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Facebook Testing the Want Button
redletterdave writes "Facebook already knows what you 'Like.' Soon, it may ask you what you 'Want'. Tom Waddington, a Web developer for the craft website Cut Out + Keep, discovered that Facebook has included code for a disabled 'Want' button within the Javascript of its list of social plug-ins. The code was released to the Facebook Javascript SDK last Wednesday, but Waddington discovered the disabled button among other embedded tags, including 'degrees,' 'social context' and 'page events.' Waddington says the 'Want' button would work with Open Graph projects that use the tag 'products.'"
...I want Facebook to die.
This is what innovation has come to in the age of the web 2.0
Do not want.
So we know who fucked whom.
What else is left?
And as far as products are concerned, we have more use for a "do not buy!" button.
Darth Vader wants a "Do not want" button.
That would actually make facebook a useful tool. Of course the advertisers don't want their products to be branded as disliked, so it will never happen.
It already asks "Who are you?"
Now it's going to ask "What do you want?"
All we need now is "Why are you here?" and it'll be proof that Facebook is a plot of the First Ones.
Why yes, I have been rewatching Babylon 5, why do you ask?
Can I "like" someone's "want" or "want" someone's "like"?
plans for a "care" button were terminated earlier in the development process
"A "Want" button would help Facebook get back into Wall Street's good graces. By opening up an API for a "Want" button, companies will be able to more accurately gauge the interest in a given product, whether it's already released or still upcoming." Too bad Facebook didn't have access to such information before changing everyone's e-mail address.
What I really want is a "Deslike button".
I want you to stop tracking me with like buttons on third party sites.
I want you to stop building a profile on me without my consent.
I also want a golden toilet seat... I might as well wish for something obtainable.
Soon you will be able to tell Facebook more complicated things like:
me want banana
like banana
want like me
want fuck
and so on. Just by adding a few buttons, the possibilities will be nearly endless.
Okay, so Like and Want... are we going to get "Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"?
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Like to unlike is as want to unwant. Oldspeak ungood.
the HATE button, damn you Facebook!
you know the old saying, "wish in one hand and shit in the other -- see which one you get first." how useful is this to marketers when everyone "Wants" a lamborghini, a $10,000 designer suit, and other outrageously expensive shit. dumb ass idea. everyone start making your ideals into product pages. then we can "Want" world peace, war with china, no more taxes, death to our least favorite politicians/entertainers/slashdotters, etc. what a stupid, stupid, stupid idea ripe for abuse. just like Like.
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Privacy! Posted as AC for obvious reasons.
I think people [want] a [dislike] button more than they want a [want] button
Just in time for my "Do Not Care Button".
I am with others here who would instead prefer a "dislike" button. "Dislikes" would preferably cancel out "likes," for the ultimate in meaningless, peanut-buttered, crowdsourced opinion.
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(30,000 people like this) - (30,000 people dislike this) = score:0
"Log Out"
I'm sure they are looking in to ways to phase it out.
I need a Greasemonkey script that changes it to a "covet" button.
Can we also get a "Do not want" button as well? The amount of fat/ugly girls trolled would be amusing.
... like Facebook not constantly messing with privacy and email settings without users' knowledge or consent. Will there be buttons for those.
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Burning with Desire
Need
Gotta-Have-It
Die Trying
Don't Push This (my favorite)
If are going to have "What do you want?", you also need "Who are you", and "Why are you here?"
I've just been running through the Babylon 5 DVDs.
A running theme was that the shadows (and their agents) were always asking "What do you want?", then using your wants to tempt you into their schemes.
Facebook seems to keep aligning with SF cycles' dark sides.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Click the Want button on a person and you hear a version of the Bob Dylan song "I Want You"
I don't click LIKE for any product or website, I just keep it polite and like my friends posts when they say something I agree with. I won't be using the want button. By the way, does anyone know how to greasemonkey the likes into unlike? I'm deleting everything at the moment and before I can delete my account (not deactivate), I need to completely erase my history or else they will give me the finger to try again.
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is a DISLIKE button.
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...was my first thought, seeing "want button." Now I think this is probably just a way to hook up FBers with companies' products, another way of clicking on an ad.
Although, much of what's on Pinterest is about pining away for the things we can't afford...
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Now give us a "dislike" button. Seriously. That way we can show how much we appreciate facebook.
A button tailored for marketers to "want" different products.
Half of the users will probably want sex within minutes when this feature comes live.
It's the only way to be sure!
Who cares about crap like this ?
Slashdot is so far over the shark it's a joke.
I think I will put up a page called "The Lord's my Sheppard I shall not ...."
Your sister will not find it all that amusing.
Got Code?
I thought they announced last year that they would be opening up their Open Graph API to handle all kind of verbs. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
Why would you leave Facebook to join another similar system that has only a few of your friends on it ...?
Because those friends aren't your parents, teachers, etc.
Simply wait, I'm sure that a generation gap will form in a few years.
When your are an old grump, you don't join facebook, because you and your peers are already used to organise your life in a way which doesn't involve internet.
When you are a young adult today, you join facebook, because all your friends are organising their lives online through it.
When you are a kid today, even if you're only forming your first social circles and the like, you'll probably be okay with using facebook for this, because it's here, it's well enough for what you need, and most importantly, the old grumps aren't around.
Now shift this list a few years: It's easy to see whiile some time down the road the kids will start to flock to some new underdog, while the rest of the older prefer staying on facebook.
If you were a kid, would you really like to be on the same social network as your school's principal or the teacher you hate the most or your parents, if all of them were as internet-savvy as todays young adults ?
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