Facebook Testing the Want Button

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Facebook Testing the Want Button

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 2, 2012 @09:33AM 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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More than anything in the world... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 09:33 · Score: 5, Funny

...I want Facebook to die.
1. Re:More than anything in the world... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 09:40 · 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 · 2012-07-02 09:40 · 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 · 2012-07-02 10:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ...I want Facebook to die.
  Where's that damn like button when you need it?
  
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4. Re:More than anything in the world... by clarkkent09 · 2012-07-02 10:52 · Score: 1
  
  It will. It's just another fad after all.
  
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5. Re:More than anything in the world... by ae1294 · 2012-07-02 12:10 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your facebook.
6. Re:More than anything in the world... by Charliemopps · 2012-07-02 12:17 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  unfortunately fads only die when even more terrible fads replace them.
7. Re:More than anything in the world... by datavirtue · 2012-07-02 12:36 · Score: 1
  
  That is about all the value you will get out of this button. I can't think of any marketing professional who would give two shakes about this metric. It is worthless data. I however, have wanted a want button for comedic purposes for some time, and that is what it will be used for. That, and Magic Mike.
  
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8. Re:More than anything in the world... by TheGoodNamesWereGone · 2012-07-02 12:42 · Score: 1
  
  As the Romans say, "T-R-V-T-H." Million of males will use it to 'want' females, and then Facebook will face accusations of harrassment.
9. Re:More than anything in the world... by rockout · 2012-07-02 12:43 · 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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10. Re:More than anything in the world... by schnell · 2012-07-02 13:21 · 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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11. Re:More than anything in the world... by mug+funky · 2012-07-02 13:21 · Score: 1
  
  #firstworldproblems
12. Re:More than anything in the world... by SacredNaCl · 2012-07-02 13:39 · Score: 1
  
  I want Facebook amps not to be a completely privacy invading tool that puts anything I might send or say privately out into the world at large for sale to even a modest bidder.
  On second thought...I think I want Facebook to die too. Their only viable business model is to put our stuff out in the street for profit. I've gotten to where I am hesitant to use it for anything important, and my contacts there are mostly "here is my new phone #, secure IM, and my email -- lets talk there". Facebook's privacy policy, and implementation of it leaves a LOT to be desired especially where apps are concerned.
  
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13. Re:More than anything in the world... by sarysa · 2012-07-02 14:18 · 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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14. Re:More than anything in the world... by Jimbob+The+Mighty · 2012-07-02 14:31 · Score: 1
  
  I like this.
15. Re:More than anything in the world... by hundredrabh · 2012-07-02 16:16 · Score: 1
  
  ...I want Facebook to die.
  Like
  
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16. Re:More than anything in the world... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 16:18 · Score: 1
  
  Just you responding with this insanely-detailed rant illustrates the point that was made in the post before yours. Facebook has obviously taken over your entire life despite "only" 10%... oh wait? what's that? it's actually much higher?
  hmm, looks like 800 million users so far worldwide. Obviously higher than 10%. And if you look at the "US citizens" that you've cited - it appears to be 50% of the entire population, and 65% of the online population. No wonder you posted anonymously - with lies like "10%", it'd be nice if you're ignored completely.
  http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/united-states
17. Re:More than anything in the world... by jones_supa · 2012-07-02 16:44 · Score: 1
  
  Pirate Bay would still hold its place as the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.
18. Re:More than anything in the world... by davester666 · 2012-07-02 17:32 · Score: 2
  
  and fb will 'accidentally' become the affiliate associated with all amazon links...
  
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19. Re:More than anything in the world... by Tastecicles · 2012-07-02 20:11 · Score: 1
  
  *Like*
  
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20. Re:More than anything in the world... by Chrisq · 2012-07-02 20:49 · Score: 2
  
  ...I want Facebook to die.
  Where's that damn like button when you need it?
  And where's the button to say you want a like button.
21. Re:More than anything in the world... by silentcoder · 2012-07-02 22:16 · Score: 1
  
  >Samsung Galaxy Class Starship at T-Mobile
  I don't know if the mixture of Star Trek (post-scarcity society - by definition incapable of supporting a capitalist economy) with a capitalist symbol such as a corporation was a deliberate irony but either way - I lol'd.
  
