No, not here too!

[erychan86]

No LJ... WHY?

I don't know if you guys noticed but, LJ now gives you the option to leave a heart to an entry... You all know what it means... People will stop comment and just heart entries! I really don't like this because I like to have conversations with my friendlist, and I hope I'm not the only one feeling disappointed by this new addition!

I really don't understand the need for it! I understand it in socials like instagram, because you're saying you're liking that photo, but what about here? It doesn't make any sense... Here a post about my day and its ups and downs... heart... What does it mean? LJ is a place where we use words to espress ourselves and create a dialogue with other people... These hearts are not lovely, are a way to say "I read it, I'm not taking the time to write a comment, I have to do something else". This is very upsetting to me!

I wil heart entries, if there is something to heart (like a photo post or a video post) but I will always comment, because this is why I am here, to create a dialogue and get to know people! Basically hearts don't get us closer... They keep us apart!

This is how I feel about it.

P.S. I'm on my lady days so I feel pretty strong about a lot of things xD

Comments

[theemdash]

I'm fairly certain I'll be ignoring that heart 99.9% of the time. I can think of some good reasons to use—depressed days being one—but, yeah, I'm on LJ to have meaningful communication with people. I think the loss of old LJ culture has made people forget that a small comment means more than a click.

[erychan86.livejournal.com]

Exactly! There might be a photo/video post you might like but still I'd rather accompany that heart with a comment... To me a heart with no comment means "I passed by, I didn't have time to read, here let me put a like on it so I can move on"

Luckily the majority of the people who's on LJ it's here for the dialogue and not to get more clicks and become popular...

[theemdash]

OMG, if people are on LJ to get popular, they are definitely in the wrong place these days.

[erychan86.livejournal.com]

LOL! It might be a strategy for LJ to get more users... Adding the feature so people can post here too! IDK