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Originally Posted by Barnard's Star
It's a web forum, dude. If I can't waste time at work talking about irrelevant shit here then where can I?
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Don't get me wrong, I wasn't being an angry old fart. I just find it comical. Akin to ranking top 40 music based on the t-shirts worn at the local high school. Interesting on one level (if you're trying to turn a profit out of it), but also entirely meaningless.
From a sociological perspective, a Facebook "like" really has very little correlation to actual "liking" of something, or supporting a team, or whatever. By design, it's entirely about the level of "showing my friends what I think is cool". Which is kinda related, but not really. When the larger media looks into this, I laugh my ass off at how they think "likes" mean anything other than peacockery.
For the record, Iron Maiden is the highest selling band of all time according to my t-shirt survey.