I appreciate the fiction of George Orwell but the concept that we'll be reducing our language down to a few words is just silly.

In all reality - the Like button has taken on communicatory act that can sometimes shut down a temporary conversation - a fresh social act that has very little precedent due to how many different, diverse conversations we have on a daily basis due to the internet. The necessity some sort of nod to the validity of a comment without having to fully commit to a conversation is just what the internet needed at the time. Anyway. I could go on but I'm going to stop