Facebook "friends" and "like"

Look them up in the dictionary.

A "friend" is someone who you know and share an affinity with. 

"Like" is similar-- someone who, or something that, you share an affinity with.

Is someone who you haven't had contact with for 50 years, or never met at all face-to-face, your "friend"? Just because you "like" someone or something, does that mean you want to know everything about them? Not in my book.

Sometimes Facebook "friends" barely rise to the level of "acquaintance". Sometimes Facebook friends are what we used to call "perfect strangers"--"if I bumped into them on the street I wouldn't know them". When you "like" someone or something on Facebook, the barrage of posts to your Facebook from that person or thing may severely test your definition of "like".

I like the old definitions of "friend" and "like".

PS  Don't like this. Otherwise, expect a barrage of unwanted posts to your Facebook!