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A friend could have liked a brand years ago and it could just be showing in your News Feed now, it doesn't have to show based on when they liked it.
The 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…
I hate when people say things like "without users consent" as if those users didn't accept the TOS which I'm sure gives Facebook the ability to repost your likes.
When you're logged into Jonny Wonny and you're scrolling down your News Feed, how come a post from VICE is there (3:19 & 3:16)? You had to like VICE in order for it to appear in News Feed. So your whole argument is false. A friend could have liked a brand years ago and it could just be showing in your News Feed now, it doesn't have to show based on when they liked it.
This article is disingenuous. Facebook is putting related sponsored content next to a 'like' in the feed and it is labeled as such. The complaint here boils down to that an unsophisticated viewer might think that sponsored content was what was originally liked when it was actually not. They say this is "impersonating a user". That seems way over the top.
The post from OP stemmed from such an "unsophisticated viewer," namely: his mother; she thought that he had liked an article about "Penis Waffles" that VICE posted some months ago, and she urged him to take the post down due to its vulgar nature.
Of course, he couldn't take the post down, and had no way of even KNOWING the post was being shown to his friends and family.
The 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…
To my mind it's the price of publically 'liking' something. With that in mind, I only 'like' things that I would be happy to market to my friends.