{"id":2729,"date":"2012-05-03T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2012-05-03T12:38:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:38:06","slug":"dear-facebook-liking-is-not-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/dear-facebook-liking-is-not-following\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Facebook, &#8220;Liking&#8221; is not &#8220;Following&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook plays it really shady with it&#8217;s &#8220;Like&#8221; button on their inner &#8220;Pages&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/dear_facebook_liking_is_not_following.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everywhere on the net their like buttons just help quantify empathy towards content, however, when it comes to &#8220;Liking&#8221; a Facebook page, what you&#8217;re doing is really &#8220;Following&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be surprised if you get more &#8220;followers&#8221; on Facebook, yet the rate of losing them is also faster. It&#8217;s all based on user experience deception. C&#8217;mon Zuck, of all companies Facebook doesn&#8217;t need to be so cheap.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite worrying what is going to happen to Facebook once it goes public if it&#8217;s already acting so cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook plays it really shady with it&#8217;s &#8220;Like&#8221; button on their inner &#8220;Pages&#8221;. Everywhere on the net their like buttons just help quantify empathy towards content, however, when it comes to &#8220;Liking&#8221; a Facebook page, what you&#8217;re doing is really &#8220;Following&#8221;. Don&#8217;t be surprised if you get more &#8220;followers&#8221; on Facebook, yet the rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife","category-opinions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-I1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1901,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/facebook-brings-me-12-times-more-visits-than-twitter\/","url_meta":{"origin":2729,"position":0},"title":"Facebook brings me 12 times more visits than Twitter","author":"gubatron","date":"April 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night I saw this on my blog and other pages where I have Google Analytics installed to be let down by the amount of visitors that come from links seeded in Twitter feeds. 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