The \u201clike\u201d is the predominant gesture on social media, whether you\u2019re sticking to Facebook or shifting to Instagram. It may even be the most common gesture among humans nowadays. Some of us probably \u201clike\u201d content from our online friends more often than we communicate with them in real life.<\/p>\n
Depending on the context, a \u201clike\u201d may indicate sympathy, respect, encouragement, acknowledgement or recognition, all of which have a positive or at least neutral connotation. But while it is often immediately clear how a \u201clike\u201d is to be interpreted, at other times it is utterly obscure.<\/p>\n