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The New Facebook Like Button: DISLIKE

Posted By: C.J. Arabia on 03.02.11

Let's take a moment to talk about something other than Charlie Sheen. Let's talk about Facebook!

You know that innocent little "Like" button - you click it and a small blurb will pop up on your feed letting your friend's know you Liked something.

But Facebook is going to change all that.

It's kind of complicated but basically what's happening is that Facebook is merging all of the "Share" button's functionality into the "Like" button.

When you "Like" something it's going to post a full preview to your profile and insert it into all of your friend's feeds. It's a little weird. I mean, just because I "Like" something doesn't mean that I want to share it with all of my friends. I might "Like" a photo that a friend posts, doesn't mean I want to share it with everyone I'm linked to on Facebook.

Also, I might find a story about Prostate Cancer very interesting and want to share it with all of my friends... but I don't want to click that I "Like" it to do so. That seems pretty creepy.

Ultimately it's not really THAT big of a deal. You can always go into your feed and delete any posts that you don't want to share with your friends.

So why are they doing this? Money.

They don't want you to just "Like" something, they want you to share it with all of your friends and encourage them to all visit and "Like" their page, or article, or album, or celebrity, or rockstar, or whatever as well. This makes marketers happy and ultimately means more money for Facebook.

There will still be a "Share" button but Facebook would rather you click the "Like" button as a way to tell all your friends what you think is cool.

People are obsessed with the "Like" button. Soon we'll be able to "Like" that someone clicked "Like" on someone's "Like."

What do you think about the new Facebook "Like" button. Do you "Like" it? Tell us in the comments below.

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46 weeks ago

@smoshisawsom http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7UpAAx43iM/SuB1sQngaEI/ AAAAAAAAADI/0mDEI62SUD0/s320/fergie.jpg she isn't topless :P

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61 weeks ago

i like this picture. HEY EVERYONE! CHECK OUT THIS PIC I FOUND! yeah i don't like the new like button.

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64 weeks ago

The new like button? It sucks. I went and liked like 40 funny pictures, and I'm sure it raped my friend's newsfeeds. That sucks.

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64 weeks ago

you wana really know what i think.......
ITS FIRE-TRUCKING SCREWED UP ......
thats what i think :)

kacyh7

64 weeks ago

this is a bad idea.. i like A LOT of candy... my friends are gunna kill me :o

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64 weeks ago

I WANT THE LINK TO THAT TOPLESS FERGIE PIC I HAE A EPIC BONER JUST THINKING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!

mhisz.Rainiie

64 weeks ago

I'm ashamed of my self to say this...but YES! I'm a facebook liker, it kinda started last year when I only liked Eminem, iPods, Linkin Park and Good Charlotte...but then I saw that one of my friends h

Magalink

64 weeks ago

I think it's bullcandy and I won't believe it until I see it!
What they should add is a freaking DISLIKE button.
To the little person who wrote before me:
HA! If you're 11 what the firetruck are you doin

brandon ferreira

64 weeks ago

all we wanted was a god damn dislike button!!!!

Magalink

64 weeks ago

Baerenbunt

64 weeks ago

@rmxpokeman: you can alrady get the dislike-button if you use Firefox, they have an add-on for that :)

chocoholic1

64 weeks ago

Ha! I'm not on facebook!! I'm 11!

Daviticus

64 weeks ago

Ugh, so true! I hate it when things change, change is scary! And you know they don't need the money because Facebook totally doesn't need a lot of money to keep running! [SARCASM]

brae19

64 weeks ago

facebook just needs to stop changeing everything. i like the way it used to be three years ago

rmxpokeman

64 weeks ago

When will they put a dislike button? I wanna see how many dislikes lady caca and bustin jieber get. Maybe it will balance out their alleged "fame"

rmxpokeman

64 weeks ago

Facebook had to change "become a fan" to "like" because "becoming a fan" is too much of a commitment. And of course, it was for a similar reason as now, FOR MONEY. Dicks.