Facebook recycling your "likes" to promote stories you've never seen.

I have suspected something like this was happening for awhile. Lots of commercial stuff "promoted" by my friends (and probably by me as well) that they are probably unaware of.

To follow the election results, I put on Sirius/XM OutQ at 8:00 for Michelangelo Signorile's coverage. Around 9:00, I also got on Facebook, where friends updated statuses with things like "Pennsylvania goes to Obama!" and I occasionally got on CNN to refresh their electoral map. (Facebook and Twitter are really fun ways to follow live events, ( Read more... )

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Fox News, aka Romney election headquarters, does its usual song and dance to put a positive light on Romney's insult to 47% of US citizens.

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Parody called "If I Add You." Pretty funny!

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I'd been following the faux "lesbian blogger" story, but I hadn't heard the latest.

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I unfriended someone on Facebook who said something was "so gay." Bitch justified it by saying that everyone in her generation does it. Yeah, that's a good reason.

And I don't need someone I barely know who basically tells me that I don't get it because I'm an old fart. Fuck you.

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So, two of my friends are fighting with Facebook to get their accounts reinstated because they have been accused of using “fake names,” which they are not ( Read more... )

Just some thoughts brewing in my mind, based on the postings of several people over the past few weeks.

With alabastard's permission, I'm quoting his $0.02 because it's basically my opinion, too:

"Our home is here on LJ, and here We will stay, refusing to flail and bail every time an issue comes up, We'd rather stand up and help set things right. We ( Read more... )