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u24
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There is no like button.
The realisation hits me with a jolt. Scanning through a blathe, I chance upon some words that resonate with me. But there is no like button. Mental swerve. What am I supposed to do now? Do I just smile and move_on? Write a comment explaining that I liked your words? I'm stuck without a prompt to guide me. It's a peculiar feeling. I've been trained to click click click like upvote downvote report reply save share. Record my reaction and move on. I've been trained to respond yes_or_no on_or_off.
What is it like, in this world without like?
Now it's just words again. I can think about them. It doesn't matter that they were written 12 years ago. It doesn't matter if this blathe gets no likes. It won't. There is no like button. When I write, I'm writing because for no other reason that that I_have_words.
I like it for the same reason that I disabled analytics on my blog. What matter is genuine response, not points, karma, hits or likes. Even if the response doesn't track back to the original author. What matters is that the words make a difference. It matters less that you're told when someone likes it.
I don't know. It's very different. Does it fundamentally change things?
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epitome of incomprehensibility
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Personal response: lack of a like button can make appreciation more sincere but also more indiscernible. In order to let you know I appreciate this, I have to say, "User24, I liked what you just wrote" or something. But sometimes, when I read writing on blather, I prefer to appreciate it silence. Sometimes I feel like I'll dilute another voices by adding my own. Sometimes I think I won't be able to do the topic justice. Sometimes I'm just lazy. In those cases, the writer, IF they come across the blathe again, won't know that I read it and appreciated it. So - not better or worse, but different.
Impersonal response:
There is no like button.
There is no, like button.
There is no, like, button.
(I find prose personal and poetry impersonal. Am I hopelessly backwards or avant-garde? I'll take the third option again. Apply off-topically to skin.)
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"another voices" indeed - sometimes I'd like an edit button :)
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but there is dot
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dafremen
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see also:
the_unfortunate_but_timely_death_of_john_chotia
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unhinged
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thank_god
put the facebook down johnny
just put the facebook down
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blather_is_sincere
suncerity, my auto correct tells me sincerity should be spelled suncerity, makes sense.
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flowerock
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facebook, worse than television. I use both though. there are worse things to abuse, but which would you choose if you had to choose?
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death_by_brainwashing?
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Bespeckled
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This hit me yesterday when I visited blather for the first time in over a year.
My first impulse upon reading a blathe wad to like it. But no button!
Then I realized what the modern internet has doneto the wiring of my brain and made me breathe a sigh of relief that the folks at newdream/Dreamhost (the blather_gods as it were) have deigned to let blather live on, unchanged by trends. It simply is and with it I can again simply be.
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Bespeckled
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Apologies for the typos. This was my second blathe typed on a smart phone. How fitting.
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flowerock
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I would compare the "." (marking dot) on some blathes to a like button. it means you wanted to remember it and being it to the surface but had nothing to add, or so i think.
smart phones cause me typos too : /
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I would compare the "." (marking dot) on some blathes to a like button. it means you wanted to remember it and being it to the surface but had nothing to add, or so i think.
smart phones cause me typos too : /
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the month oh the day
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I love you guys.
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