Your comment really speaks to a larger problem that social media would appear to have created, that being a &quot;need&quot; for as you put it social validation.  You hear stories about people becoming severely emotionally distressed because they only get a low number of &quot;likes&quot; an confront friends for not &quot;liking&quot; or commenting.<p>It just feels (to me at least), that this is a problem.  Granted before what we consider to be the electronic age of social media, this kind of validation existed -- for example, getting a phone call from a friend would give one a similar level of validation - I have a friend! He&#x2F;She likes me enough to call me!&quot; - it wasn&#x27;t something someone expected to happen every ten minutes and it wasn&#x27;t something that required you to do anything.t<p>Now that we are all connected, we post, we expect validation that someone has read the nugget we posted.  Yay! Friends!<p>I dunno, just strikes me as something to be leery of..