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Social Media & Content Creation vocabulary · Engagement and Reach

Like

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

/laɪk/nounCore term

In social media & content creation, like means: A quick sign of approval that users give a post by tapping a heart or thumbs-up icon; the total number is usually shown on the post.

In Turkish: beğeni, like

How it is used

Used as a noun (get likes, like count) and a verb (like a post). Likes are the easiest interaction, so many teams now value comments, shares and saves more. Some platforms let users hide like counts.

Example sentences

  1. The photo got 4,000 likes but only twelve comments.

  2. She liked our post, so let's send her a DM about the collab.

Common collocations

  • get likes
  • like count
  • like a post
  • hide like counts
  • likes and comments
  • engagementAll the ways people interact with your content, such as liking, commenting, sharing, saving or clicking.
  • commentA written reply that someone leaves under a post or video, which other users can usually read and answer.
  • shareTo pass your own or someone else's content on to other people, for example by sending it in a message or posting it to your story.
  • saveAn action in which a user stores a post in a private collection to look at it again later; the total number is shown as saves.

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