It's been established many years ago that I rely on "likes" as validation of my worth as a valued member of the Allnurses.com community. As such, whenever I get a "like" notification, I go to my dashboard to see who liked what post (yeah, I told you that I have self-esteem issues).
A curious thing I've noticed is that some members will just go through and "like" every post that's on a thread they're reading. I wonder why. Are they just so enthusiastic about the subject matter that they're just all "Hell YEAH!!" to every post?
Alternatively, I will sometimes notice that a particular member will have "liked" several of my posts in several different threads on different boards within a short period of time, and I'll think, "Is Davey Do (or you know, whoever) stalking me?"
So what are you patterns and criteria for "liking" someone else's posts?
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Confession time: I'm not a habitual frequenter of fora in general, and - despite the ease of AN's layout - it took me a while to realise what the whole 'like' business was about.
And by that time... I'd posted on several threads! And not 'liked' any of the comments! What's the etiquette? Do you start 'liking' now? How does that make the people on whose threads I commented, but neglected to 'like' last week feel? Does one go back and 'like' retrospectively?
It's so face-palmingly English.
Give me a flooded cave system and a SCUBA tank and I'm in like Flynn.
Present me with the prospect of a potential breach of etiquette and suddenly I'm Hugh bloody Grant.
That's exactly the angst I experience on a daily basis. I don't want to OFFEND anyone! So I'm either faced with not liking anyone, or liking everyone out of fear that I might hurt someone's feelings. I'm sure there is a therapist out there who would love to crawl into my brain. I blame the fact that I'm the youngest sibling.
Specializes in M/S, Pulmonary, Travel, Homecare, Psych..
And who here has not liked a comment just to make the writer confused (after they make a ridiculous statement of course, arguing with you just for the sake of arguing).
klone, MSN, RN
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That's exactly the angst I experience on a daily basis. I don't want to OFFEND anyone! So I'm either faced with not liking anyone, or liking everyone out of fear that I might hurt someone's feelings. I'm sure there is a therapist out there who would love to crawl into my brain. I blame the fact that I'm the youngest sibling.