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22. Re:More than anything in the world... by silentcoder · 2012-07-02 22:24 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  >It will. It's just another fad after all.
  I'm not so sure you're right. It's already outlived every social network before it (by which I mean total lifespan from foundation to demise) - and it doesn't even seem to have peaked in users yet.
  Several attempts at competition have come and gone - twice from the mighty google (and one of those arguably had a better user-experience to start with) and still it remains the behemoth of most people's online experience.
  There may be more to this than just a fad. I think part of it may be in their internal approach to running the company. They seem to seriously focus on being an awesome place to work who can get the best of the best coding minds. A friend of mine was a google engineer, she just left them for facebook - she actually took a paycut to do that (granted she was with google in Zurich which is the best paid development office in the WORLD - she would take a paycut for ANY other job).
  If you look at their job ads they include this choice line: "Most developers are used to weeks or months between writing code and it reaching production. At facebook, your code will be in production on the busiest website in the world within days."
  Now doesn't that sound exciting ? Scary? Challenging ? The kind of thing that the true geniusses of our field love ?
  Maybe, just maybe, facebook is doing well because they offer a service their users find valuable, their customers benefit from (and I am well aware that those aren't the same people) and they give their technologists the creative free reign to make magic ?
  
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23. Re:More than anything in the world... by SomePgmr · 2012-07-03 00:48 · Score: 1
  
  The makers of Pinterest would like to subscribe as well, I suspect. I'd guess this little button foreshadows their demise.
  How much must it suck to have your exciting new project blown to bits by Facebook? :(
24. Re:More than anything in the world... by JasterBobaMereel · 2012-07-03 00:48 · Score: 2
  
  I joined Facebook because a lot of people I know are on it, this is mostly the same reason most people joined, I don't think much of it but my friends are still there, (mostly because so is everyone else)
  They would have to seriously annoy their users to lose them, this is what happened to MySpace, and the biggest complaint against Google+ was that "no one is on it" ...
  Why would you leave Facebook to join another similar system that has only a few of your friends on it ...?
  
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25. Re:More than anything in the world... by silentcoder · 2012-07-03 01:15 · Score: 1
  
  I have no doubt that what you are suggesting is a significant factor (indeed "all my friends are there" is part of the 'valuable service' I mentioned). Occam's razor suggests it's a major factor in their success since it is certainly the easiest explanation.
  The question I raised was: is it really the ONLY factor ?
  
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26. Re:More than anything in the world... by roman_mir · 2012-07-03 01:46 · Score: 1
  
  I am still holding strong, me and the other guy too.
  
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27. Re:More than anything in the world... by tomthegeek · 2012-07-03 03:50 · Score: 1
  
  Go off the grid. Join Google+
28. Re:More than anything in the world... by benhattman · 2012-07-03 03:51 · Score: 1
  
  Does it matter? If my feed is indicative of anything, it's already withering. Everybody might be on the Facebook, but from what I can tell during the once a month I bother to log in, only about 3% of the users post more than 5 times a year. Interestingly, the changes to timeline and such have had the effect of filtering out the banal posts, so it appears less activity is occurring than the now limited amount there is.
  I might be an outlier. Maybe the people I know are bored of Facebook but everyone else is gung-ho. It probably won't die, but perhaps the fate in store for Facebook is much worse. It will become an evite planner and not much else.
29. Re:More than anything in the world... by hutsell · 2012-07-04 02:21 · Score: 1
  
  ...I want Facebook to die.
  Where's that damn like button when you need it?
  Perhaps it's time for someone to consider "inventing" the KILL button. Imagine the possibilities.
  
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Obligatory by sam_paris · 2012-07-02 09:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Do not want.
1. Re:Obligatory by FrootLoops · 2012-07-02 10:10 · Score: 1
  
  Then hopefully Zuckerberg won't Like it.
2. Re:Obligatory by hawks5999 · 2012-07-02 10:16 · Score: 2
  
  That (do not want) will become the most requested feature after A Dislike button.
3. Re:Obligatory by jo_ham · 2012-07-02 10:31 · Score: 1
  
  I think it's clear now that Facebook are a front for The Shadows in the coming war.
  What *do* I want?
4. Re:Obligatory by ackthpt · 2012-07-02 10:36 · Score: 2
  
  Do not want.
  You need an Ignore button.
  
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5. Re:Obligatory by ackthpt · 2012-07-02 10:37 · Score: 2
  
  Then hopefully Zuckerberg won't Like it.
  I wonder if there's already a Zuck-it button in the works.
  
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6. Re:Obligatory by SteveFoerster · 2012-07-02 10:46 · Score: 1
  
  Nah, it's not like they're not also keenly concerned with "Who are you?" Either way, though, it would be nice if they'd get the hell out of our galaxy.
  
