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I'm confused. The article apparently thinks that it's fine to favorite something you don't actually think is your favorite, contra twitter. But then why not hea

• lotyrin 11y ago
  The meaning of "Favorite" with a star icon has long been diluted by many apps to the degree of simply representing bookmarking for later use and not have any strong connotations of promotion or endorsement.
• Mz 11y ago
  People can -- and do -- use "favorites" (or "likes" or "upvotes") for all kinds of reasons in all kinds of environments and there is no stopping that. (I sometimes use them as "read receipts" because I am excessively social and this causes me serious problems online. Faving something tells the person who wrote it that I saw it without me having to actually talk to them. This reconciles my need to communicate with my need to reduce the degree to which my chattiness routinely used to make me the center of some shitshow for reasons beyond my ability to fathom.)
• untog 11y ago
  When you add your online banking site to your browser favourites is it really because it's your favorite site on the internet?
  • npizzolato 11y ago
    When I favorite my banking website, a notification isn't sent to the website telling them I favorited them, nor are my browser favorites public for anyone to see. The semantics, and thus the meaning, are totally different. Chrome doesn't even use the term favorites. It uses the (more accurate, imo) term bookmarks.