Or any kind of sharing widgets, for that matter. If only web admins would trust visitors to have their own bookmarklets or extensions, so that pages wouldn't have all the cruft.
Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
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Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#32I don't care for the unnormalized "number of diggs/tweets/karma" etc.
I'd actually use the "like" buttons if they learned what I liked/disliked, rather than just being there to show off an unnormalized and somewhat meaningless figure.
Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#33I completely ignore all that social networking stuff; my brain sees them as ads and blocks them subconsciously.
Not to worry, there'll soon be plenty of Greasemonkey scripts that take care of this well enough for you that your brain can tend to other tasks.
Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#34I added the following rule to Adblock plus:
* facebook.com/plugins*
Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#35I completely ignore all that social networking stuff; my brain sees them as ads and blocks them subconsciously.
Not to worry, there'll soon be plenty of Greasemonkey scripts that take care of this well enough for you that your brain can tend to other tasks.
or you can just adblock the iframe url with a filter:
|http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?*Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#36Simple solution: Complainbook.com. The web is viewed through a frame that that adds Dislike buttons to every piece of content. It aggregates what people are disliking and recommends things to the user that they will be sure to hate. It will instantly gain a high market share amongst content degregators, and Facebook will see everyone disliking their Like buttons with the Dislike button and be less evil.
It would also include location based features where users upload geotags of places they've never been, nor would want to go to.
Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#37"food and shows"- that's what the masses want, unfortunately
I think "bread and circuses" is more standard :)
Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#38Can we re-phrase the question in less of a reddit-style way?What's the discussion we want to have behind this?
I can't agree more. Look at the first comment: 20 karma points, and no real substance, hackerish or otherwise.
I'd like to see a discussion about (a) what it actually means to "like" something, (b) what demographics currently use the "like" buttons (c) are there any startup ideas to revolutionize the distribution of information etc.
Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#39I completely ignore all that social networking stuff; my brain sees them as ads and blocks them subconsciously.
Same here...there are so mamy of them they are shrinking down all the time. Makes me feel a bit sorry for bloggers, watching their retweet and like and digg scores all the time.
Re: Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I use it pretty heavily. It's one of the main ways I share links with friends.