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Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?

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Post by kevinh »

j-g-faustus wrote: post #22
kevinh wrote: post #20

I haven't noticed this yet. Would someone kindly point me towards an example?

http://techcrunch.com/ Every story has a Like, a Buzz and a Retweet button.

I see. Thanks for showing me. It seems largely unobtrusive, but also pretty useless for me.

Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?

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Post by peterzakin »

Detrus wrote: post #8

Poor digg, that was supposed to be their trick

People may end up preferring liking to digging (though who knows at this point), but when it comes to actively looking for interesting content, digg's still got something to hang onto. It begs the question, however, whether facebook will ever make an attempt to organize all of the outside links users promote so that such content becomes discoverable by topic and not just incidental lines on the newsfeed?

Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?

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Post by petercooper »

Why do we need all these buttons to do things we already all have our own specific ways of doing?

If you want to bookmark something, bookmark it in the way you know how (in browser, Delicious, etc). If you want to tweet about something, go tweet about it in the client of your choice.

Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?

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Post by barredo »

I actually like them.

But someone could make a quick userscript to hide them :-)

Edit:

  // ==UserScript==
  // @name           I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
  // @namespace      I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
  // @description    Hide all Facebook 'Like' buttons
  // @include        *
  // ==/UserScript==
  
  (function () {
  	var i = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
  	if(i) {
  		for(e in i) {
  			if(i[e].src.match(/http\:\/\/www.facebook.com\/widgets\/like.php/gi)) {
  				i[e].style.display = 'none';
  				i[e].style.visibility = 'hidden';
  			}
  		}
  	}
  })();

Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?

#30

Post by dmoney »

whalesalad wrote: post #16
Batsu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm the same way. I often read articles that I would like to share with people, but since I'm more interested in the ensuing discussion, I'd rather directly link a person during a conversation (or as a way to start one) rather than throw it at my Facebook page or similar. I consider sites like HN quite different, as that is their sole purpose :)

Yea that stuff is totally blocked out of my mind. I use Facebook to connect with my friends and family, and will share a link occasionally if it really pertains to me. For the most part, though, I don't like spamming mass amounts of data to friends. The only benefit I see to things like delicious and other "social bookmarking" tools is the fact that they're "up in the cloud", aka, backed up somewhere away from my bro…

Do people really use the whole "social bookmarking" part of Delicious? I mean, I've tagged a few things for:whomever, but 99% of my usage has been bookmarking stuff for myself, or looking for stuff I've bookmarked.
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