Remember that sad popularity contest I wrote about earlier? Well, this is definitely sadder.
Facebook has recently decided to play helicopter mom to help out some of its rather unpopular kids. A new function rolled out a few weeks ago features a not so popular kid on your homepage and tells you to “help make Facebook better for [them]” by writing on their wall, poking them, etc.
Just when you thought you got over the high school bullying, wedgies, and acne, Facebook has publicly and officially bestowed loser status upon you in front of your 500+ friends… Nice!
How Facebook has come to believe that this policy will work is beyond me. It sure as hell didn’t work when you were 9 and your mom called other parents to let their kids play with you, so why would it work now?
On a positive note, it may not be too late to salvage what is left of your dignity. If you were in fact featured as a loser (and trust me, your friends, however few you have, will tell you) reach out to people and ask them to give you some love on your wall. Alternatively, please let me know and I would be more than glad to super poke you (I still haven’t figured out what the hell that is) until Facebook takes pity on you and decides that you’re popular once again.
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