It&#x27;s a little more subtle. and subtle is the point. Human emotion, heck, all of human experience is analog. Love for a child is different than love for a parent, for example. And it&#x27;s fractally complicated. If you look at how a word, phrase or novel matches up to an emotion you&#x27;ll see the flaws where it doesn&#x27;t quite match up at every scale.<p>So, anyway, discretizing these 6 states and fast tracking them is ok, i guess. It certainly allows people to shade their like in an interesting way, but it blows away complexity. The simple like can convey more meaning, imho, based on the sender. A like from an ex-lover, for example has a different meaning than from grandma. In some sense, they&#x27;re both &quot;i&#x27;m thinking of you&quot; but they&#x27;re nuanced based on sender.<p>It&#x27;s not super clear to me that providing the 6 states will actually convey more information. Really it just requires a bit more effort on the user. A guy hits like on a pretty girl&#x27;s photo because of love or lust, same guy hits like on a fast car because of awe. The context is more than enough to infer the meaning. It does make the sympathy connection explicit, so that&#x27;s something. The sad face is probably much quicker than typing in &quot;sucks about the cancer, bro&quot;. Is optimizing that case for speed better for humans?