what the actual is that facebook like button doing there?

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CarolCervix · 15/12/2011 16:42

i am not liking it. not at all.

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GypsyMoth · 15/12/2011 16:43

Can't see it on mobile site!

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CarolCervix · 15/12/2011 16:44

it is just below the thread title in an ominously obvious place.

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AgnesBligg · 15/12/2011 16:44

ugh. I don't like it.

MNHQ

LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 15/12/2011 16:45

@CarolCervix

has it always been there? or has it moved? and does that mean if someone 'likes' that thread it will be posted to their fb page?

Yes, it does, CarolCervix. All a bit modern, innit?

You don't have to click it if you don't want to, you know

AgnesBligg · 15/12/2011 16:45

I dare someone to press it and come back and tell us what happened to them.

craftyknickers · 15/12/2011 16:45

Thankfully I can't see a like button.

I thought we all established we don't want one?

fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 15/12/2011 16:46

I accidentally clicked one yesterday. Was swiftly deleted from my FB page and cursed appropriately. WHY does every damn article and now thread have a like button? I don't want everyone to know what I'm wasting time doing reading.

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 15/12/2011 16:48

Facebook is the devil.

They said so on the telly.

True fact.

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CarolCervix · 15/12/2011 16:49

so if i do a good long post ranting about my orrible family and someone 'likes' that post it pops up on FB in all its glory for the whole fb world to see?

and therefore makes it even more easier for the worls to work out who i am and even more identifiable?

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Original poster

CarolCervix · 15/12/2011 16:50

and did anyone ever use the smaller more discrete fb button anyway?

I AM NOT LIKING THE BOG OBVIOUS ONE>

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Original poster

CarolCervix · 15/12/2011 16:50

Big. Obviously.

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MNHQ

LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 15/12/2011 16:51

@fuckityfuckfuckfuck

I accidentally clicked one yesterday. Was swiftly deleted from my FB page and cursed appropriately. WHY does every damn article and now thread have a like button? I don't want everyone to know what I'm wasting time doing reading.

It wasn't there yesterday - honest!

MNHQ

LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 15/12/2011 16:52

@CarolCervix

so if i do a good long post ranting about my orrible family and someone 'likes' that post it pops up on FB in all its glory for the whole fb world to see?

and therefore makes it even more easier for the worls to work out who i am and even more identifiable?

No, it doesn't like any posts. It's just for liking the thread.

As in "this is a good thread"

usualsuspect · 15/12/2011 16:53

I pressed it and a thread appeared on my fb page

sassyTHEFIRST · 15/12/2011 16:54

HATE this. HQ, I thought you were better than this.

fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 15/12/2011 16:55

It was! It was on a competition page, I entered and accidentally clicked the like button. Well, it was some kind of like button, even if it was teeny. I know noone will know who you are, but god, the potential for fallout if you press it accidentally and don't realise is pretty big. Luckily it was just a Ford competition, I realised my stupidity and deleted the link from my wall. But imagine liking a thread about bumsex something mortifying, or personal, or someone else's private thread, and the whole world seeing it. Are there areas where there is no like button so this can;t happen? I'm thinking relationships and bereavement.

LauraIngallsWilder · 15/12/2011 16:55

Horrible idea I agree
I can't see it though - I obviously have inferior vision

WowOoo · 15/12/2011 16:56

Agree, it's tacky. Go away facebook.

santastooearlymustdache · 15/12/2011 16:57

'you don't have to click on it if you don't like it'

red rag/bull anyone!

SanTEEClaus · 15/12/2011 16:57

Actually, I think Cevix is right. If it likes the thread then a link to the thread will be on FB for whoever liked it's FB list to see.

So it does make a person even more searchable than they are just through Google.

But, of course, that person who liked it must have a friend on their FB list who knows Cervix in order for make Cervix known.

Really, must MN follow all the crowds? I like FB but I don't feel the need to like a MN thread to put it on FB.

MNHQ

LittleTownofBethleHelenMumsnet · 15/12/2011 16:57

@fuckityfuckfuckfuck

It was! It was on a competition page, I entered and accidentally clicked the like button. Well, it was some kind of like button, even if it was teeny. I know noone will know who you are, but god, the potential for fallout if you press it accidentally and don't realise is pretty big. Luckily it was just a Ford competition, I realised my stupidity and deleted the link from my wall. But imagine liking a thread about bumsex something mortifying, or personal, or someone else's private thread, and the whole world seeing it. Are there areas where there is no like button so this can;t happen? I'm thinking relationships and bereavement.

Aha! Yes, there are like buttons on Comps pages, I believe.

But the Talk threads like button was only made live a few minutes ago.

And no, there's no like button on threads in 'sensitive' topics, like Bereavement or Relationships and so on.

LauraIngallsWilder · 15/12/2011 16:58

I thought we all agreed a few weeks ago that we hated the idea of a 'like' button - so why gave MNHQ gone ahead anyway?

fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 15/12/2011 16:59

Incidentally, the more people click the 'like' link of the comp pages, the more people will enter presumably, hence the less chance I you will win. Just saying Don't click that like button folks.

SanTEEClaus · 15/12/2011 16:59

Why is there a like button anywhere? Why why why?!?!