social media prediction

I predict that the anti-like will become as popular as the like on FB, much in the same way that Punk broke in 1991 according to the documentary with Sonic Youth and Nirvana touring. The anti-like will turn into a like just like two negative numbers multiplied become a positive number, and the world will turn topsy-turvy. I only recently got on FB but am pretty sure they had a thumbs-down icon that was bumming people out, so the marketers and the racketeers got rid of it for financial reasons, but the anti-like will seemingly be much worse than a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down (like Siskel and Ebert, so give it up Zuckerberg, you second rate social critic!). A no statement is much greater than a statement, whether positive or negative, and the un-like, a non-take, will become ambiguous and if my generation is anything it's that. How do I know this? An English teacher called me ambiguous in and 8th grade evaluation, because Oakwood was so hippy we didn't have grades.

7/14/15 (six months later)

There are different phases of fame on FB. The first level are the directors, politicians, actors, rock groups, and solo stars, that take the stage. These profiles get thousands of likes and only post to the multitudes, with no personal contact. They are the famous establishing their position, and I'd imagine most agents in Hollywood get their clients to this level, or try.

The second level may be for those without an agent, but famous enough to matter. Those who make it to this from my group are Dan Epstein (author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass), Danny O'Connor (from House of Pain), and Legs McNeil, the ultimate punk fan from the Seventies, but I'm only friends with Epstein from this group, since the other two can only be followed (something I did accidentally). There are others from my friend base who can post almost anything and anywhere from twenty to over a hundred are going to like what they did, something a neophyte like me can barely understand, in spite of whoever I knew. Personally, I can't see ever reaching this level. I'm more inclined to stay in the political wilderness on FB, or to become so popular that I all but overwhelm the circuit board, and get thousands of likes, but that's unlikely.

I exist in the third level of FB fame. I'm someone who posts somewhat creative posts and gets less than ten likes or comments. Five likes is a lot to me, and ten is astonishing, so I'm like Jesus in the desert, but I feel like I'm making headway.

I remember thinking how weird it was when I started FB that more people weren't commenting on how weird FB was, but that would be like calling BS on the party, when people are trying to have a good time, a contrarian thing to do. No one is going to get a lot of likes by doing this just like a politician won't win an election with this strategy, and yet I wanted to do it. When I first got on FB a stoner/friend who'd moved from Washington did this once or twice, and I was overwhelmed by his sincerity, and yet he painted himself in a corner. The only thing he could to stay authentic would be to quit FB, but he'd return a day or two later with a typical post making soft reflections, and making me forget he ever lost his mind one night. Maybe this is a natural tendency to such a social attempt at hierarchy, the slave screaming out only to be beat back to submission, a universal position.