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7. Re:Obligatory by SteveFoerster · 2012-07-02 10:47 · Score: 1
  
  Nah, it's not like they're not also keenly concerned with "Who are you?" Either way, though, it would be nice if they'd get the hell out of our galaxy.
  
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8. Re:Obligatory by SteveFoerster · 2012-07-02 10:48 · Score: 1
  
  Looks like I ineptly responded in the wrong place. My bad.
  
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9. Re:Obligatory by ohnocitizen · 2012-07-02 11:02 · 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".
10. Re:Obligatory by NoEvidenZ · 2012-07-02 11:18 · Score: 1
  
  And by clicking the Zuck-it button you screw your friends out of all their money, right?
11. Re:Obligatory by Pax681 · 2012-07-02 11:55 · Score: 1
  
  and of course the "and vagina" button.... hmmmm would that button get called a clitorus? :P
12. Re:Obligatory by mug+funky · 2012-07-02 13:24 · Score: 2
  
  there already is a clitoris button. just saying... maybe you should search a bit more for it.
13. Re:Obligatory by Nehmo · 2012-07-02 13:41 · Score: 1
  
  And by clicking the Zuck-it button you screw your friends out of all their money, right?
  Is that what he did? I'm not up on the subject, but I really don't want to bother to search about it. Do you have a link?
  
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14. Re:Obligatory by Pax681 · 2012-07-02 14:04 · Score: 2
  
  and lo.. when Mug Funky looked above there was indeed a great WHOOSHING sound
15. Re:Obligatory by hendridm · 2012-07-02 15:35 · Score: 1
  
  Don't forget "I'd Hit It" and "It's A Trap!"...
16. Re:Obligatory by Hognoxious · 2012-07-02 18:03 · Score: 1
  
  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=zuckerberg+Winklevoss
  
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17. Re:Obligatory by Hognoxious · 2012-07-02 18:04 · Score: 1
  
  How about "Likes me" (in Cryillic)?
  
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18. Re:Obligatory by Nehmo · 2012-07-03 12:09 · Score: 1
  
  Perhaps my nonchalant post led you to think I haven't looked into the subject at all. I've seen the movie, and I read the general media stories. I'm also familiar with the Winklevoss claim. They settled some time ago. Is this dispute why you believe Zuck screws his friends out of money?
  
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Next: "Fucked" button. by Post-O-Matron · 2012-07-02 09:38 · Score: 5, Funny

So we know who fucked whom.
What else is left?
1. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by V-similitude · 2012-07-02 09:53 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Want to fuck?
2. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 09:55 · Score: 1
  
  And not a single "fucked" was given that day.
3. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by 0100010001010011 · 2012-07-02 10:28 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  They used to have it. Under 'Relationships' there was a 'Hooked Up' option with a date. iirc it was one of 4: Single, It's complicated, In relationship with and hooked up.
  Back before the apps, before ... well damn near everything.
4. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by jrroche · 2012-07-02 11:35 · Score: 2
  
  They used to have it. Under 'Relationships' there was a 'Hooked Up' option with a date. iirc it was one of 4: Single, It's complicated, In relationship with and hooked up.
  Back before the apps, before ... well damn near everything.
  I've been with Facebook since it was only available for individual university campuses and there was never a Hooked Up option for relationship status. There was, however, a way you could specify how you knew someone (i.e. worked with [friend] at [company] in [year], had [class] with [friend] in [year], [friend] is a relative, etc) and "hooked up with [friend] in [year]" was among those options, but it was very buried in a person's friends list and certainly not something that was displayed prominently on their profile. It wouldn't have made sense anyway. A hookup, assuming all goes as it should, is by nature not a relationship status.
5. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by Torodung · 2012-07-02 11:45 · Score: 1
  
  A "fuck it" button, so we know where to draw a line.
6. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by Exrio · 2012-07-02 12:12 · Score: 1
  
  If you need that button you're doing it wrong.
7. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by ModernGeek · 2012-07-02 13:40 · Score: 1
  
  They also used to have "Looking For" and the options were "Friendship / Dating / A Relationship / Random Play / Networking". You know, back when social networking actually meant networking with new people. Now the culture is "don't add people you don't know".
  
