Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook?

pigrabbitbear writes "Mother Jones reports that, 'In recent weeks, a host of liberal types have complained that their Facebook accounts have erroneously "liked" Romney's page, and some are floating the theory that the Romney campaign has deployed a virus or used other nefarious means to inflate the candidate's online stature. This conspiratorial notion has spawned a Facebook community forum, and its own page: "Hacked By Mitt Romney" (cute url: facebook.com/MittYouDidntBuildThat)' So what's going on? Is the Romney campaign engaging in some tech wizardry to hijack Americans' Facebook pages? Seems unlikely, but Romney did somehow manage to acquire millions of fake Twitter followers. But it looks like the Romney campaign isn't behind this one — Facebook and its mobile app is."

Comments

Re:I won't join Facebook until...

[Nationless]

I like this.

But I don't have any mod points.

So I'm just going to leave this oddly meta post about liking what you just said.

Re:Simple mix up

[rwa2]

One other thing is, to participate on discussions on a page, you must "like" it.

So some of those liberals that "like" him may have "liked" him for the purposes of trolling the page.

This.

If you've ever been to either Obama's or Romney's page, all the comments are pretty much chock-full of hatin' from the other side.

I worked for Microsoft Game Studios for a while and our FB page was pretty much the same way. It was kinda nice, because all of the trolls would hang out on FB and forums... where no one would read them except for other haters. Anyone who was actually playing our game would then be pretty much free to play online relatively unmolested by trolls in-game.

Same thing with youtube... if it wasn't for youtube trolls, we'd probably have many more here :P