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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 biometrizilla · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    2. 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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    3. 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.

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

    Do not want.

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

    So we know who fucked whom.

    What else is left?

    1. Re:Next: "Fucked" button. by 0100010001010011 · · 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. 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.

  5. 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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  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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  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.