why you cannot dislike facebook

once again
tni hits the proverbial
nail in the balls

Negative sentiment – disliking – is asymmetrical in its power to shape consumer’s opinions of a brand: for every 10 likes, 1 dislike could tear a brand apart.

go ooooon

But we are not allowed to dislike. And herein lies a way out of the Like Economy. Dissent, dissensus, refusal are not easily afforded in Facebook. Dissenters have to work for it: they have to write out comments, start up a blog, seek out other dislikers. They are not lulled into slackivism or “clickivism,” replacing the work of activism with clicking “like” on a cause as if the sheer aggregate of sentiment will make someone somewhere change something

i am a selfstyled
disliker
of all the hundreds of folks
ive known
i am one of three
to ever opt out
of the facebooks

ive long hated it
first the bougie elitism
with which it left
alumni of my school
out of its loop

later its sicklysweet
commercialization
anything commerce
picks up with such a frenzy
is to be

deeply

distrusted

but what a great picture
amirite

fig23a death to myspace

bloody brilliant phrase
sovereign consumer too
because it can never be you
personally
it is an abstraction
you personally
are a servant
just like all the rest of us
from the c suite to the pee moppers

we serve
the idea
that nothing is free

not even freedom

i gave my facebook profile to a homeless man

yours for the revolution
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