What is Like ? and why is it needed at all. This is exactly what we will talk about today.
The Internet is increasingly influencing our lives. Thanks to the Internet, new expressions and words are coming into use, such as: KEK, LOL, Repost, Lifehack, offtopic, Trolling, IMHO and others.
Many new words are generated by the Internet. They gradually enter our lives. The word Like was no exception. Which has already gone beyond the network and is found in everyday life.
Like - where did it come from and what does it mean?
Let's figure out what Like is. What does it mean and how did it appear? We will also try to understand how it happened that the like gained such wild popularity.
What does the word like mean in translation? Unlike, for example, the word KEK. Like has a completely normal translation from English.
Laik means to like or liked, that is, I Laik - I like , I liked .
This idea of liking appeared in 1998 and was first implemented on a social network called Surfbook. Subsequently, the developers of the social network Facebook applied this idea to their project.
Taking the word Laik as a basis, they transformed it a little and turned it into a kind of criterion for evaluating materials posted by users.
With the help of Like, you can express your attitude towards the video you watched, photos, posts, events, and sound recordings you listened to.
For example, if you liked someone’s photo, we like it. That is, we express our attitude towards this photo “I liked it” - Like.
Like has a thumbs up icon. It’s like we used to express approval in our country by showing a fist with the thumb pointing up
