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UT-Dallas Professor Adds 'Enemies' Feature To Facebook
An anonymous reader writes "Many people have called for a 'dislike' button on Facebook, but the service has not allowed it. A professor's app lets users add 'enemies,' in what he says is critique of the service's advertiser-friendly niceness. Will Zuckerberg let the app stand or ban it?"
Amything that circumvents FB choices will be banned. Or integrated.
So, in the end, that app will die for sure.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
In reality most of those accounts are ignored for the most part. Circles of family and friends tend to cull dormat deadwood from active use. I don't friend random strangers, but family and close friends.
The truth shall set you free!
Dear user, did you know that your sworn enemy Frin44 really hates Farmville? Would you like to add him to your Farmville notification list?
Was just thinking that. Disliking something doesn't fit into the doubleplusgood world where everyone is liked and everyone's a winner. See, mom, everyone likes what I do, I got $somerandomnumber people liking what I do!
Being able to dislike something would actually make people see just how many people really not only don't care about them but care enough about them to wish they would just die and leave a very shallow grave.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's called "disable account" - but it doesn't really work. They'll keep sending you status updates via email, and tell you when someone shares stuff with you, even though you've disabled the account. I disabled mine monthas ago, after hardly using it for several years after I finally signed up.
It's one way for them to keep their user numbers artificially inflated.
Dumped twitter years ago - boring!
Thinking of dumping google+ as well - I check it every few days, but really, it's not all that interesting compared to the real world. Especially now that spring is here! (I know, it's heresy to even speak of that big blue room with the bright light in the sky that can burn your skin if you stay there too long, and the living green carpet, and creatures that look almost as real as the digital people and birds and squirrels we see every day, ... but still ... :-)
Let's call it what it is, Anti-Social Media.
I guess I just don't understand how people can let their lives be manipulated by people or things that they dislike. Or by people that they like for that matter.
Well, here's a good example. Governer Rick Perry's "Strong" video. It was homophobic and hateful in every way. 26,404 likes, 764,362 dislikes. If there were such a thing as god I'd say he has a healthy sense of irony as well.
This one video was Perry's last stand, his last chance at being a contender. He decided to go all out and appeal to the Christian bigotry vote.
It didn't exactly work.
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