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The One Change Facebook Can Make To Create A Better World

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This past Saturday I came across a Facebook post I thought deserved some recognition:

 

After the initial shock and disgust, I spent some time thinking about the underlying reasons yielding such an inane post.

The Problem

Several issues intertwine to produce this one post. First, her fiance tells her — expressly — that the act of excessive caloric intake and deliberate disregard for one’s health makes her “beautiful.”  Next, the fact that she considers expressing her gluttony to the world as something to be proud of is beyond troubling. While these issues can serve as future ROK posts onto themselves, there remains one other issue I’d like to address. And that is the Facebook “like” system.

This was posted at 5 in the afternoon, and within less than a day it had accumulated 20 “likes” from her friends (up from the 18 at the time of screenshot). Of those 20, 17 are females and the remaining 3 are the presumably white knighting males we’ve all come to know and ridicule love.  So this girl not only has direct approval to mimic a piglet from her husband to be, but she logs in and sees that her behavior is condoned twenty times over. In other words our female friend here inhales a bucket of fried fast food and receives nothing but positive reinforcement.  

Unfortunately this is not something that is unique in our present time. We’ve all seen it before. A fat girl posting a picture of herself in a slutty dress, and the “likes” pouring in like offers of coworker betas to take a female colleague to lunch. Or the 35 year old woman posting pictures of her still partying and a deluge of “you go girl” comments flooding her Facebook.  It happens on a daily if not hourly basis here in America.

However, there is at least one way to tame this out-of-control beast.

The Solution

I knew this girl many years ago. Before Facebook. She was insanely obsessed with not only her image but also her weight. She always aimed to be absolutely stellar in her looks. Fit, fashionable, feminine. So what happened? Well, many things. First, the deterioration of America in general. Second, she found a man to marry her, so as with most all girls in America, she gave up in life.  And so on.

But there remains no doubt in my mind that the Instagram and Facebook culture, as demonstrated directly herein, played an active part of shaping that female hamster. And with such an integral part of shaping a girl’s mindset being this medium, how absolutely wonderful would it be if their attempts at validation were met with not only indifference, but direct rejection? It can happen, if only there was a “dislike” button.

Fat girl posts a picture? Dislike. Girl cooing at her date buying her roses on the third date? Dislike. Blah blah blah…blah blah “rape culture!” Blah blah! Dislike. Long political rant from anybody? Dislike. The 154th picture of a gastronomy-based dinner the Asian chick you barely know gushes about? Dislike. You get the point. If this girl logged in the next day and saw 20 “likes” and 30 “dislikes,” I guarantee you she would think twice before scarfing down a bucket of KFC during a single sitting. At the very minimum, she would not post about it.

In light of the just-concluded #fatshamingweek, if we just focus solely in the realm of fat girls a huge [pun intended] change could occur. Now she knows that yes we see those rolls you’re trying to hide, yes we don’t want to see that exposed thunder thigh, and yes we do find you disgusting. Maybe, just maybe that afternoon she will forego that donut with her coffee. Maybe that morning when she logs in and sees 13 “dislikes” instead of 15 “likes” she may just waddle over to the gym. The possibilities are endless.

The Sad Truth

Unfortunately this will never happen. I’m not the first one to come up with this idea. Facebook has already addressed this novel concept and rejected it, as they want to keep Facebook a positive place. While there are some hacks to implement a means of a dislike button, there will never be an official one through the website. And that makes me sad.

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71 thoughts on “The One Change Facebook Can Make To Create A Better World”

  2. I simply hate all this positivity bullshit everywhere. People need the truth not positive thinking when bad things happen.

    1. A woman will tell her friend what she wants to hear. A man will tell his friend what he needs to hear.

      1. Therefore a healthy relationship/marriage is one in which both tell each other what they want to hear and what they need to hear, depending on the situation. Did I get that right?

    2. It’s part of the feminizing of culture. Observe how women talk to each other. They say soothing things but stab each other in the back. Men, on the other hand, give each other a rough time but have each other’s backs in times of crisis.

