Comments | paperclippy: the problem with facebook's "like" feature...

paperclippy

the problem with facebook's "like" feature...

Apr 09, 2009 16:24

...is that you get stuff like this:

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wtf

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martian687 April 9 2009, 20:58:19 UTC

I think the reason there's no "dislike" is to prevent "mean" behavior, except stuff like this can happen:

"Jennifer Jones is sad because her mom died" - 2 people like this
"Bob and Mary are no longer listed in a relationship" - 8 people like this
"Dave Smith lost his job" - 3 people like this

kushali April 9 2009, 21:49:41 UTC

CNN.com had a 'watch' link on headlines for a while that linked to the video.

I lead to crazy things like '5 boy scouts electrocuted. watch'. I have a screen shot of that somewhere.

omega697 April 9 2009, 21:57:45 UTC

I had the same thoughts when I saw something similar about pirates taking a captain hostage. :o/

jeffspender April 10 2009, 07:54:47 UTC

This reminds me of the specialness that is certain Google AdSense results... I think the worst of those was when I was looking at a page on concussions at the Mayo Clinic website. Actually, it looks like the same sorts of ads are still coming up:

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