When "Like" doesn't begin to say what you really feel

When Facebook friends post messages, members can respond in one of two ways:

1. By clicking "Comment" and writing a message underneath. Sadly, in our visually-oriented society in which the written word is becoming about as relevant as Huckleberry Hound, most folks don't take the time.

2. By clicking "Like."

Here's my suggestion for Facebook programmers: Give us more buttons. For starters, give us a "Dislike" button. Better yet, a "Hate" button.

And here are more buttons I would like to see:

Who Gives A Shit?: The go-to button for people who post messages like, "Had Del Monte Peas for dinner. They were Buy One, Get One Free."

Now I Remember: As in, "For years we lost touch and I didn't care. Now that Facebook has brought us together again, I remember why."

You Have the IQ of A Deer Tick: The ideal response to idiotic posts like "Drank alot of Bud last night and woke up naked in Branson outside the Lennon Sisters Theater" or "Does anyone know when the 4th of July is this year?"

So Sorry: "Like" is hardly an appropriate response when someone posts unhappy news. My Facebook buddy, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted last week that his father passed away. Nearly 3,000 members expressed their sympathy by hitting "Like." Those "Likes" came from people too lazy to write, "so sorry." Or, I'd have to guess, from Iran.

Get A Hotel:  Women, in particular, are always posting sappy stuff like, "Thirty years ago today I married the love of my life and he's just as sexy now as he was when he had hair on his head instead of his back." You live with him. Why not tell him in person and save bandwidth?

That said, there are, I'll admit, times when "Like" is a perfect response. For example, when you click on a link to a blog that makes you laugh out loud.

In cases like that, "Like" is perfect.