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by gtd 4957 days ago
> Just because you enjoy a certain brand doesn't mean you actually want to know every little thing they're doing.

Twitter is more obvious semantically, but heavy Likers of brands on Facebook already understand the implication, and increasingly so will everyone else, regardless of the terminology. For me it's basically to the point where I only Like things that are owned or run by people that I actually know.

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I am reminded

I never liked anything on facebook (via a 'like' button) but I do have several likes.

Before the facebook feed , before even the facebook wall, the personal information field of your profile was a text blob. Over time facebook parsed this information and matched it to pages, giving me likes.

Now i get updates from films in my feed because 7 years ago I added them to a text field called 'movies/tv'

Doesn't bother me because I hardly use facebook anymore. But it is interesting to think how it has changed.