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8. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by cavebison · 2012-07-03 05:34 · Score: 1
  
  What else is left?
  Well, I've been waiting for them to update the "Like" button so it has 3 options:
  1. "Like" (default)
  2. "Support" - can be used for a cause or product, or for a friend's "my dog just died" post where "like" isn't exactly appropriate.
  3. "Want"
  So perhaps soon they'll do the last one, and I'm sure eventually the "support" type one will come.
9. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by Post-O-Matron · 2012-07-03 07:02 · Score: 1
  
  I think you missed the point,
  The "Like" button is a powerful commercial instrument. If you've worked with the FB API you'd know what data-mining you can do with it to find out things about your users. Namely - what they like. So you can try and sell that to them. Compare it to Google ads - super-sophisticated backend algorithms trying to figure out what you are looking for by analysing your recent browsing and the massive history and profiling they keep about you (because every website has google ads so they can follow you through the internet) - all so that they can serve you just the right ad.
  And here FB comes along and just *prompt* you to tell them what you like! How simple - and we do it. Not only that but that comes free with who you are, where you live, who your friends are, what things interest you and a whole wealth of information about you. Without not a fraction of the computing power and algorithmic sophistication that Google needed to invest to reach the same result. There is a reason why Google were upset with FB when they came out with the embeddable Like button, why they tried to compete with the +1, and why next to SEO companies talk about FBO as well now.
  The "Want" button is just the next logical step up from that. The reason I hate it and mock is because it's so obvious. With the like button there was an element of "social" "niceness" to it and you could argue that its roots where in social interaction rather than commercial opportunities. With the "Want" button they will basically drop the act - tell us what you *want* so that we can try and sell that to you. Seriously, what are the masses going to click *Want* about? World peace? Or that latest gadget from company X? They might "Like" all sort of things every now and then that don't directly give you meaningful information for your company's commercial efforts. The "Want" button weeds away the funny comments and silly videos and gets right down to what people *want*.
  So yeah, they might create a "Support" button along the way if it's not any additional hassle and doesn't clutter the UI or takes your attention away from the "Want" button. But they couldn't give a toss about it. Unless of course it turns out that they can sell the information to politicians, in which case they'll add it with friggin bells on.
give me a dislike button and I sign up by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 09:38 · Score: 1

And as far as products are concerned, we have more use for a "do not buy!" button.
Dislike Button by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 09:41 · 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.
1. Re:Dislike Button by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 10:22 · Score: 1
  
  How about a greasemonkey script that allows users to see the new "Want" button to be a "Dislike" button? Spread it amongst enough people and I'm sure it could catch on and severely backfire on facebook if people twist this stupid Want into a long-awaited Like/Dislike combination.
Re:How about a "Do not want" button? by ArsonSmith · 2012-07-02 09:42 · Score: 1

NOOOOOoooooooo........!!!!!

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Like a want or want a like by Rejemy · 2012-07-02 09:49 · Score: 2

Can I "like" someone's "want" or "want" someone's "like"?
1. Re:Like a want or want a like by TaoPhoenix · 2012-07-02 13:17 · Score: 1
  
  "Can I ... or "want" someone's "like"?
  Oh I know this one!
  You want to covet thy neighbor's wife!
  
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Re:Ob. Babylon 5 Reference by Antipater · 2012-07-02 09:50 · 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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Sadly, that knowledge could have helped by Trashcan+Romeo · 2012-07-02 09:50 · Score: 2

"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.
Deslike button by tmpsantos · 2012-07-02 09:51 · Score: 1

What I really want is a "Deslike button".
1. Re:Deslike button by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 09:58 · 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?
2. Re:Deslike button by CanHasDIY · 2012-07-02 10:05 · Score: 1
  
  What I really want is a "Deslike button".
  WTF is 'deslike?'
  
  That makes so little sense I can't even think of a way to make fun of it...
  
  Perhaps you meant a dislike button?
  
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Great by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-02 09:56 · Score: 1

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.
1. Re:Great by Nidi62 · 2012-07-02 10:01 · 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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2. Re:Great by sco08y · 2012-07-02 13:03 · Score: 1
  
  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.
  A banana button? Sounds like Web 4.0 to me!
Only one button left... by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-07-02 09:57 · Score: 1, Funny

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

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I want by obarthelemy · 2012-07-02 10:00 · Score: 1

all my contacts' email addresses back !

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needs a Shit button instead, really by Eponymous+Hero · 2012-07-02 10:08 · Score: 1

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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Facebook - So Damn Positive by CanHasDIY · 2012-07-02 10:08 · Score: 1

... It'll give you dia-fucking-betes.

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[dislike] by erica_ann · 2012-07-02 10:11 · Score: 1

I think people [want] a [dislike] button more than they want a [want] button
Dislike button by Iniamyen · 2012-07-02 10:16 · Score: 1

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.

