Samson Tribune: Not Another LIKE - The Power Of Facebook

I understand how awesome Facebook is. I really do.

Everyone who is anyone, has a Facebook account. We all use it for different purposes, but it is generally accepted as a part of everyday life -

Wake up, have coffee, breakfast, personal cleansing routines, check emails, check Facebook, go to work, have lunch, check Facebook, come home, check Facebook...etc, etc.

I use Facebook to keep in touch with people in other countries, to keep up to date with topical events, brands and online entities that I LIKE and also to promote my blogs and photography business.

But I still under-estimated the power of Facebook.

Let me explain.

For a few days last week I wasn't really talking to my other half. In fact, I had sent him to that place where no-one talks (Coventry?). Why? Oh well, you know how these things work. All relationships have their own dynamics and I'm sure you have been in a situation where you don't speak to someone for a few days. Perhaps you have been in a huff, or are trying to prove a point.

And if you ask someone to bring you Sushi home when they finish work...and they then don't...well, a day can be ruined people. Ruined!

We have been together for 13 years. We generally are pretty much the same person. We hardly ever have a real argument. How boring is that?!

So anyway. With the both of us trying to out-do each other on the "not speaking" front, I decided to escalate things.

Da da da...I un-friended him on Facebook. I did. And I did it with a smile and a song in my heart.

Now, this is where I begin to realise the reach and gravity of Facebook and the "accepted" etiquette.

I told someone at work that I had un-friended my other half. Their face grew pale. Their jaw dropped. She might even have gasped and begun to tremble a little.
"You can't un-friend your partner", she said. It just isn't done.

Oh dear.

So then the game was on. Sam un-LIKED my Facebook page for my photography business. Please go here and LIKE it.

The negotiations began. There was a touch of to-ing and fro-ing. He would LIKE my page again if I agreed to friend him again. Damn it! He had me by the short and curlies.

He did Like my page again. And I did friend him again. All looked good and as it should. But of course Facebook needed then to be updated again about Sam being my partner. And if you remember, he had proposed a year ago. Indeed, he proposed on Christmas day. So the relationship status was updated to Engaged.

Ugh!

Then it began.

Thoughtful and loving friends began to LIKE the new relationship status. I started getting messages and comments, congratulating us and wishing us well. Even when I commented that it was old news, the flow of love and affection, Facebook style, continued.

Facebook notification after notification of LIKES, comments and messages kept coming. I spent all last night and some of this morning replying to these. WOW.

I never knew Sam and I were so well-loved. I am truly grateful for everyone wishing us well. But Wow. Just WOW. The power of Facebook is, on a personal level, simply astounding.

I think more people LIKED the new relationship status the second time around than when it was originally, and really, updated.

Here is just a sample -