You may be curious about what Halka does differently than traditional social sites and how it builds more durable, lasting, accepting, and supportive relationships than they do. It's because Halka is not like the average social site. This site doesn't settle for liking a post as a genuine showing of empathy, or sharing a post as a sufficient showing of support. Halka goes a step beyond this, surpassing commonplace, as it promotes more emotionally expressive exchanges between peers. Allow me to list only a few examples of how Halka exceeds the standard established by most other social media sites, as well as where it has pioneered standards in areas of social interaction overlooked by them.

Halka helps avoid awkward conversations, because it also allows people to see what emotions members are best at empathizing with. People are able to gauge, before starting a conversation that makes them vulnerable by evoking extreme emotions, whether or not someone they are considering talking to will be helpful and sympathetic. Ergo, Halka makes opening up to others less scary, and helps people avoid telling their story multiple times on different sites in order to find advice, support, encouragement, understanding, or simple praises for an accomplishment. Halka maintains an environment in which people gain the confidence to connect with others, without fear of callous people causing more distress. People on Halka connect on a more intimate level than ever before, which leads to more genuine friendships. No other social media site places so much importance on understanding others as being vital to form relationships. Halka understands this, and promotes open and effective communication in both new and old friendships.

Halka encourages people to relate their life experiences openly, and to identify the feelings that arose as a result of its presence, such as dealing with any effects caused by the event, or just feelings about it happening at all. Unlike Halka, most social sites are used primarily for spreading opinions and relating one's activities that day, and emotional responses and motivators are rarely mentioned in connection to anything. As a result, people aren't as proficient at identifying even their own emotions, and have trouble conveying what they felt to others. Halka promotes the reconnecting of a person with their emotions on a personal level by asking people when they post an experience to identify what emotions they felt when they were dealing with the situation. Halka also encourages people to imagine how others felt during important events, by asking that people guess what emotions a post's author felt at the time they had that experience. Halka helps people recognize and express emotions again, while simultaneously demonstrating that there are millions of emotional responses, and that all of them are equally valid. In this manner Halka promotes becoming more thoughtful and considerate people.

Halka requests members share experiences using as many details as possible. These detailed emotional recollections help by reminding people that everyone has emotional responses, and by revealing emotional processes that we've either experienced for ourselves, or that we are able to imagine going through. Knowing that we feel the same emotions as others, and that we deal with them in similar ways, compels us to view other people as more relatable and familiar. Familiarity downplays the superficial differences people normally focus on, as well as trivializes misconceptions spread by ignorance and bigotry. Meaning if a person is more relatable, people more commonly forsake stereotypes that either emphasize irrelevant physical differences such as skin color, or stereotypes that seek to dehumanize certain peoples, like stating that Muslims are only capable of hate. This leaves people to use more fair and nonpartisan approaches to discovering the truth about others, including remembering all people are the same inside. When we acknowledge that we all feel hurt, pride, excitement, fear, love and other emotions in the same way it results in healthier, more informed connections between different peoples. In short, Halka encourages and rewards true empathy, which improves the social climate of the real world, because it motivates members to empathize more often, with more people, and in a greater variety of situations. In this manner Halka promotes acceptance and tolerance of others.