Low Effort Reaction

Description
The pattern occurs when a user resorts to doing interactions which takes low effort, such as pressing like on Facebook and +1 on Google+.

Examples
Alice feels she hasn't been in contact with another user in a certain time. She doesn't care that much, but still doesn't want the other person to feel she's ignoring him/her. So she does a like on the user's posts every once in a while.

Use
This pattern can be used to give users, who don't want to to get too involved, another option to interacting with the community. It can also help active users to do more interactions, as this pattern doesn't take much time. This means that this pattern can help support more activity.

Relations
This pattern can also be related to Stage Fright. It could be an effect of that pattern. When doing these easy interactions, the user is less visible, and there are much less ways to make errors.

If the Low Effort Reaction is becoming too much effort, the result might be the user Avoiding Notifications.

Contributors
Created by Andreas Bjerkeholt. Discussed with Patric Westberg.