Should number of 'Likes' on Facebook be taken seriously?

@thebigk • Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

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With the growing influence of social networking websites, especially Facebook, I find a surprising trend these days - the 'Likes' are being taken very seriously! An Indian minister has filed a complaint with the police department that the number of 'Likes' on his Facebook fan page has grown in a single day by 10,000. The minister suspects that something is 'wrong' and wants a police enquiry.

The same goes with people going crazy about the count of likes on their shared photos and videos. Do you think the number of likes on Facebook be taken seriously?

PS: Personally looking forward to views that are in favour of the argument.

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Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 • Dec 26, 2013

Bouquets and brickbats should be treated with equal indifference.

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zaveri

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • Dec 26, 2013

Facebook itself shouldn't be taken so seriously.
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Dec 26, 2013

zaveri
Facebook itself shouldn't be taken so seriously.
But people do! Right? Why do you think Facebook likes shouldn't be taken seriously?
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KSS Manian

@kss-TLq9Kp • Dec 26, 2013

Its related to different personal habit. They thought,
More likes = More smart = More familiar = More Fans = etc.
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Anand Tamariya

@anand-tamariya-DnfjEX • Dec 26, 2013

Marketers only bother about likes on product or company pages because they are worried about brand value which ultimately has monetary impact. Not sure what people would want to do with number of likes? To me looks like an useless exercise except for celebrities for whom it's matter of branding.
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Ankita Katdare

@abrakadabra • Dec 26, 2013

I think the question here is whether when you visit a new website and happen to check its Facebook page, you see some thousand likes, will that make you feel that this is already a pretty known brand? instead of when you see 10 or 20 likes, which means the brand is very new.

Crowd gets attracted to crowds. Won't that mean the 'number' of likes should be taken seriously by someone who is willing to spread it's reach?

Do share your opinions, people. 😀
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Anand Tamariya

@anand-tamariya-DnfjEX • Dec 26, 2013

Analysis of facebook likes #-Link-Snipped-#

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zaveri

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • Dec 26, 2013

Kaustubh Katdare
But people do! Right? Why do you think Facebook likes shouldn't be taken seriously?
Just answer me this and you will find out : "what does a 'like' really signify on a facebook post ?"
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Ankita Katdare

@abrakadabra • Dec 26, 2013

zaveri
Just answer me this and you will find out : "what does a 'like' really signify on a facebook post ?"
I think we should talk about Facebook page likes and not individual post likes. 😀
The facebook page is just a medium like Emails to reach out to masses, who won't check your website everyday necessarily, but will definitely see their Facebook feed/timeline. Same goes for twitter.

PS: A lot of people these days don't check emails at all. SAD. 😔
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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Dec 27, 2013

Ankita Katdare
I think we should talk about Facebook page likes and not individual post likes. 😀
My views are exactly opposite to this;
There are very few who have good knowledge about the Facebook's settings. So, once you like the Facebook page you are bound to get the notification for all the posts made to the page and that can be annoying sometimes.

Result - People unlike the page to discontinue the notifications (Though they could disable or play around with the notification settings)

Anyways, I saw few movies page has likes in millions, does that mean those are super awesome movies? No, I do not think so.

Per me, Facebook is a very strong social media medium to give benefit to your business but just number of 'LIKES' can be considers as the sole criteria to gauge the success of the same.
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Anoop Mathew

@anoop-FRTf1L • Dec 28, 2013

<a href="https://bigeye.ug/man-asked-to-make-one-million-facebook-likes-as-dowry-for-the-wife-to-be/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Man Asked To Make One Million Facebook Likes As Dowry For The Wife-To-Be - BigEye.UG</a>

How much more serious can it get? 😒

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Anil Jain

@CrazyBoy • Dec 28, 2013

Anoop Mathew
<a href="https://bigeye.ug/man-asked-to-make-one-million-facebook-likes-as-dowry-for-the-wife-to-be/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Man Asked To Make One Million Facebook Likes As Dowry For The Wife-To-Be - BigEye.UG</a>

How much more serious can it get? 😒
Ha Ha Ha.. the problem with the lover guy is total FB account in Yeman are 200000
so, the lover boy has approach other countries to get the likes... 😀

I heard this news on Radio mirchi @ Delhi, and prediction is he is going to make it 😁

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Anoop Mathew

@anoop-FRTf1L • Dec 28, 2013

Anil Jain
Ha Ha Ha.. the problem with the lover guy is total FB account in Yeman are 200000
so, the lover boy has approach other countries to get the likes... 😀

I heard this news on Radio mirchi @ Delhi, and prediction is he is going to make it 😁
Anil Jain
I heard this news on Radio mirchi @ Delhi, and prediction is he is going to make it 😁
I saw it on <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-25414584" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">#BBCtrending: Father in Yemen seeks one million Facebook 'likes' as dowry - BBC News</a> (Television Channel) and I thought he won 30000 or so likes!

Excerpt from BBC:

Those commenting on Salem Ayash's #-Link-Snipped-#seem divided on whether it's a good idea or not. Many have thanked him for raising the issue of dowry payments, but others have questioned his motivations. "All you want is to use your daughter to seek fame," writes one - noting that the Facebook likes are for his own personal page, rather than that of his daughter or her husband-to-be. Ayash told the BBC that he wants to see evidence his future son-in-law is making an effort to raise the one million Facebook likes - but he won't be rigid. "If I see that he's worked hard, I'm willing to be flexible to see them happily married."

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Anoop Kumar

@anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Dec 28, 2013

Ok, here is one interesting page on facebook
#-Link-Snipped-# , more than 6.5 million people liked this page😲. seriously.
No faith in humanity. 😯

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Shrikant Bedekar

@shrikant-bedekar-DMY0Kv • Jan 23, 2014

It depends on the person who posts the like, whether he is serious or not !!!😁😁😁
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Mrinmoy Swarnakar

@mrinmoy-swarnakar-pqfdvP • Jan 23, 2014

Originally likes signify the availability of time by the person who likes it.
The same way I am writing the comment now...
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Dhananjay Harkare

@dhananjay-0OEUGZ • Jan 24, 2014

If we take number of followers on tweeter seriously then yes, same with facebook likes too!
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Chirayu Samarth

@chirayu-JrV10r • Jan 24, 2014

NOT AT ALL...
The number of likes may signify your popularity but there are many friends in our list whom we had hardly met once.
There are several other things to be serious about than this...
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guptas.sneha

@guptassneha-hxVsiW • Jan 24, 2014

no, the likes cant be taken seriously, people are so obsessed with these likes that they have multiple accounts, which they use to increase the number of likes only, one of my cousins does this .. (seriously) i really don't understand the point behind it
but she does it.
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sauhard

@sauhard-lMAE36 • Jan 26, 2014

Don't know about seriousness but yeah fake likes are easily gettable. I got about 500k+ likes on my rival's fan page in 1 day and he got blocked 😛 That's how internet works 😀
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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Jan 26, 2014

Facebook does take number of likes very seriously, it seems. 😁
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Ankita Katdare

@abrakadabra • Jan 26, 2014

sauhard
Don't know about seriousness but yeah fake likes are easily gettable. I got about 500k+ likes on my rival's fan page in 1 day and he got blocked 😛 That's how internet works 😀
That is just awesome!
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