Like Emoticon Analysis

This picture of a “like emoticon” from Facebook has a quote stating “Your likes can hurt someone’s feelings, Use your likes wisely” This is automatically targeting people who are bullied on Facebook. As social media becomes more and more a part of our generation, new ways of bullying occur as well. The ad uses all logos and how they use it, is by saying a like on Facebook is one of the causes of cyberbullying and that liking a certain post can hurt someone’s feelings. My goal is to shed a deeper understanding of this, the effects of posts, comments and likes on Facebook. The credibility is true, in fact because at the bottom it added that it is directing its attention to Facebook fans and/users of the website.
Although, I must digress, as other means of hurting feelings on Facebook are not mentioned, such as …show more content…
With social media you have so many outlets of hurting people. On Facebook, a “like” can do more bad than good. At large the speaker is trying to make all of us more aware of the cyberbullying cases that take place on Facebook and by making us aware the speaker assumes the cases will drop. Makes you think that maybe you should really be self-conscious about what you post on Facebook. Users can have an argument, post an opinion/belief and just by you “liking” it another person will be able to see that and then wonder “well, why this person agreeing with that, knowing how I feel about the situation?” It’s thoughts like this that can make one cautious about liking a post. Another one is a post where someone is being made fun of or bashed about a belief for example and if you “like” their post they will assume that’s how you feel because Facebook’s like button is basically for better or worse an “Agree” button as well as the like button in the comments too. It’s evident that social media is going to be around for a long time unless there is a new way to interact socially but until then Facebook will be the main site