Woman Convinced ‘Friend’ Will Start Liking Social Media Posts Any Day Now

Brandon, MB.

"And all your best friends are poeple you just met!" Erica met Vanessa several years ago on vacation in Costa Rica and has stayed in touch since, in as much as anyone does these days. She grew to enjoy their back and forth comments on each others posts and looked forward to these chats.

In this world of social media, we're more connected and thus fulfilled than ever. Erica, by her own admission, is pretty online, scrolling regularily in the evenings to unwind. Like most this is an easy way to keep tabs on things of personal interest and stay in touch with those who aren't nearby. Thankfully because of this, Vanessa, living across the country, was no less close than her friends in the neighbourhood, whom she saw about as often. Erica habitually liked Vanessa's various posts of friends and family, or the meals she was fond of capturing.

This settled in to become the nature of their, like so many, relationships. However, over time she noticed that Vanessa liked or commented less and less frequently, the attention seemingly growing more and more one way. This wasn't particurarily alarming as Erica notes, "Life gets busy. I mean, you can see by her posts how much she's on the go." Such an oversight is easy to understand, if you're willing to make one yourself. “I mean the algorithm really doesn’t help, so I’m sure that’s a big factor.”

Confident that Vanessa will inevitably extend her the same courtsey, Erica constructs another lovley comment on her latest photo with her dog Henry, who generates more likes than either combined. "Even if I post more often, it's just a nce way to let them know you care." Naivety, the heart of sentiment. When it's so easy to se what everyone else is up to we fear becoming an afterthought which is often misguided, as they'd have to care about you in the first palce.