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Facebook's "Like" button has become an integral part of online life, connecting sites around the web back to the social network, helping people send quick signals to their friends — and filling up Facebook’s databases with valuable information about the activities and preference of its users, whether or not those users happen to be aware of that fact.
But the "Like" button is pretty simplistic. It’s a binary measurement of a multifaceted world. Facebook knows this, and it has been working with third-party services and applications to add new verbs to the mix as part of an expansion of its "Open Graph" initiative.
It started a while back, most noticeably through the integration of apps such as music service Spotify into Facebook — showing Facebook users what their friends are listening to at any given moment, for example. Other examples include the ability for Facebook users to indicate that they’re watching a particular show or cooking a particular dish.
Now, a new wave of Facebook apps is taking it to a whole new level.
Case in point: Wetpaint Entertainment, a television fan site that is integrating with the Facebook Timeline to let people click to say LOVE!, BOO!, TMI, HOT!, OMG, EWW!, LOL!, or MEH, in the same way that they’ve said "Like" in the past. The site, operated by Seattle-based startup Wetpaint, rolled out the new buttons today.
When someone clicks on one of the new buttons, it shows up in their Facebook Timeline, visible to their friends, just as with the Like button. I’ve been testing the buttons out this morning, which explains why my Facebook friends have seen me "OMG!" Shannon Magrane’s audition on American Idol, among other things. (Seriously, I can’t believe Steven Tyler said that to her dad.)
Here's my question: Is this too much? I can understand moving beyond the "Like" button, but it seems from the outside that Facebook has essentially given free rein to third-party developers to come up with any verb that they want. With all these new variations, it feels like the pure power of the “Like” is at risk of being diluted.
Then again, maybe I’m too much of a Facebook traditionalist.
Until we get on board with the new buttons, you'll have to let us know whether you LOVE, BOO, or MEH this new trend manually, in the comments.
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too many options
Leave it to Facebook to turn something as simple as a like button in to a quagmire.
Meh
A Christian would have to be mindlessly insane to use Facebook.
Given the likely worldviews of the founders/owners of Facebook, all four of them self-identified as anti-Christs, it is difficult to imagine a more dangerous and more hostile database for a Christian to use as a depository for the most personal, private information as their likes, dislikes, and activities.
The owners of Facebook are amassing the world's most sophisticated personal information database in history.
Can you say "Big Brother?"
An intelligence agency or secret police force would have to spend tens of millions of dollars, possibly billions of dollars to amass a database of personal dossiers on nearly every person in the world, yet Facebook is getting this information for free, and the targets of the surveillance are providing all the information voluntarily, even enthusiastically.
Who took control of the Soviet Union after Stalin died? Who after Kruschev became a non-person? Same answer. Who has the most power in any country, in any society? Same answer: those who have the most information about the private lives of others.
Facebook, for the ordinary common citizens of the countries of this world, dwarfs the dossier capablities of the Nazi SS, the Stalinist KGB, the CIA, and the Mossad all put together, and the irony is, their intelligence-gathering efforts cost them nothing. The dupes are lining up to voluntarily spill their most cherished secrets and personal information.
Have you all lost your minds, Christians?
Would you trust the devil to keep your private thoughts private? Don't you realize that the owners of Facebook, can pull up things you didn't even know about yourself at the touch of a button? And all because you gave them all the information in the first place to enable them to do that.
You think they can be trusted with your private thoughts? Would you trust the devil to respect your private thoughts and not use them to your disadvantage? Would you trust Lucifer to treat your private information--your personal dossier--with respect, and not use it to take any advantage of you? Do you seriously think that there are any laws on this planet that would prevent this information that you have so williingly provided from being used to label you an enemy of the state, a person quilty of crimes agains humanity simply for being a Christian?
What is the likelihood that each of the four founders of facebook is hostile to the views of a Christian? Can you say "unity," "one-hundred-point-zero-zero-percent," "absolutely certain"? Can you say "having a moral and philosophical viewpoint that is one-hundred-and-eighty degrees the polar opposite of a Christian's world view"?
And yet you will trust these four men to amass the world's most detailed dossier database by giving them everything that is in your heart and head? Fellow Christian, with all due respect, you have got to be completely out of your mind.
Am I worried that some anti-Christ is going to flag this comment as bigoted? That a flock of bitter, angry accusers are going to descend on it to label it as intolerant, or to condemn it as being false or hateful or just over-the-top too CHRISTIAN a way of thinking to be allowed in a public discussion? Am I concerned that this post will become so controversial that legions of anti-Christs are going to draw attention to it and revile it and say all manner of evil against it, telling everyone they can grab by the ear that my post is to be hated and despised for pointing these things out? Should I be?
