Emcee, I agree, appreciation is much better (and technically more accurate). Love does sound a bit scary, especially like: "wow i have to say i love u so0o0o much!!!"
Sorry, I know I'm torturing these posters, but people writing stuff like that makes me crazy and I have to snark. It's not like I'm expecting everyone to be the grammar nazi that I am (I was a copy editor for both my high school yearbook and paper), but I was typing coherently online when I was only 12, back in the days of Yahoo chatrooms, where you had split seconds to reply and no preview function!
Huh, so this is what being old feels like. You darn kids, get off my lawn!
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how