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According to Elan Morgan, the Facebook 'Like' button does more than acknowledge your friends' posts.
"On August 1st, I announced that I was going to quit liking things on Facebook. At the time, I simply stated that I no longer wanted to be as active a participant in teaching Facebook how to advertise to me as I had been in the past, but another and much larger issue was my real curiosity: how was my Facebook experience going to change once I stopped feeding its engine with likes?"
Morgan discovered that, amongst other things, once he stopped using the 'Like' button, he also stopped receiving most of the dross that had been spoiling his experience of FB. He also found that he started posting more intelligent comments regarding information that he received rather than just clicking 'Like'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23 2014, @02:50PM
I use facebook ONLY for family and close friends, my friends list is less than 25 total. I'm not interested in the "get as many as you can" mentality that most users do, and don't read or post stupid stuff. I have adblock, noscripts, and ghostery to get rid of the crap that takes up the right side of the page. For that it's great, but a few days ago I saw an (uncensored and full) video of some cops shooting down an armed suspect on facebook, didn't think it was appropriate and reported it as graphic violence to get it removed. Facebook reviewed it and said it was OK. WTF?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23 2014, @03:07PM
This is the video I reported as violent content that facebook said was OK. What do you think? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=670841776267356 [facebook.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 23 2014, @06:08PM
Eh
(1) Videos on facebook don't auto-play so it isn't so in your face.
(2) It is a fake. It is a police training video. Note the camera-work. It is shakey-cam, but it zooms in and out. That never happens with bodycams and is implausible for a phone-cam in the heat of the moment like that.
I think the fact that it is a fake says 100x more about the "pro-cop" people than it says about the "pro-accountability" people. While the intent of the video is to teach cops to be careful, the message that comes across is you are better off shooting first and asking questions later.
(Score: 1) by Kunasou on Saturday August 23 2014, @06:34PM
Interesting, I do the same but I use a separate profile of Palemoon with cookies blocked (only facebook.com allowed), ghostery, adblock edge and privacy badger. It was just an experiment but I liked it.