No. I pray for that. I do sincerely hope that the enemies of the cross of Jesus Christ make such a noise over this that it comes to everyone's attention.
Christian, you have to be completely out of your minds to be using Facebook. This repository of personal information is owned by those you cannot trust to have your best interests in mind. And this is putting the plain truth of this matter very, very gently.
Wake up, you stupid people! Are you all so completely crazy!
No thinking Christian would go within twenty miles of Facebook, no, not to so much as touch it with a long wooden pole if they truly understood the core beliefs of those who OWN AND CONTROL ALL THE INFORMATION THAT YOU POST THERE, those whose beliefs are anathema to the cause of Jesus Christ.
Look at the founders of Facebook. Look closely. Find out what they believe.
And then run hard and fast in the other direcion
if you value your freedom to think and believe as you do, Christian.
Or go on telling the devil your deepest personal secrets and find out what is done with them as this world matures into its fiinal days.
Use your heads, people. Forget the distracting noise, Christian, think with your conscience and your loyalty to Christ.
Let the firestorm of controversy this post generates give you a clue.
"like" or "boo" is all we need. the rest isn't necessary.
John-3078515, Are you on drugs dude ? you repeated yourself over and over and over,very typical meth behaviour. I'm just sayin'...
I was going to go with paranoid schizophrenic, but yeah, meth makes sense too.
A christian can use facebook for good reasons!! I know plenty of pastors and churches that have facebook pages, i really dont see the problem...
kisldb,
You're not using your head.
Perhaps you're naive about how much a linguist with the computer skills of a scientist can learn about you from the things you write.
Perhaps you're naive about how the powerful rulers of this world use information about individual human beings.
Perhaps you hear the word "blackmail" and think it could never happen to you, being so innocent and so pure.
Perhaps you're not seeing the secret police interrogation that paralyzes the target by knowing too much about what that person is thinking, who their friends are, where they have been, what they had for breakfast, what they said in private last week after the movie, . . .
A while back there was a firestorm about Apple saving the cell tower data that identified a person's travels on their iPhones. This is a hundred times worse.
You clearly don't see the connection between massive high speed data processing and a database of personal information containing the private thoughts of a large segment of human society and the danger to religious freedom this represents with a database of billions of words of human dialog and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of the speakers being in the hands of those who have a visceral hatred of Jesus Christ.
Your privacy and anonymity are two of your most precious God-given gifts. Those who use Facebook are squandering those gifts with profligacy by pouring their private lives into the hands of anti-Christs. If you can't see the danger of that, then you have little appreciation for our Lord's warning that we need to be cautious as snakes as well as gentle as lambs.
You give the wicked too much credit for an innocence they do not have. The Bible tells you that the wicked man plots against the just and seeks to slay him, but you do not take that seriously. You don't really believe God, even if you have convinced yourself that you believe IN God. You don't see the anti-Christs in almost total control of the exchange of information in this world, or if you see it, you're too intimidated to "notice" it or to mention it for fear of being labeled a bigot.
You may be innocent and simple with respect to evil and "the deep secrets of Satan" as the scripture says, but they are not.
You assume too much, and practice a foolish kind of generosity when you give an anti-Christ the benefit of the doubt as though they were as benevolent as you could wish men to be.
Perhaps you don't know anything about the four men who founded Facebook and who own that information and can override all the so-called "privacy" settings that they have the keys to. Perhaps, that is, you have absolutely no information whatsoever about who you are revealing yourself to, and what their agenda is.
"They will beat you in their synagogues and drag you before the judges, and of you they will cause to be put to death. They will do all these things because they have not known Me or my Father." "Fathers will hand sons over to be put to death, and sons will betray fathers. A man's worst enemies will be those of his own household." "If they hated me, they will hate you. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you." "No man is greater than his teacher." " Unless you pick up your cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple."
Perhaps you do not really know what a Christian is because you have never taken Jesus Christ's words seriously.
In which case your naive gullibility is deeper than you could ever imagine, and your time of trouble much nearer than you ever dreamed. Or perhaps you are a Christian in name only, and when you finally see the wolf coming, you will flee and betray those who have trusted you.
"They shall be in pain as a woman in travail."
You aren't thinking about anything more than church picnics yet.
You aren't even thinking yet.
John-3078515,
1. You do not make cogent arguments, you simply rant.
2. Big Brother? Who is more of a "big brother" than organized religion?
3. Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. Do you believe that you are the only person who TRULY gets "it?" They have a word for that. No... they have a diagnosis for that. Seek help. You are not a perfect and unique snowflake.
Speaking of "OMG", is there not a character max on this shiz???
