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

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They “want” to find new ways to “collect” your money.

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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.

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.

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

That way you keep your own Facebook clean!

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.

With Facebook, who needs lobotomy?

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Originally Posted by aderussell

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. ....

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That.

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

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Originally Posted by aderussell

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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"Unlike"? It's actually called so on FB instead of "dislike"? Last I checked "unlike" meant "dissimilar". Facebook university English? :D

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'.