      1. Women compliment each other and don’t mean it. Men bust each other’s balls and don’t mean it.

      2. Well you can’t generalise. I’ve seen and had friendships that were based on honesty no matter how harsh the truth was.
        But women do have this obsession with the perfect man n the perfect relationship and true love so they tend to look for signs of those things everywhere, even when it’s not the case, such as those two idiots from the article.
        True love means encouraging each other to be better not settling and giving up on perfecting yourself. Their marriage will end badly and they’ll wonder what went wrong, I can bet on that.

      3. Hahaha you got it, this is sooooo true and the reason why I prefer having male friends rather than women.

  3. There will not be a dislike button until facebook suffers from not having one. If they lose 200million members that will come back if such a button was made then we can see all going well. Lets face it, people have shit to say and not all of it is positive. If you ask or post something which anyone can post on then expect negative and positive from it.
    Although I’m sure I would create like 150 FB accounts and dislike fat girls and feminists and entitled womens posts.

  5. I hate everything about Facebook. Literally everything. Its smug user-friendly blue, its desperate need to know where I live or what I’ve eaten for breakfast that morning. I am sick of social networks being the primer for a life. I hate the people I know that use it because all it seems to do is reveal quite explicitly how much of a simpleton they continue to be, and frankly that’s depressing.
    But the worst part? People think their Facebook is evidence of a life. Social networks have made the need for notifications more important than the ability to talk to a stranger.

      1. but i should add that facebook is enormously useful for marketing. we use it extensively in our business, and any small business owners should consider this…

    2. This is literally true.
      Go up to a girl at a bar. Have a ‘standard’ conversation.
      After the first two questions, if her phone buzzes with a notification (not even a text message), she will drop-out of the conversation to check the notification.

    3. “Stylish” is a Firefox plugin that can render it a classy black. Works for youtube, too.

  6. Very ironic post considering that ROK has a facebook page. Consider how many feminazis, fat chicks, white knights and manginas will click on dislike button for ROK if a dislike button was ever introduced.

    1. i think that is besides the point. the writer is correctly referring to the positive reinforcement that INDIVIDUALS receive from behaviors/ statements that are objectively negative.
      ROK isn’t an individual; it’s a website, and frankly i don’t think any of the writers or readers would give a damn if the dislikes vastly outnumbered the likes.

      1. True true. I understand and agree with the writer’s article. It was just a thought that crossed my mind about the irony of the potential number of dislikes for ROK if such a button was introduced.

    2. So what? Youtube hasn’t crashed yet so it could work for facebook as well. The haters are gonna dislike, the supporters are gonna like and in the end you’ll have an estimated value for that page.

      1. Typically, youtube videos get over 95% likes. One of the rare exceptions of a disliked video was that male feminist who droned on about how the concept of misandry was “bullshit”, lzozlzozl

    3. Ironic also considering that on ROK anyone can like (upvote) a comment, but “you must sign in to down-vote” a comment.

  7. Although I support the idea of introducing the dislike button, my opinion is that it wouldn’t be a good solution.
    Why? At first, most of the people will divide into 2 groups: those who dislike like maniacs (and therefore have almost no significance), and those who are scared enough to use it once a month (and therefore have almost no significance).
    Now, let’s assume that some time has passed and that people are using dislikes like they use likes (although I think the number of honest, worthy dislikes will be low for a long time). Faced with a lot of dislikes, I imagine the girl mentioned in the post (and most of the others) would unfriend a lot of the people who disliked. What happens then? Problem solved! After some time, she will think: I didn’t need them anyway, they were not true friends, my true friends have shown their loyalty with their likes. So, the dislikers will only succeed in having less friends on Facebook, but they can do it already, with less effort.
    My proposal: block her. Block all the similar people. Let them live their sad lives. Even though it might seem like giving up, or not solving anything, you can all do just fine without ever having to think about such people, despite their increasing percentage.

  8. there has been a dislike option for years you fags, you needed an addon for that. Looks like it didn’t get much popular anyway

  10. or…..you can take my 2 step solution to facebook problems.
    1.Deactivate facebook account(you can’t delete it. It dwells in the database forever)
    2.Move on with life.

