Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
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Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
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Re: Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
#2No, it just says that you "like" something. The tense works both in the past and present. Facebook never says that you liked something that you did not.
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#3This has been happening for quite sometime. I believe those pages are sponsoring these advertisements, and essentially are showing that your friends had previously liked them.
Nothing new.
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#5No, it just says that you "like" something. The tense works both in the past and present. Facebook never says that you liked something that you did not.
This article is rather low on substance, but it links to [0], which has been here before (can't find any discussion, though), and claimed exactly the opposite, namely that Facebook said you liked something you never liked.
[0] http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/why-are-dead-people-liking-s...
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#6It's true that Facebook doesn't post anything that you haven't previously liked, however, I believe, in many cases people do think that somebody have explicitly liked that particular sponsored post rather than the page behind it.
Re: Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
#7No, it just says that you "like" something. The tense works both in the past and present. Facebook never says that you liked something that you did not.
This article is rather low on substance, but it links to [0], which has been here before (can't find any discussion, though), and claimed exactly the opposite, namely that Facebook said you liked something you never liked. [0] http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/why-are-dead-people-liking-s...
Maybe the guy despised corporate bullshit, but entered a Discover-sponsored sweepstakes or something similar that had a like requirement.
Or, he had to like Discover's page to be able to post comments there bashing their corporate bullshit.
There are a number of explanations, and deeming Facebook to be faking likes based on "I don't think my dead friend would've liked this page" is a little tenuous.
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#8The question is: can I opt out of this, or am I obliged to deal with this as long as I'm a Facebook user. I personally find this is pretty bad. I don't want my friends seeing my past likes from several years ago and seeing me endorse something stupid that I liked before (on the front page). Do I need to go through my likes and curate it all the time? It's different if it's just on my profile because having it in the news feed suggests that I liked this thing recently.
I think I'm seriously 1 step closer to just closing my Facebook account. Also, look at all those nasty ads on the right side. I use ad blocker so I don't see any of those, but looking at his video, that is definitely noisy.
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#9I'm not sure if this article is about this, it doesn't sound like it, but a lot of web apps provide their development team with the ability to impersonate users as it's a great way to debug issues a user may be seeing.
Re: Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
#10No, it just says that you "like" something. The tense works both in the past and present. Facebook never says that you liked something that you did not.
The tense doesn't work in both the past and present. That's why you had to switch to the past tense to make your second point. Translating it back to the present gives "Facebook says that you like something that you do not", which is what the OP is complaining about.