I know a guy who back in the day would get genuinely proud of his like count. We went backpacking together and when we got back he posted a bunch of pictures of our trip. Then next time we got together he kept showing me pictures and saying stuff like “check this out dude, 300 likes on this one picture!”. I was pretty oblivious as to why that was so important to him. I knew he didn’t have 300 friends IRL, so he was placing a whole bunch of importance on whether or not a bunch of strangers on the internet “liked” his picture or not. I had posted a few pictures of our trip too, and I tagged him in the ones he was in. He got upset that I was “leeching off his ‘friends’ for likes on my pictures”. I was genuinely baffled. He didn’t want anyone tagging him because that meant his “friends” might “like” someone else’s posts instead of his.
I know a guy who back in the day would get genuinely proud of his like count. We went backpacking together and when we got back he posted a bunch of pictures of our trip. Then next time we got together he kept showing me pictures and saying stuff like “check this out dude, 300 likes on this one picture!”. I was pretty oblivious as to why that was so important to him. I knew he didn’t have 300 friends IRL, so he was placing a whole bunch of importance on whether or not a bunch of strangers on the internet “liked” his picture or not. I had posted a few pictures of our trip too, and I tagged him in the ones he was in. He got upset that I was “leeching off his ‘friends’ for likes on my pictures”. I was genuinely baffled. He didn’t want anyone tagging him because that meant his “friends” might “like” someone else’s posts instead of his.