Hypebot Readers Say New Facebook Like Button Will “Surely Backfire”
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction," wrote scientist Issac Newton. And if the comments yesterday's post about Facebook suddenly changing their Like button to mimic the Share button are any indication, Facebook has a problem. In fact, "Like" usage could actually start to decline thus driving less traffic instead of more.
Facebook's revamped button now posts all "Liked" content without warning, and most Hypebot readers think that "sucks".
"This will surely backfire. Doing this will make people think twice about liking something so that they don't spam their friends news feeds," wrote Hypebot reader Russ.
"To like something is a personal action, to share it is a social action. Not everything we 'like' is (for whatever reason) suitable or appropriate for general consumption," wrote Jude. "This seems like an oppressive action which takes away our right to choose what we share with our social network of family and friends!"
"So what? Facebook knows nobody's ever going to leave and they've made it clear from Day One that they don't care about the opinions of their users. It is a beautifully pure operation like that," concluded reader Justin Boland. "We have decades of headlines like this ahead of us, settle in and enjoy the ride into Hive Mind."
Oversaturation of ad marketing is one of the things that killed MySpace.
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Whinge whinge whinge! Oppressive action? Where do you live, Libya? Yemen?
The whole idea of social networking is to share your “likes” with friends, so they too might discover something of interest to them. They are your friends after all. Or are they?
All this talk of facebook and privacy … if you don’t like it don’t use it. Easy as.
I see both sides of the coin. As a user, my friend feed is so overloaded with “news” now that I hardly pay attention to it anymore except for glancing over the handful of people that I actually care about what is going on in their lives. As an artist, I would love the chance to gain exposure through current fans who have liked my page. Here’s the question: “If everyone is a user like me, will the new ‘Like’ policy be effective in promoting an artist or band’s page?”
oh c’mon, the only people that will have that problem are the ones who invited millions of friends
Hypocrite! Isnt your post an ad?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
It doesnt work that well on the Internet, you know? 🙂
I agree with folks who say what they did is merge two different functions. The effect will be that although they still call it LIKE people will read it as SHARE (LIKE is painless, SHARE is more visible). So we effectively lost the LIKE function. And it’s my guess Facebook did this because LIKEs outnumber SHAREs. If so I think they will be disappointed.