SSP,
1. You do not make cogent arguments, you just sneer and contradict.
2. Who is more of a Big Brother than those whose instinct is to start contradicting whenever they hear the Word of God?
3. YOU're telliing ME not to judge??? !!
Had I actually judged anyone that might make sense. I simply said that certain men were self-admitted anti-Christs and that certain other Christian someones were not thinking clearly about that fact and the power over themselves that they were foolishly freely giving to these self-admitted enemies of the cross of Jesus Christ.
Had you not judged me to be psychologically ill for simply reporting these spiritual truths (indeed, for daring to mention God in public, if the truth be told)-- had you not falsely accused me of claiming a perfection that is nowhere to be seen in my words, that might not be so hypocritical.
Just who do you think you are to quote God's Words merely to condemn God's Words and those who reverence them?
"But unto the wicked, God says: 'What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my testament into your mouth? Seeing you hate instruction and cast my words behind you. When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother, you slander your own mother's son. These things have you done and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself. But I will reprove you and set them in order before your eyes. Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver. Whoso offers praise, glorifies me: and to him that orders his conversation aright, will I show the salvation of God.'"
Let's see if I've got this correct: You so hate religion that you use God's Word to slander God's Word as incoherent and to condemn one who's praise is simply of God's Word and who made no mention of any organized corporate body of human creation, and the second thought that comes into your mind is to express your outrage at ORGANIZED religion (oblivious to this non sequitur) by attacking an individual for his drawing everyone's attention to God's Word only?
And then you quote God's Word to equate reverence for the Word of God with emotional and psychological ILLNESS? Where did you get the notion that I think I'm the only person who 'gets' it? From what other source than your own delusions did you pluck the conviction that I consider myself perfect? Because I seek to remind people that it's time to return from the Great Apostasy? Such a purpose means necessarily that I think I am perfect? Only in your own fantasies, man.
What do you know of judgment? On what basis do you expect anyone to take you seriously? Because you hear the name of Jesus Christ and your knee-jerk reaction to that is to spew slander and false accusation and call for a psychiatrist?
I judge no one. If a man says that he does not believe in God, then he is a self-professed anti-Christ.
If you have a problem with that, then only you have the problem with that.
I can stand before God without fear or shame for anything I have said here. I have nothing to retract here.
Your sneering call for psychiatric help is only a flaming arrow from your own point of view and that of those who share your disrespect for the Word of God.
It's water off a duck's back to me.
Why is it that you knee-jerk God haters are always so quick to falsely assume that anyone who exhorts Christians to remember their calling is necessarily claiming perfection? Why is "You're not perfect!" always your first taunt?
You think we don't know that? How could you? All the world knows that we preach the gospel of repentance for the forgiveness of sin.
I pray you pull your head out of the muck soon before that backside of yours presents just too tempting a target to be ignored any longer by that demon that has your name and his written on his branding iron.
Where in my text did you read that I hate God? I commented on organized religion.
I wasn't judging you (then), I was pointing out that according to your own dogma, you shouldn't judge anyone.
Congratulations on believing in God. Good for you, but your commentary is so threatening and hateful that I think you must surely misunderstand the "loving God" you profess to "glorify and praise." In what way does your hope for my suffering glorify and praise God?
NOW, I judge you ... based on what I have read.... You're a fanatic and a troll and you're welcome to the perverted version of faith and religion you have created/adopted. My judgement stops with your defective personality, however, and not your worthiness of God's love, eternal life or any other spiritual goal you may have.
This is more like judging a book, not by it's cover, but by the lunacy contained in the very first chapters.
Simply, you're a weirdo.
just add a dislike button only
Can we compromise and add a "And we care, why?" button too?
I'd be happy with like or dislike. maybe a boo.
I pretty much have no interest in facebook anymore. I use it to keep in contact with my relatives who live far away, and that's it. Why does everyone feel the need to make things complicated? It's a status update. If you want to do more than give it a thumbs up, you're more than welcome to comment on it.
I use that old fashioned invention called a telephone to keep in touch with relatives who live far away. I suggest you give it a try. You may like it.
KeithStone, typing out on the compouter allows our thoughts and ideas to be better articulated and more thought out... it's advantageous over telephone communication for those reasons... but it's not as personal, I agree.
Facebook? Is that thing still around?
Haha, it's only a matter of time till most people will say the same thing. I can't wait.
Not a FB-I user if i can't post on a site without FB-I i don't post .
Facebook, Schmasebook. Would your "friends" help you move, paint your house, or hide bodies? Probably not.
Yes, yes, and maybe, depends on whose it is. :P
Yes, yes, and most likely. I'm only friends on FB with people who are in my real (as in not online) life.
