If, say, you decide to try out the funky new feature and 'like' something on your 'news' feed, you thereafter have the option (should you decide, upon reflection, that your initial enthusiasm for your friend's witty status update/new relationship with Joe Bloggs/attendance at a party was misplaced) to 'unlike' something.
Retraction of 'liking' isn't quite the same as 'disliking', so a new prefix was justified, I suppose. And 'delike' looks funny....
The whole "liking" thing already seemed unnecessary, so I guess this shouldn't surprise me. Although, the reasoning behind the word "unlike" makes sense to me- have I been in China that long?
It does seem somewhat unnecessary - sort of like advertising the fact that you are interested in this person's life, but not quite enough to, y'know, actually express it in words.
Then again, Facebook is primarily a vehicle for advertising the fact that you are quite interested in people's lives but not enough to actually communicate meaningfully with them, so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.
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What was the sentence with "unlike"?
If, say, you decide to try out the funky new feature and 'like' something on your 'news' feed, you thereafter have the option (should you decide, upon reflection, that your initial enthusiasm for your friend's witty status update/new relationship with Joe Bloggs/attendance at a party was misplaced) to 'unlike' something.
Retraction of 'liking' isn't quite the same as 'disliking', so a new prefix was justified, I suppose. And 'delike' looks funny....
*wanders off in a daze*
The whole "liking" thing already seemed unnecessary, so I guess this shouldn't surprise me. Although, the reasoning behind the word "unlike" makes sense to me- have I been in China that long?
It does seem somewhat unnecessary - sort of like advertising the fact that you are interested in this person's life, but not quite enough to, y'know, actually express it in words.
Then again, Facebook is primarily a vehicle for advertising the fact that you are quite interested in people's lives but not enough to actually communicate meaningfully with them, so perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.
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