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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. Dislike Button by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Deslike button by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a "Deslike button"

    You're fond of diethylstilbestrol? You enjoy Discrete Event Simulation? You still encrypt with the Data Encryption Standard? You prefer flying out of Desroches Airport?

  3. Re:More than anything in the world... by Charliemopps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    unfortunately fads only die when even more terrible fads replace them.

  4. Re:More than anything in the world... by rockout · · Score: 5, Insightful

    None of you really have a problem with Facebook. Your real problem is with the human race, a large percentage of which have signed up for Facebook and whose numbers have grown so large that it's impossible for the rest of us to avoid Facebook, as it has permeated our lives whether we wanted it to or not.

    It's like living in Boston and trying to avoid any mention of the Red Sox.

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  5. Re:More than anything in the world... by schnell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't think of any marketing professional who would give two shakes about this metric

    Are you kidding? If I make a post about how I just bought a new Samsung Galaxy Class Starship at T-Mobile and my friends click the "want" button, it is absolutely worth gold to T-Mobile to have their ads steered to those FB users.

    Or as another application... I already share my Amazon Wishlist with my friends so they can buy me stuff I actually want for my birthday/Christmas ... why not push that directly onto Facebook and allow sellers of those items to advertise for them and/or compete on price via ads?

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  6. Re:More than anything in the world... by sarysa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is why we so desperately need to fund space research. It's the only way to get away from Facebook.

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