Actually when I had to move yes my "friends" helped. Even high school buddies I hadn't seen in nearly 20 years saved up boxes at work for me, loaned me a truck and much more. The year before when I had to evacuate with a pet from a fire a "friend" I hadn't seen face to face in over 15 years gave me his couch. Its amazing that if you pick nice people back then, they remain that way when you get in touch with them years later.
I am far too aloof to use Facebook, because I don't have any interesting friends. Watch, now, as I belittle the rest of the world for enjoying something.
I think "Like", "Love" and "Dislike" would be appropriate.
OMG, TMI, MEH.... are we all 13 year olds???
If you are going to have LIKE & LOVE then to keep it fair you should also have DISLIKE & HATE.
Where is the suck my junk button???
Yes, we are all 13 year olds again. Doesn't it feel great? Does the TMI mean too much information? I'm 19 still and I can't stand teenagers anymore. This is obviously picked up from the new trends in high schools. I say stick with Like and add Dislike. I mostly ignore things I don't "like" but I guess if it has to get complicated, add in a dislike.
I'll never be on Facebook (a world for a narcissist) or Twitter.
Such a waste of time.
yet you will take time talking @!$%# about FB? lol your an idiot
I've moved around a lot because of my job, so most of my family and closest, life-long friends don't live in the same city, same state, and in a few cases, the same country. I'm very grateful that I've had Facebook to compensate where emails and webcams lack in communication options.
I'm also grateful that I'm not the kind of person who sumarily dismisses people and things they have no knowledge of or interest in.
Ethan...
I just like to keep up on the news.
P.S. An idiot is someone who uses incorrect spelling. It should be you're (short for you are), not your. Read your post.
Facebook sucks....
Just like and dislike. Also get people to use a simple S at the end of a post to mark it as sarcasm.
I wonder if FB has avoided the "dislike" and "thumbs down" because people could confuse the "rating" of one of those as they dislike the actual comment. For example, the status update is "It's so cold today!" By clicking the "dislike" button, is a friend dissing my update or saying "boo to cold weather"? I can see how it could create confusion and get people fighting over stupid things (like a status update).
@ chelty, i can see your point. however i have already seen about 9million fights on fb over miscommunication and misunderstanding or just sheer ignorance and/or stupidity without the dislike button so i say add it. lol
You mean "Twofacebook".
Way to aspire upward Facebook!! Steal lame ideas from dinosaur sites like MSN.
Well.....I guess this is a little more expressive than just "Like", but would someone tell me what MEH means?? We will see how everyone likes it!
What comes to mind when you say "meh" out loud? Yep, that's pretty much what it means :-D
meh= Indifference; to be used when one simply does not care.
They'll listen to us about the stupid things like "like" buttons, but not about how craptastic the new layout is that decides for you what you need to know. Yes, Facebook. the birth of my friend's son was an "important" story, even though you didn't think it was worth posting on my newsfeed. I have enjoyed Facebook but when something you enjoy doing for fun becomes too much work to maintain, i.e. creating groups or going through all your friends to subscribe to their feeds - just so that you can see everyone's posts - well, I'll get around to that in February. I'm mainly just using it for the Event options, email and to post photos.
MEH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really hate seeing this "meh" in a text message or a comment; makes me feel like all of the thoughts I had just expressed mean nothing at all.
:)
I still don't get what "meh" means. Can someone explain it in idiot terms?
"Meh" means you are indifferent - your feeling is one of mundane lack of enthusiasm. Kind of like "ho-hum". Someone asks you how your lunch was, and it wasn't bad, but wasn't all that great, you say "meh". Get it?
I usually define meh as "whatever", "so-so" or "don't care".
I don't click on any FB buttons but I'd click on a Phuck Off button if there was one.
The definition of MEH is "Indifference, equivalent to shoulder shrug
all we need is a dislike button
Dislike button would be good.
Is it finally going to get that "Who gives a flying fcuk button" ?
NO DISLIKE BUTTON. That opens the door to BULLYING and HARASSMENT. NONONONO. Seriously, every time I hear someone say, "OMG gimme a dislike button already!" I think, "Oh dear, are you really that ignorant to ignore the fact that it can turn into bullying?"
So a dislike button is BAD.
um there is already plenty or bullying, fighting and drama on fb i just dont see a dislike button as creating THAT much more turmoil than there already is.
Acutally I was thinking of a dislike button for when someone posts they are sick, their car broke down, the weather is bad, etc. I suppose it could be used for bullying but it's like anything else-when used correctly it's not an issue.
DISLIKE
My aren't WE miss politically correct?
Come on now. Its a simple dislike button and that leads to bullying?
facebook why u no have bromance status
Camila gisselle lopez, GROW UP.