Unlike?

I know this is old news, but Google has to seriously consider the whole “Like” word choice in Google Reader.

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Do I really want to tell the world I “like” that Iran may be working on a warhead?

Like is bad enough, but it gets worse when you change your mind, and Google gives you the option to “unlike” something.

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Unlike? Do we have to invent nonsensical words for things now?

How about Flagged, or Marked?

The whole need for this feature is rather dubious, anyway. I already have starring for marking articles important to me, and sharing for letting others know I think something is interesting and finding interesting articles shared by my friends. What do I care if a thousand people I don’t know liked something?

Ideally, you’ll be reading your RSS headlines long before a decent sample of people has had a chance to “like” the article or not. It seems like we’re gathering data for Google for little to nothing in return to me.