Oh wow. This is amazing! If you’re like us, then your Facebook feed has never been this hot. (At least not since May 2010.) Changing our profile pics to display our political courage: 43 likes and nine comments! Instagram shots of our lunchbreaks risking life and limb down at the Silom protests: 23 likes and 2 new followers! Our comment that we are “ready to die to defend the nation against corruption” on a friend’s post: eight likes! 

We’re just worried that it could all be over too soon, that we will have to go back to posting pictures of sushi and our cat, either of which gets us three likes on a good day. And you already know those three people: they’re the ones who don’t have lives of their own, just sit in a darkened room clicking like on any old crap. Your relationship is so tenuous they stopped showing up in your feed years ago and god knows why you ever became FB friends in the first place. (In short, your family.)

But hey, not during protest season! All of a sudden, we are all one big community united in our social media revolution. (Well, one big college-educated family living in Bangkok and with a particular fondness for brunch.) For one brief moment, everyone's a celebrity, everyone tastes the thrill of actually being listened to, liked and tagged. Everyone feels they're here to change the world, one profile picture at a time.

But we're not doing it for the likes. No, we like to think we're making a real difference when we shout our opinions to people who share them. Well, yes, we have to shout: our hearing will never recover from those stupid whistles (we never thought we'd miss the clappers). That's just the kind of sacrifices we've made for the cause. Don't thank us, but if you could just go click on our latest post, that would be much appreciated.

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