# Using Discourse as a social media platform **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-social-media-platform/202133 **Category:** Community Building **Created:** [August 30, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-social-media-platform/202133 "2021-08-30T16:16:29Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 58
### Author: ![anon73664359](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6de8d8/32.png) [@anon73664359](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon73664359) #### Post date: [September 27, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-social-media-platform/202133/58 "2021-09-27T22:29:42Z")
Font Awesome’s has a request for it by… well… me! 😄 [https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/18208](https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/18208) Upvote it if you want to see it happen! I provided an admittedly overdramatic explanation as to why I think the meaning of +1 is better than “like” or even “heart” for that matter (sorry, Jeff! 😉). > If a user were to interact with this icon, it could be used to convey a generally positive emotion instead of a single emotion that a thumbs up (like) button and a heart (love) button are ultimately limited to. “+1” can mean many different things, which is why I think it has an advantage over the traditional like/love buttons and should be implemented as an icon into Font Awesome. It is so simple, yet so powerful at the same time. [Actually, could it be done through a theme component? 🤔](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-the-like-icon-to/87748) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-social-media-platform/202133)._