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    News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    They “want” to find new ways to “collect” your money.
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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    Ugh. This will be blatantly abused by sites offering competitions / offers forcing you to 'like' stuff to win. The white noise of commercial BS on Facebook is overwhelming already.

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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    Facebook will now be a place to go shopping and have advertisements rammed down your throat? Great that's exactly what i've always wanted from social networking sites.

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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    1 Create a fake account
    2 Like everyone to get their vouchers and freebies

    That way you keep your own Facebook clean!

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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    It may call itself a social networking site, but the whole point of it is to get companies access to as many mugs (sorry - potential customers) as possible - and, of course, make money out of it. You don't think these sites are really set up purely as a social freebie do you? Like only when you have to (to enter a competition or receive an offer) , then remember to unlike later. And if people you have liked post too much crap unlike them too.

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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    With Facebook, who needs lobotomy?

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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    Quote Originally Posted by aderussell View Post
    It may call itself a social networking site, but the whole point of it is to get companies access to as many mugs (sorry - potential customers) as possible - and, of course, make money out of it. ....
    That.

    For anyone that doesn't like the commercialisation of Facebook (etc), the answer is obvious - don't use it.

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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    Quote Originally Posted by aderussell View Post
    Like only when you have to (to enter a competition or receive an offer) , then remember to unlike later. And if people you have liked post too much crap unlike them too.
    "Unlike"? It's actually called so on FB instead of "dislike"? Last I checked "unlike" meant "dissimilar". Facebook university English?

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    Re: News - Facebook and retailers “want” you to click another button

    The scope for abusing this is huge. I already spend a considerable amount of time trying to hide annoying posts from competitions etc that have managed to sneak into your timeline. :/

    I would have thought a 'dislike' button would have been in higher demand than 'want' or 'collect'.

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