Lately I have been suffering from a weird syndrome. After some investigation I have been able to pin point it as the Facebook Desperation syndrome. It is an interesting syndrome at best. It doesn't affect me too much but I know it does. I registered in Facebook relatively late at the prodding of friends who seemed to have been crazy about it. For almost a year I have been curiously interested at the postings made by friends and acquaintances. Some postings just seem like a desperate plea at getting some attention. I was enjoying the drama for a while.

It all changed one fine day when I saw a squirrel running up the tree as I was coming back from work. I took a picture of it and posted in Facebook. Little did I know that it would be a life changing for me. As soon as I posted it, I got taken over by what I now know as the FBD syndrome. I kept refreshing the page to see how many likes I get. As minutes turned into hours and hours turned into days, I still could not even get one single like! I never realized that could be so frustrating. I was leaving all my real world problems behind and reloading the damn page and checking my phone every few minutes to see if anyone liked my picture. Nobody ever did, so I did something that is considered to be an act of desperation. I liked my own post! But still, noone liked my post besides my 45 year old aunt who must have felt pity on me.

Even that make me a little happy yet with a bitter after taste of anxiety. After that incident, I have posted some more pictures with the same bitter FBD experience. People just don't like my postings. I am still wondering to this day what is the secret ingredient that will get your friends to like you in FB. Maybe I am better off cancelling my account.