sticker logic. Now if only he was called Nike Romney and had a logo like the Nike sign, he may of done exactly the same.
lukevdp 14y ago
Maybe they're not interested in following the page anymore because it is no longer relevant

humbyvaldes 14y ago

Victory has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan

ptrwtts 14y ago

or maybe they only paid the bots to stick around until the election...

celoyd 14y ago

A Facebook “like” doesn’t just mean you like something; it means at least one of at least these options: 1. You like it. 2. You understand that “likes” are used by advertisers, distributors, etc., to track brand popularity, so you clicked like to support something that you might not personally like. (I’ve done this with, for example, friends’ projects that are of no actual interest to me.) 3. You want to see its updates. (I have a leftist friend who likes to keep an eye on the right wing and “liked” Romney on Facebook for exactly this reason, even though it’s essentially a “dislike”.) There are probably a couple others. Peer pressure, for example? Besides which, I think it’s fair to withdraw a like from something if you believe it’s outlived its usefulness. If I’d “liked” a ballot measure that failed to pass, for example, I don’t think it would be in any way dishonorable to stop following it now, even if I still completely supported its aims.

hemancuso 14y ago

This is a ridiculous arguement. You must have a lot of old bumperstickers on you car.

beedogs 14y ago
Or, like most people with any taste, none at all.
- Zenst 14y ago
  I don't even have a car, guess I'm tasteless :(.
  - beedogs 14y ago
    me either, actually. living in Melbourne sort of obviates the need for a car about 95% of the time.
    - Zenst 14y ago
      True, if somebody called Levi, Wrangler or even Nike stood for election they would do better in such area's I suspect with this bumper sticker logic. Now if only he was called Nike Romney and had a logo like the Nike sign, he may of done exactly the same.

lukevdp 14y ago

Maybe they're not interested in following the page anymore because it is no longer relevant