Hello, Research Gate Colleagues,
Maybe some of you have been trying something like this. As an experiment I watch unpopular posts running counter to the recursive programming loop aspect of cascading "likes" to posts that give what may be called (in field of rhetoric) group-binding "fantasy themes."
Memes, going viral, etc.
Make some posts and check with a log what gets 0 "likes." I don't mean where a post is horrendous in some way but just strange and oblique to the point that people pass it by.
Now consider Alzheimer's research.
How do we help people with cognitive impairment? We get them to do something different, no matter how small because doing an entirely new thing builds new neural pathways.
Q: Are people at much younger ages mimicking the neurological "auto-pilot" behavior of seniors who tell that same family story over and over in almost the same words? What does this do to seniors?
I hit on this cross-reference because I like obscure things and many of my posts get no "likes' at all. I don't think I am offending anybody with posts about theremin music playing folk songs or such things. The readers just have 0 cognitive hooks to decide what they think and pass these posts by. I do think one English prof. colleague is on to me know and she routinely "likes" my posts just to ruin a perfect record.
What do you think of the implication of this above? Are you aware of studies on 'no like' posts on social media?
Respectfully,
Gloria
Thanks you, colleague Rozalia Klara Bako! Good tip and I will follow it.
I am surprised it took so long for anybody to become interested in this particular question.
Do you wonder about this, too? The Facebook experiment shows somewhat how it works with no-like posts being off track from media cycles and popular media buzz concepts.
I often wonder how the "symbol manipulators" keep people boxed into just a few events each day. Other events of equal importance are going on unheralded.
There is a famous painting showing Daedalus's son Icarus falling out of the sky 'way in the background. Up front and much larger a farmer is obviously plowing a field. That is to say, we think that mythic hero (those high and mighty ones in general--could be a metaphor) is part of continuing or so-called perpetual culture and that farmer just a nobody who was forgotten not long after he died, but look. Icarus wasn't the only thing going on that day.
I think the painting is by Pieter Bruegel the elder. Yes. Looked it up Bruegel painted the picture.
This question could be rephrased as asking what social theory already encapsulates a like and a social system akin to Facebook, TikTok, et al.
I just read The Book of Chuang Tzu (Penguin Ed.), and also the Buddhist Essays in Idleness and Hojoki (also Penguin Ed.). The various, diverse wisdom cultivated inside both of these collections suggests that if you make a post that gets no likes, then you are probably doing something right, possibly even aligned with the Tao (but if so, then why are you on Facebook at all?).
I've also read The Analects and Mencius Protagonists in those books would probably say that a Facebook post that gets no likes fails at leadership and the arts of government. However, they would caution that the vast majority of likes come from people who have no concept of jen, nor the Tao, so their likes are meaningless, if not possibly a negation of your virtues. Ultimately, it is not the like, but the quality of the liker, that these Confucian books point to.
Thanks Colleague TerryTrowbridge! I think what you say adds a different aspect to this problem.
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