  11. This would be a half measure at best. The most positive change one could hope for from Facebook is that it somehow disappears altogether. I had an account briefly, and in under three months it came to serve as a perfect microcosm of social dysfunction and a living tableau of the DSM-V.

  12. Facebook can’t have a dislike button because we aren’t allowed to stray from the feminist hivemind groupthink opinion.

  13. Law Dogger, I appreciate your efforts, I really do. But the reality is that these things you talk about *are* part of culture now. They are what defines not only America, but all of the Anglo world and much of the west. It’s simply inescapable. From now on we’re all going to have to deal with gluttonous boasts, angry feminists, and chicks with perpetual gourmet cuisine fetish like your asian friend.

  14. This post has inspired me to take matters into my own hands and type “Dislike” into comment boxes on Facebook.

  15. I never thought about this before. Can you imagine the field day Manosphere dudes could have on Facebook with a dislike button?
    I wish November was #simpshamingmonth.

  16. There has to be a positive correlation between how often a guy writes “OMG” and how often his girlfriend abuses fried chicken.

  18. Eating junk food every day doesn’t actually make you fat, it just makes you sick. Skinniest I’ve ever been was when I was depressed and eating McDonald’s every day. I weighed 95 pounds and I looked like I had radiation poisoning.

  19. Fuck waiting for a dislike button. Just troll with abandon.
    “DAMN RIGHT GUUUUURL! YOU DESERVE TO HAVE YOUR WEDDING AT DENNY’S”
    “By the looks of you, he must have a whole lot of true love!”
    Et cetera

    1. They’ll just delete the comment. Shame needs a public element for it to work. Quit facebook years ago, btw.

  20. Undeserved positive reinforcement is far more evil than a swift kick in the ass.
    Imagine if someone that Hitler respected when he was young had given him positive reinforcement for his hatred of various groups. What might the world think of such a person today?

  22. Guess we need to tell everyone to (1) install Firefox and (2) use the Facebook Dislike add-on.

  24. Girl posts photo on a beach with her ultra-safe bearded hipster boyfriend.
    105 likes
    A year after that,
    Girl posts photo of her baby
    105 likes
    At least three ex-fuckbuddies in that like list, and the guessing game is on on how many of the men who liked were ex dick.toys of the now holy mother.

    1. This is a bigger problem that should be addressed……… the mind of a woman cannot handle an application like Facebook.
      Look none other than the behavior of exes. A large majority of the women I’ve had relationships with are still friended to me on Facebook. They have a voyeuristic, chronicled list of updates of everything going on in an exes life.
      And as a man ages, his value does nothing but go up (unless he’s wasted his potential). All of your exes, to this end, have a firsthand look on the change in value over the years. Certainly most men are doing bigger things than when they were Burned by these women during the high school / college years, and women know this.
      How does this fare for the men *RIGHT NOW* in the relationship with a girl?
      She is a permanent cheat risk.
      I have girls I dated 5 years ago when I was in high school who are still willing to hang out, send pics, suck my dick (if we’re geographically close)………WHILE they were still dating other guys.
      And there is no possible way for me to brag about this here, as *IVE* most likely been in the same position!
      And so have you!
      Males and females alike are generally bad at handling old flames. But there’s no question in anyones mind who is the worst gender at it.

  25. Hey if you can eat a bucket of KFC and not turn into a gross pile of lard then it’s fine. I kinda doubt it though.

  26. Socialized spaces like Facebook will never be conducive to free speech. Any kind of actual free speech is just labelled hate speech and blocked. We need to move away from those areas to places with zero censorship.

  27. As people seem to have forgotten, or they haven’t been around on the internet long enough, Facebook DID have a ‘dislike’ button.
    At first these buttons were called ‘thumbs up’ and ‘thumbs down’ but because they were seen as not useful and non-conducive they removed both of them in an interface update somewhere in early 2008.
    http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/04/15/facebook-simplifies-news-feed-interface/
    Because there were so many people clamoring that the removal of the thumbs system was a bad decision, they magnanimously presented us with the ‘Like’ button. Picturing the old ‘thumbs up’ icon. Never did we see the return of the ‘ thumbs down’ icon.
    One of the main grievances they had with the thumbs down was that people never explained them, so how would people know how to improve or do something about it. Also it could be hurtful to the person posting.
    Go figure.

