Facebook processes 2.7 billion (yes, that’s with a “B”) “Likes” each day, according to the Spirit magazine on Southwest Airlines.
Even I have gotten caught up in the craze of watching the number of “likes” on my “A Change of Habit” page. I take a second gasp when I visit others’ sites and see their high number of friends, and the soaring number of” likes” for their books. My fragile ego tries to hang on for dear life.
What are these measures? Can we judge our worthiness or success by these numerical indicators?
I think not. I can’t imagine what our teens today, trying to piece together their identity and self-worth, go through measuring themselves in this technological grading system. Are they to be judged by the number of “friends” that they have on Facebook?
It’s time for us all to break out of the box that whatever we have been conditioned to believe about ourselves. We don’t have to be dazzling or best “liked”. It’s OK if we are just “ordinary”. It’s out of this “ordinary” that our unique calling springs. We need to be strong enough take responsibility for who we are, the wonderful, complete spirits sent to this physical planet for a divine assignment that only we can know and only we can perform regardless of what others post!
In the development of the “like” button, that button was referred to as “awesome”. I think we would be better served to remember that we are “awesome” in a crazy age of Facebook pages.
Guilt-Free Tip: It’s not important that others “like” us, but it’s very important that we “like” ourselves.
