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Re: Facebook Social Plugins

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Post by pxlpshr » Wed, Apr 21, 2010, 10:42 PM UTC

zaidf wrote: post #19

pxlpshr wrote: post #6

I'm not sure how I feel about content being tailored based on my social graph's likes. In some cases it could be good, in others not so much. My friends list on facebook has enough of people from my small town high school days thanks to our upcoming 10 year reunion, and believe me -- we have nothing in common. Maybe I'm being cynical but I loved the internet when you sought new and exciting things without the group t…

It will be super easy for facebook to make the distinction between all your fb friends and the special friends you care/share things with. They already do this for the newsfeed.

Indeed it would be if there was a value associated to a filter, as it stands it's just a filter with an ambiguous name. I do wish the filters were easier to use, at least accessible with one click instead of buried away.

Re: Facebook Social Plugins

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Post by AmericanOP » Wed, Apr 21, 2010, 10:51 PM UTC

I would, but the facebook bar totally clashes with my Ask.com bar. And my Digg bar.

I get the feeling there are now some poor saps whose browsers resemble the flag of Sierra Leone (http://bit.ly/cDgS7A).

Re: Facebook Social Plugins

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Post by ff0066mote » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 1:27 AM UTC

I feel like this move by Facebook is opening up a ton of new opportunities for phishing scams.

There are a lot of people who won't carefully check the address bar when, upon clicking something on a website which looks like a Facebook plugin, they are asked for their Facebook login information.

Re: Facebook Social Plugins

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Post by goosmurf » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 7:37 AM UTC

AmericanOP wrote: post #22

I would, but the facebook bar totally clashes with my Ask.com bar. And my Digg bar. I get the feeling there are now some poor saps whose browsers resemble the flag of Sierra Leone ( http://bit.ly/cDgS7A ).

Not quite the same but many years ago I got bored and wanted to know how far the toolbar game could go: http://moot.mooh.org/archives/2005/02/super-toolbar.html

Re: Facebook Social Plugins

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Post by whereareyou » Thu, Apr 22, 2010, 3:45 PM UTC

whereareyou wrote: post #9

indigoviolet wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph

Thanks - that explains it well. As I understand it, anyone can set up objects for anything now and be the "voice" of that object. Seems crazy after all the trouble Facebook had with unofficial facebook pages.

And so it begins.... http://arnab.org/blog/deceiving-users-facebook-button