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Facebook Likes: How to Make Facebook Enjoyable Again

posted by janrinok on Saturday August 23 2014, @04:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-use-it? dept.

broggyr writes:

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'.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Kunasou on Saturday August 23 2014, @06:34PM

    by Kunasou (4148) on Saturday August 23 2014, @06:34PM (#84732)

    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.