Digital Pessimism We hope to disappoint
Cake, Oklahoma City anonymous citizen, joined the social network Facebook in 2010 and since then has not stopped launching friend requests across the globe.
The truth is that things will not go well and no one took any of their requests, which although Robert did not throw in the towel.
Always was telling his mother when this he looked tirelessly clicking the button to request friendship: “ Mom, it’s better to give than receive “.
It was just a month ago when the social network sniffer detected this case and Mark Zuckerberg then decided to create the Best Friend award and give him the first victory.
This award, it may be a bit of a strategy by Zuckerberg, to cover the 100 million lawsuit filed against his company few weeks ago.
Changes in your Facebook status
Robert, meanwhile, is alien to these issues and was happy in the delivery of Best Friend 2016 . After receiving the award, Cake commented: “ read the words of Henry Adams, who said that a friend in life is much, two are too and three are impossible I wanted to prove that was false .”.
It is known that his Facebook status read – Will you be my friend? – And over the years, millions of friend requests even though at the time, did not get even one ordered, with the goal of having a million friends.
After receiving the prize, one million people have given the Like of their status and have accepted your request, fulfilling the dream of Robert, more than five years.
Cake recounted that during all this time, despite the setbacks, decided not to continue its efforts: “ I knew that at some point someone would prick the Yes and now look … I have a million friends” .
Other social networks
He also worked other social networks, such as Instagram , which rose 25,000 photos of selfies, skies and landscapes, but with the same result: 0 followers .
Or Twitter , which reached 550,401 people follow and write over a hundred thousand messages. Cake, retwiteaba their own tweets, from another profile imaginary friend with aphorisms about friendship and love, no one will make any case.
Google plus there was not much difference, despite trying to find the love of no less than 657,893 people and sending millions of messages in a bottle by the network, but this time not so frustrated, finding Internet browsing, nobody had friends there.
Also deployed wings Linkedin , which gave high a profile to apply for a job Community Manager at Disney, but its network finally just reached his mother and other profiles of other social networks.
After the award
In contrast to his lonely past, after receiving the award, he has not stopped receiving friend requests, hearts and faces, on all networks and from all parts of the world. In fact, it has had to hire an assistant to help you manage and respond well at all.
Robert Cake, who in his last press conference showed remarkably excited, decided to end his appearance with another aphorism: “ A true friend is someone able to touch your heart from across the world” .
