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Deceiving users with the Facebook Like button


From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:22:28 +0300 (EEST)

"Facebook just launched a super-easy widget called "The Facebook Like Button". Website owners can add a simple iframe  
snippet to their html,
enabling a nice "Like" button with a count of other people's "Likes" and a list of faces of people if any of them are 
your friends.
The advantage of this new tool is that you don't need any fancy coding. Just fill up a simple wizard ,
and paste the embed code in, just like you do with Youtube, etc.

However, this simplicity has a cost: Users can be tricked into "Like"ing pages they're not at."
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http://arnab.org/blog/deceiving-users-facebook-button
 
Juha-Matti
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