UX musing. 

I feel like I'm pretty "old fashioned" about likes/favs on social networks, as I treat them like "good posts I'm bookmarking for later review". I treat network post faving like I do art site faving - it's something special.

By comparison, it feels like a lot of other people fav almost *everything*, encouraged by things like Youtube treating likes more like a meaningless quality meter for the creator, rather than an archive of high-quality content for the viewer.

UX musing. 

To follow: Awoo now seems to have a separate "bookmark" function to "favourite", which I think is indictive of this shift in mentality about how favourites are treated.

Never mind the murmurs of The Birdsite implementing its own bookmark feature, because likes are now engagement/promotion tools.

UX musing. 

@Taylor I fav a lot of stuff personally, but then I also normally treat it as "press this to show appreciation, particularly if you don't have anything good to reply with"

UX musing. 

@Thaminga @Taylor I also treat it this way. I don't always have the easiest time wording my appreciation for a thing, but I don't want to ignore things either so I do this as a middle ground.

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