# Is "liking" a post too intimidating?

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [January 10, 2016, 2:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-liking-a-post-too-intimidating/37695 "2016-01-10T02:53:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-liking-a-post-too-intimidating/37695/14 "2016-01-10T13:47:32Z")

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> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> Reading your topic I also saw that your forum’s old equivalent of “Likes” was "Thank You"s, which will certainly leave an imprint in older user’s minds.

I like (haha) “thank you” as it focuses more on an action than a person. Similar to your suggested feature.

And with a heart icon, that also speaks more about deeper emotions. A hand making a thumbs up speaks of a gesture you give a coworker, a _team_ you work with to forward a _group’s_ goal. A heart you give to a bestie or more; something more personal for _individuals_ to share privately. This may be Facebook’s line of logic to have likes represented with a thumb-up.

Changing the heart to the thumbs up may be the only change needed to turn this behavior around. As the universe dictates that the most easiest solution is usually the most appropriate and most useful (much to my chagrin sometimes…).

This whole thing reminds me of [a very specific logical fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy).

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