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broggyr [reversethis-{moc.liamg} {ta} {ryggorb}] 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?"

https://medium.com/@schmutzie/i-quit-liking-things-on-facebook-for-two-weeks-heres-how-it-changed-my-view-of-humanity-29b5102abace [medium.com]

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