Like it or not

The other day someone shared a link on Facebook that said "let's see how many 'likes' the Bible can get!"  It struck me as weird.  And disrespectful.

Now, I can be cranky.  And I'm not very religious.  But I still think it is unseemly to fake-like the Bible.  "Like" and "Friend" have different meanings on Facebook than they do in reality, of course.  I get annoyed at those statuses saying "like if you remember these!" (Showing perocolators, drive-ins, etc.)  I mean, come on.  Not that Facebook is a productive place, but how unproductive can you get?  Does it mean anything at all if you "like" those posts?  And there are some darker things going on behind stuff like that, and the "name a movie without an 's' in the title" ones too.

A while back a "friend" "liked" a page called "The Constitution by TA" or some such, the 'TA' being a conservative group.  I like the Constitution.  However, I most certainly do not like any political group claiming it as its own.  So I absolutely do not like "The Constitution by TA" or anyone else.  I think it is disrespectful to like something like that.  Disrespectful to the actual Constitution.

Facebook is good at what it is.  Unfortunately, it is starting to get overrun with ads, and scams.  And dumb shit forwarded by people who should know better.  It's like the old chain letters ("'like' if you remember them!") that counted on people just flat being gullible.