"星を投げ合う" in the context of the Internet


The link is down right now for non-Japanese users, but the song [Social
Network(そーしゃるねっとわーく)](http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25327660) has these
lyrics in it:

> 好きな時に電源を入れて 誰かの文字列を覗き込む
>
> 星を投げ合うだけくらいが心地良い 僕のもうひとつの “部屋” 秘密の場所

It's pretty obvious what they're talking about for the most part, but "星を投げ合う"
confuses me. I do know that this song was published back when "likes" on
Twitter were represented by stars, so I was thinking maybe that has something
to do with it.

Does anybody know if likes were ever referred to as "星," or am I on the wrong
track?




Yes, back in the days favorites on twitter was referred to as 星. This blog
post -- [「いいね」のサムズアップ感をTwitterに持ち込むということ -
うらがみらいぶらり](http://wasasula.hatenablog.com/entry/2015/11/04/235918) -- writes
up the author's sentiments on the change to :hearts:. It reads:

> だが少なくとも「ふぁぼ」と呼び、「ふぁぼれよ」ということばが通じ、星を投げ合うような文化圏は、やはり世界全体で見れば少数派には違いない。

"ふぁぼ-る" as a verb was also commonly used when the function was called
favorites rather than likes, and formed a kind of culture.

「いいね」, you mentioned, is a newer term introduced when Twitter took our stars
away and started calling them "like"s.