Matchbox 20's new album - Beige
(30,000 people like this) - (30,000 people dislike this) = score:0
Facebook has the only button Facebook needs: by PeanutButterBreath · 2012-07-02 10:26 · Score: 5, Funny

"Log Out"
I'm sure they are looking in to ways to phase it out.
1. Re:Facebook has the only button Facebook needs: by DigiShaman · 2012-07-02 11:32 · Score: 1
  
  Sorry man. Once you're in, you're in!
  
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2. Re:Facebook has the only button Facebook needs: by Ford+Prefect · 2012-07-02 17:21 · Score: 1
  
  There's the Delete Button, but for some reason it's hard to find.
  
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3. Re:Facebook has the only button Facebook needs: by jones_supa · 2012-07-02 17:21 · Score: 1
  
  I'm sure they are looking in to ways to phase it out.
  If I remember correctly, initially it wasn't hidden behind a menu, so in a way they have already taken a step in that direction.
Thou shalt not by Dachannien · 2012-07-02 10:36 · Score: 1

I need a Greasemonkey script that changes it to a "covet" button.
Do not want... by nighthawk243 · 2012-07-02 10:52 · Score: 2

Can we also get a "Do not want" button as well? The amount of fat/ugly girls trolled would be amusing.
So many things to "Want" ... by fahrbot-bot · 2012-07-02 10:56 · Score: 1

... 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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Future Facebook Buttons by NicknamesAreStupid · 2012-07-02 11:04 · Score: 1

Hot
Not
My
Benjamin
Button, Who's Got the . . .
The
Help
Push
Really Big
Burning with Desire
Need
Gotta-Have-It
Die Trying
Don't Push This (my favorite)
Re:Ob. Babylon 5 Reference by lightknight · 2012-07-02 11:05 · Score: 1

And if it asks "Where are you going?" then we will that MS was successful with their hostile takeover (a play off of MS's typical logo -> "Where do you want to go today?").

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Re:Ob. Babylon 5 Reference by Obfuscant · 2012-07-02 11:16 · Score: 1

(a play off of MS's typical logo -> "Where do you want to go today?").
I thought that was "where do you want to go, toady?"
What about the other two options? by erice · 2012-07-02 11:17 · Score: 1

If are going to have "What do you want?", you also need "Who are you", and "Why are you here?"
1. Re:What about the other two options? by PeanutButterBreath · 2012-07-02 11:23 · Score: 1
  
  If are going to have "What do you want?", you also need "Who are you", and "Why are you here?"
  To the extend that Facebook cares, the latter two can be deduced from the former.
2. Re:What about the other two options? by transwarp · 2012-07-02 13:01 · Score: 1
  
  If are going to have "What do you want?", you also need "Who are you", and "Why are you here?"
  They already ask "Who are your friends?" and they probably have enough information to infer "Who do you trust?"
And shades of Babylon 5. by Ungrounded+Lightning · 2012-07-02 11:48 · Score: 1

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.

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Sound track for the Want button by ElmoGonzo · 2012-07-02 13:07 · Score: 1

Click the Want button on a person and you hear a version of the Bob Dylan song "I Want You"
What do I Want? by LordGr8one · 2012-07-02 14:23 · Score: 1

"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next 10 generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me Mr. Zuckerberg?"
What I WANT by Ralph+Spoilsport · 2012-07-02 15:39 · Score: 1

is a DISLIKE button.

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FB's going after Pinterest... by Maxmin · 2012-07-02 16:07 · Score: 1

...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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Re:What Do I want? by jones_supa · 2012-07-02 17:19 · Score: 2

It's your computer. It does what you tell it to do (*).
But he probably didn't tell his computer to track him with like buttons on third party sites. It's something you have to explicitly block, and that's the problem.
Disgusting by jones_supa · 2012-07-02 17:23 · Score: 1

A button tailored for marketers to "want" different products.
I can so see this... by theKingofShit · 2012-07-02 18:26 · Score: 1

Half of the users will probably want sex within minutes when this feature comes live.
I think I will put up a page called by Chrisq · 2012-07-02 20:51 · Score: 1

I think I will put up a page called "The Lord's my Sheppard I shall not ...."
Re:Next: "Fucked" button. Your sister by codepunk · 2012-07-02 20:53 · Score: 1

Your sister will not find it all that amusing.

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Announced last year? by se7en11 · 2012-07-03 01:27 · Score: 1

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/
Generations by DrYak · 2012-07-03 03:20 · Score: 2

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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