Liking on the internet is rarely an unqualified act. In language the word can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection or quotative. There is plenty of stuff that I have come across while surfing and given the option kind of liked, sort of liked or liked a lot. There is a lot of stuff that I have liked and loved, more that I have liked ambivalently and some that I have liked reciprocally or even by way of remembering. Online it has an equally flexible range. There is nuance to the way I click a heart and refinement to the way I give a thumbs up. Not until the heart is pressure sensitive and varies in shade from deep crimson to pale pink or the thumbs up judge my handshake firm or limp can you really know. Until then social media remains the Valley Girl of the web.
The feelings I bury when I like immaterially
Liking on the internet is rarely an unqualified act. In language the word can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection or quotative. There is plenty of stuff that I have come across while surfing and given the option kind of liked, sort of liked or liked a lot. There is a lot of stuff that I have liked and loved, more that I have liked ambivalently and some that I have liked reciprocally or even by way of remembering. Online it has an equally flexible range. There is nuance to the way I click a heart and refinement to the way I give a thumbs up. Not until the heart is pressure sensitive and varies in shade from deep crimson to pale pink or the thumbs up judge my handshake firm or limp can you really know. Until then social media remains the Valley Girl of the web.