Facebook experience.

This is my seventh year on Facebook, and with the years, comes observations, and observations begets experience.

The like feature has been one of the most controversial features of Facebook. It has come with so many misinterpretations.

The Problem:
Girl-A posts a photo of herself and gets only 10 likes. Girl-B posts a photo of herself and gets 120 likes. Worthy of note here is,  Girl-A appears to be more decent in the photo.

Girl-A turns purple face by her low-like count, she begins to think she didn't get as much likes because she's not as hot as Girl-B, or in a case where she's convinced beyond all doubt that she's prettier, she begins to question the loyalty of her friends. 'why did I get only 10 likes?' She soliloquizes.

On the flip side, Girl-B starts to feel on top of the pyramid, she begins to chew the ego that comes with stardom. she even brags to her friends about her like-conquest. 'If I post a photo, I get of over a hundred likes' she brags as if likes can add petroleum subsidy. "who like don epp? "  her shrewd friend counters.

The Discovery:
What they are ignorant of is the size of their friend list. Girl-A has just 90 friends, made up entirely of people she knows, while Girl-B has 4,120 friends on her list, of which she barely knows 100.

The Solution:
Facebook posts should have a like system based on percentage calculation. That is to say, your like status would be based on the percentage of likes you get relative to your audience (friends). Since one friend can only like one post once.

A line of code or two can fix this.

If this is implemented, Girl-A would get 11.1% likes, while Girl-B would get 2.9% likes.
See the difference?
In that case, no one will feel socially irrelevant or an overnight celebrity or harbour delusions of love/hatred.

The benefits:
It would eliminate trivial friends from the list of a Girl-B person. Trivial-friends whom she wouldn't accept but for like-sake, trivial-friends who might even hack into her account and post obscene contents, trivial-friends who only invites her to play candy crush or other annoying apps, trivial-friends who might hack into her account and add all the friends on her list to useless groups, trivial-friends who would generate unnecessary notifications...

Her account will be more secure and her confidentiality increased. The benefits goes on and on.

Thanks for reading.