  28. True love is bangin two hot Polish girls in stockings and heels in front of your Fiance and her telling you how manly you are.

  29. It probably exists already, but a kind of “anti-facebook” site that consolidates posts that are begging for a “dislike” click may be usefull. Easy to do with screenshots, like you have here. Sort of like “People of Walmart”. Would be great to link the negative entry to the actual post so that people seeing the original can click through to the site mocking the original post.
    Obviously the facebook user, or facebook itself could easily prevent the linking though…

  30. I have to wonder why- unless this girl was a relative- you would have such a beast as that on your friends list to begin with. I mean, unless she is your well-this-beats-beating-off-to-internet-porn absolute last resort, why would you want to waste your time with crap like that? Instead of “disliking” all the crap that turns you off get up off your lazy arse and live. Go workout. Go do some approaches on women who you find attractive. Why waste your life agonizing over stuff you can’t change?

  32. This is a true problem, but an unnecessary solution – the solution is already there.
    *Defriend*
    “Me and my girls are going to have fun with this bucket of #KFC!!! #fuckmen! #thinprivilege”
    *Defriend*
    Problem solved. Your facebook feed has someone elses issues on display. Stop making it your responsibility to “fix” broken women, for it is a Sisyphean task. The “dislike” button would be fruitless – know why? *Defriend* – anyone who effectively uses the dislike in this manner gets defriended – Facebook allows users to “preen” their positive ego assuaging – and they do this by adding friends. It will be just as rewarding to them in defriending you as it was for you to (fairly) shame her behavior.

  33. “I knew this girl many years ago. Before Facebook. She was insanely obsessed with not only her image but also her weight. She always aimed to be absolutely stellar in her looks. Fit, fashionable, feminine. So what happened?”
    She got wise.

  34. Mr Law Dogger: you have forgotten one critical thing; no one would use the thumbs down button because your identity would be revealed! In the same way you blacked out the names to protect your identity, no one would fat shame or thumbs down a post since it would reveal your true feelings to the poster. So sorry – your theory would not work in practice

    1. I am not so sure about this…. Yelp reveals you identity and yet people often post very negative reviews about businesses. Youtube may reveal an identity and there isn’t a place with more hate than Youtube comments. I think Facebook would benefit from a thumbs down due to a one reason alone that people tend to be more eager to share criticism than a positive opinion.

  35. Yeah facebook should have a dislike button. Youtube has a dislike button and there is way more red pill content on there than facebook ever will have.

  36. Real men dont use facebook. How can you juggle women when they are constantly posting and trying to say you are dating? Nope. Not for me.

  37. OR you can just…unfriend. Why being friend with people you look down at ?
    This article would have been more accurate if it was not led by your seemingly obsessive favorite subject, fat girls. Though I agree with you, some of my contacts are overweight and I will certainly not encourage them in that direction or like any f*cking post about how they got lazy and are eating McDonalds in their bed (yuck -_-).
    But what about duck faces from your slander contacts on facebook ? The urge some people, both girls and boys, have to post about anyhting, anytime, all the time, and all people licking them just liking even if there is no interest whatsoever ? The urge that some people have to even post status on a public mode, which is probabely the most disgusting and stupid thing anyone can do with facebook ?

  38. I like how he kept talking about how obsessed she is with her image. Isn’t this entire website about image? Everything that I have disgustingly laid eyes upon has been about the image that men or shall I say masculine men are supposed to maintain. I shall I also say that he seems a little bit obsessed with her image and every women’s image. HOW are girls supposed to be the median of everything??? Not too tall, too short, too skinny, too fat, too pretty, too ugly, too slutty, too prude, too sweet, too mean, too anything at all. Please quit objectifying women like this and teaching the next generation, of which our history has already gone through, that is women are equal in every which way to men.

  39. how about just unfriend people you dont care about instead of passive-agressively hurting their feelings?

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