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Facebook Testing the Want Button

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-not-want dept.

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.'"

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  1. More than anything in the world... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I want Facebook to die.

    1. Re:More than anything in the world... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter

    2. Re:More than anything in the world... by biometrizilla · · Score: 5, Funny

      I want to see how many "Wants" Kate Upton's page gets.

    3. Re:More than anything in the world... by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...I want Facebook to die.

      Where's that damn like button when you need it?

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      An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
    4. Re:More than anything in the world... by ae1294 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your facebook.

  2. Obligatory by sam_paris · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do not want.

    1. Re:Obligatory by ohnocitizen · · Score: 3, Funny

      I already want it. SO BAD. I want the following buttons for status: "Dislike", "Do Not Want", "That's What She Said", "That's What He Said", "That's What the Fuzzy Little Creature From Alpha Centauri Said".... Oh, and also "Winter is Coming".

  3. Next: "Fucked" button. by Post-O-Matron · · Score: 5, Funny

    So we know who fucked whom.

    What else is left?

  4. Re:Ob. Babylon 5 Reference by Antipater · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but the next question in that line is "Do you have anything worth living for?" Then Facebook gets sued for causing a thousand suicides.

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    Everything is better with chainsaws.
  5. Only one button left... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 1, Funny

    Okay, so Like and Want... are we going to get "Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"?

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  6. Re:Great by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soon you will be able to tell Facebook more complicated things like:

    me want banana like banana .

    Daylight come and me wanna go home?

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    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
  7. Facebook has the only button Facebook needs: by PeanutButterBreath · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Log Out"

    I'm sure they are looking in to ways to phase it out.