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[craigos]

Oh, I'll be OK. It was just an observation. Thanks for the concern.

Good to hear brother, just be happy within yourself, that's the only person you need to please.

 

[raskolnikov]

You should of sent the invite as a group private message.

That way you can see who has seen the invite and who hasn't.

You can see it on the invited guests page too. They've all seen it.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

I'm a bit like this, will most likely 'like' something if it has under 30 likes but over 100 likes i usually don't bother.

And i've stopped giving out birthday greetings on peoples walls, Interesting scenario when some people give anyone a birthday greeting and yet you never get one from them.

Really makes you think what they have against you

I don't really post on people's walls for their birthdays, except for very close friends, if I have a few good 'back in the day' photos that present a good opportunity to humiliate them.

I'll always reply if someone leaves a post on my wall for my birthday and, something a bit more thoughtful than "Thanks!" if I can, but seriously, the people whom you haven't seen since high school who just post "Happy birthday!" and maybe a cake emoji...where do they expect you to go with that?

Always a bit awkward when someone wishes me a happy birthday after I've completely ignored their birthday that was like a week earlier, but that's another rule for me with Facebook: if I don't have your phone number, you're not in consideration for a birthday post. If you are in my phone, I'll probably send you an SMS.

 

[radiojake]

I'm a bit like this, will most likely 'like' something if it has under 30 likes but over 100 likes i usually don't bother.

a while ago my gf posted a new profile pic and it got to 99 likes and stayed there for ages

I don't use facebook so I was able to tell her 'you gotta 99 likes, but I ain't one of them'

She didn't seem to appreciate that as much as I did -

 

[akkaps]

And i've stopped giving out birthday greetings on peoples walls,

Same. I’ll only pm people, and only a handful of my close friends and family.

 

[The Dice Man]

+1 for rinsing dishes before they go in the dishwasher.

 

[Cruyff14]

I will write on most people's walls for their bday.

 

[the_interloper]

No I'm not complaining. I just found it surprising. Like I said, I think that's a pretty decent test of whether it's worth being friends on Facebook with someone, whether they can be bothered liking one of the 2-5 truly momentous occasions that most of us will have in our lives.

I wouldn't have thought that spending $160 per head equates to taking a second to click on a button. There isn't a budget on likes, as far as I'm aware.

In a roundabout way, I guess I'm saying that my friends is probably twice as big as it needs to be, minimum, and I was always of the opinion that the number of friends I had was on the conservative side.

Yes you are complaining, you felt your wedding deserved more inter web cred, and I think you're priorities may be out of whack. Delete all of those heathens who didn't like it!

 

[GPW1]

if you get married and only get 100 likes, did you even really get married at all?

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Yes you are complaining, you felt your wedding deserved more inter web cred, and I think you're priorities may be out of whack. Delete all of those heathens who didn't like it!

You're welcome to make whatever inferences you choose, or you can take the subject on face value as "Is a Facebook friend's wedding post automatically worthy of a like?". You can expand it to "Are you more likely to post 'Happy Birthday!' on a Facebook friend's wall, or 'like' their wedding post?" if you like. For some reason, people seem more inclined to do the happy birthday thing, which surprises me.

The number of likes my post got wouldn't have been in the top 20 things that bothered me or pissed me off over the wedding/honeymoon period and overall, the wedding was brilliant. So hopefully that gives people a general gauge of my concern about it all.

 

[WCErevival]

I never like friend's wedding, engagement or baby posts. If someone didn't want to be friends with me because of that then I don't think they were worth being friends with anyway.

 

[SugarShane]

Honestly, not complaining here, just sharing a story. My wedding was three weeks ago and when I posted the obligatory 'hey, we got married' message with three accompanying photos, it just cracked 100 likes (well under a quarter of my friends, even including the likes from friends of my wife whom I'm not friends with).

So my question is: why are you friends with me (or perhaps vice versa) if you can't be arsed liking a wedding post? OK a few aren't regulars on Facebook and may not have seen it, but I consider it to be a rule: you're obliged to like a friend's engagement/wedding/preggers/baby post, no questions asked. If you can't, delete them.

I use not liking wedding/baby posts as a Facebook power move.

 

[Richo is God]

People just don't give a shit as much as you think they probably should

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

What I hate about Facebook is the way they show you the most popular posts first. I would rather see them in order of newest to oldest. If I'm on my laptop I select the 'most recent' option but lately they only show you about half a dozen posts and that is it I am finding that it is becoming unusable for me as I am missing important things (like a friend's wedding!) because I have to wade through a lot of dross and bail out from boredom before I ever get to the important posts.

 

[iluvparis]

a while ago my gf posted a new profile pic and it got to 99 likes and stayed there for ages

Obviously a bikini holiday shot

 

[iluvparis]

Oh and just went back and checked and my engagement post flogged MC E D's wedding with a cruisy 127 likes

 

[Cruyff14]

The Instagram post I shared regarding my engagement got 177. I think doing the actual relationship change thing got around 250.

 

[craigos]

I have like 6 followers on twitter, none of which I know. Which is great because I can be as racist and sexist as I like with no consequences and my friends in real life (which is also 6) can't see what a piece of shit I really am.

 

[iluvparis]

I have like 6 followers on twitter, none of which I know. Which is great because I can be as racist and sexist as I like with no consequences and my friends in real life (which is also 6) can't see what a piece of shit I really am.

And can freely like provocative photos posted by twitter/insta sluts

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Oh and just went back and checked and my engagement post flogged MC E D's wedding with a cruisy 127 likes

Bugger! What was the ratio (likes/friends)? Much activity from your fiance's friends (i.e. not mutual friends)?

I bet it's because we did it stupidly and had a kid first...there's only so many times you can click 'like' on a single person's page I suppose. Are my Facebook friends Dolloped out, I wonder?

Related Facebook note #1: yes we did the mandatory Facebook event for the Sunday after party and yes, barely anybody responded, even to say that they couldn't go (and yes, that was genuinely irritating).

Related Facebook note #2: as predicted, I'm getting the usual happy birthday messages today from people I literally haven't thought about since they sent the last one through 12 months ago. Some of these people must do this for everyone in their friends list. Who could be bothered?

 

[iluvparis]

Seems I have 230 friends so smashed the 50% barrier.

 

[perthblue]

Oh and just went back and checked and my engagement post flogged MC E D's wedding with a cruisy 127 likes

congrats on the engagement

*like*

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Seems I have 230 friends so smashed the 50% barrier.

That's outstanding. Actually, since I have nothing better to do, I just checked and my engagement post did better than my wedding post too. What the hell is going on?

It can't just be that I've become a much bigger campaigner recently, surely?

 

[the_interloper]

You're welcome to make whatever inferences you choose, or you can take the subject on face value as "Is a Facebook friend's wedding post automatically worthy of a like?". You can expand it to "Are you more likely to post 'Happy Birthday!' on a Facebook friend's wall, or 'like' their wedding post?" if you like. For some reason, people seem more inclined to do the happy birthday thing, which surprises me.

The number of likes my post got wouldn't have been in the top 20 things that bothered me or pissed me off over the wedding/honeymoon period and overall, the wedding was brilliant. So hopefully that gives people a general gauge of my concern about it all.

I think you're overthinking the likes thing man.

 

[akkaps]

Related Facebook note #1: yes we did the mandatory Facebook event for the Sunday after party and yes, barely anybody responded, even to say that they couldn't go (and yes, that was genuinely irritating).

Wedding after party?? Never heard of such thing. Isn’t that just the reception??