Rapid Facebooking - A game beyond your imaginations!!

DEDICATED TO  'LIKE VERIYARGAL'

*Strictly for people who are absolutely jobless and seek for entertainment in Facebook

Imagine a game in your FB profile

• which could  harness electricity from LIKE button ( helpful for people in Tamil Nadu). 
• floods your monitor with notifications that you need to delete them before you could even reply. 
• is a survival test for your keyboard, mouse and RAM.

Welcome to the world of Rapid Facebooking.
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How it all started?

It was 9th July 2011, 1:30 AM, when I found just 3-4 friends online. Holidays, no sleep and desperate to kill my boredom, I started a random wall post on my friend's profile which also invited a mutual friend into this convo.  We were all making fun of each other and so started liking each others comments and  replied instantly in full flow.  Three others joined the party having noticed what was going on and they adhered to the trend of liking others comments before commenting. With 6 of us, the comments rose in no time with LIKES decorated everywhere. About two hours passed and we realized we had written about 600 comments with 5 likes in each comment.

All of a sudden we created entertainment out of nothing.

We were fascinated by the speed at which everything was going on . So we began tagging people who were asleep with a notion that  next day, they  had to search for their tag under the rubble of comments we were generating. I thought there could be much more to this game and so gave the title 'Rapid Facebooking'

Rule was simple: To comment/Reply as fast as possible and LIKE everyone Else's comment without 'Self - Liking'.

That morning, 12-15 people chipped in and LIKE buttons were crying for help. The whole screen looked like stock market exchange with numbers fluctuating rapidly from top to bottom. Notifications blocked the space provided for commenting and eventually everyone had to delete them one by one. The more we deleted,  newer ones replaced them, forming a TSUNAMI of notifications. 

Advantages of this GAME -

1) Team work: People in your list will first of all be wondering what the hell is going on in your profile. With the amount of Likes and comments generated, and the chaos occurring in TICKER , people are sure to participate. Well if they don't, drag them in by just tagging them and letting them search for the tag.

2) Ethics of Liking: Also this game trains everyone to LIKE whatever, whichever, whenever and wherever posted in Facebook. Basically we spread Love through LIKE. So guys can stop worrying about their statuses performing poorly. 

3) Concentration and Reflexes: The game required high levels of concentration and reflexes to track the self-liker. Say 5 of us are playing, then each comment should have 4 likes because we shouldn't Like our own comment. (In general n-1 LIKES for  n people playing). But due to the high speed of the game, and the  adrenaline pumping, some people tend to LIKE whatever they see which could be their own comment too, and so a particular comment appears has higher likes than the rest. If someone is spotted self liking, they will be subjected to Marana Kalaai which again depends on the set of people playing.

4) Fair Play: The game doesn't need any spam to get high comments. By spamming I mean, posting alphabets and numbers as single comments. Just a normal conversation among friends would be suitable enough to start the game successfully. Probably interesting topic like Cricket or Movies would be a great choice for starters. Milestone comments can be reached in no time. 

Disadvantages -

1) Play only when Free: The game is very very very addictive. Do not waste time and play only when you are absolutely vetti. Also you need to find right set of people to initiate the game. Note that tagging hyper sensitive and short tempered people, thinking it is fun could lead to vera level conversations involving use of expletives. (although that is one way of increasing entertainment)

2)  Privacy settings loophole: Say you have set your privacy to ONLY FRIENDS. So if a friend of yours tags his set of friends in this post, that person receives hella lot of notifications but cant even see, because of your wall privacy :D.

Few tips -

When you begin the game for the first time,  identify the interested people and  find out who is talented in which field. Some have fast internet connection  and can LIKE like MAD. Some can type fast but LIKE other's comments slowly. Some are good in 'on the spot comedy' or narrating few comedians' dialogues. Some are  sensitive. So classify them and ensure you have this winning combination at all times. The next day when the game resumes, start off  by taking attendance. This is done by tagging people whoever contributed the previous day and others who are online at that time and those you find they might be interested.

Here's  a screen shot of how it  looks when this game was played. (Figure 1)

Figure 1: How the screen looks when Rapid Facebooking is at its prime.

In the 2nd pic which is below, You can see Anitha tagged with comments above and below her tag. It took her an entire day to find out where her name was.

Figure 2: Tagging and Thomsam

So enjoy the game and have fun. Feel free to join us for a quick demo. Don't misuse this gift from Facebook. Ultimately its just for passing time and not hurting people. Happy Rapid Facebooking.. Cheers.