{"id":28561,"date":"2010-08-18T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T08:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fake-facebook-%e2%80%9cdislike%e2%80%9d-button-leads-to-more-dislike-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T08:11:38","slug":"fake-facebook-%e2%80%9cdislike%e2%80%9d-button-leads-to-more-dislike-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fake-facebook-%e2%80%9cdislike%e2%80%9d-button-leads-to-more-dislike-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Fake Facebook \u201cDislike\u201d Button Leads to More Dislike | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"facebook\"<\/a>They only wanted to show their disapproval. Friends eager to counterbalance all those Facebook “Likes” rushed to “Download the official DISLIKE button now” as received in a message. But, sadly, no dislike button was in store. Instead, installing the application provided users with several surveys and left their profiles vulnerable to spammer control. If there was ever a time to unleash their Dislike, this was it.<\/p>

Yet, as Graham Cluley of the security firm Sophos told<\/a> the BBC–mentioning a similar ploy that offered Facebookers the chance to see an anaconda vomiting up a hippo–such “survey scam” applications are nothing new:<\/p>

“Anyone can write a Facebook app–these scams are constantly springing up.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

Perhaps Facebook should take note: Users were willing to sacrifice their security for the mere power to express negative feedback. Or, at least, the mere power to express negative feedback without typing.<\/p>

Perhaps a compromise is in order? Unfortunately, a new Meh button application<\/a> seems to need some tweaking. As in the Atlantic Wire<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>

Turns out, every time you click the “meh” button it registers your vote—allowing an individual user to “meh” something 10,000 times or more. That’s a lot of indifference.<\/p><\/blockquote>

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Image: Facebook<\/em><\/p>

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