A like can appear to have two very different meanings.
When someone says they are struggling with things and having a rough time, do you like that comment? Does this mean you are supporting their post, or does it mean that you like their suffering? It seems it’s all about interpretation.
So what do you generally do when someone posts about having a rough day, or sick relatives, or some similar unfortunate circumstance? Do you like or not?
I like as a signal of support usually.
It was good when we had the hour or so of different options
Like for support
I don’t know, i press like to say “you are not alone”.
I don’t usually ‘like’ a bad news post, but I’ll comment on the thread hopefully giving a bit of support.
Likes are more like a ping to me. Whether i like or agree with a post or not me liking it is just giving acknowledgement
I do this to some extent in my own threads to acknowledge that I have read their response but not so much in other peoples thread. I tend to only like comments that I actually like in others threads. Unless they are responding to me, which I, again, like to acknowledge.
Outside of the bad news thread, which I’m still unsure of sometimes.
I generally will like even bad news just to show the op that yes, I have read the post and am supporting them, especially if im too strapped for time to actually comment.
I use likes as a means of support, acknowledgement or cool 
I tend to forget to like peoples stuff so ill get a response or something then ill go back and like it up 
Hmm…you don’t seem to have liked my thread 
. I’m not cool to LevelJ1
sir level receives response and backtracks to like ops post
I don’t use like for struggling or bad news posts, but I will choose to comment and show support instead.
I don’t get offended if someone likes one of my struggling posts, but my personal choice is to avoid the like button if it’s a negative post.
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