Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time

Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by Lagged2Death on Sunday November 11, 2012 @05:52PM (#4770858)

I think it's astonishingly cowardly, sheeplike, and maybe even un-American to curate your "likes" this way, just to disassociate yourself with a loser. If your convictions mean anything -- that is to say, if you have any -- then why would you change the public picture of them like this?

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by celoyd on Sunday November 11, 2012 @05:58PM (#4770870)

A Facebook “like” doesn’t just mean you like something; it means at least one of at least these options:

1. You like it.

2. You understand that “likes” are used by advertisers, distributors, etc., to track brand popularity, so you clicked like to support something that you might not personally like. (I’ve done this with, for example, friends’ projects that are of no actual interest to me.)

3. You want to see its updates. (I have a leftist friend who likes to keep an eye on the right wing and “liked” Romney on Facebook for exactly this reason, even though it’s essentially a “dislike”.)

There are probably a couple others. Peer pressure, for example? Besides which, I think it’s fair to withdraw a like from something if you believe it’s outlived its usefulness. If I’d “liked” a ballot measure that failed to pass, for example, I don’t think it would be in any way dishonorable to stop following it now, even if I still completely supported its aims.

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by hemancuso on Sunday November 11, 2012 @06:21PM (#4770952)

This is a ridiculous arguement. You must have a lot of old bumperstickers on you car.

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by beedogs on Sunday November 11, 2012 @07:26PM (#4771109)

Or, like most people with any taste, none at all.

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by Zenst on Sunday November 11, 2012 @08:03PM (#4771179)

I don't even have a car, guess I'm tasteless :(.

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by beedogs on Sunday November 11, 2012 @08:14PM (#4771205)

me either, actually. living in Melbourne sort of obviates the need for a car about 95% of the time.

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by Zenst on Sunday November 11, 2012 @08:24PM (#4771224)

True, if somebody called Levi, Wrangler or even Nike stood for election they would do better in such area's I suspect with this bumper sticker logic.

Now if only he was called Nike Romney and had a logo like the Nike sign, he may of done exactly the same.

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by humbyvaldes on Sunday November 11, 2012 @06:27PM (#4770962)

Victory has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by lukevdp on Sunday November 11, 2012 @07:05PM (#4771051)

Maybe they're not interested in following the page anymore because it is no longer relevant

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Re:Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time by ptrwtts on Sunday November 11, 2012 @05:55PM (#4770862)

or maybe they only paid the bots to stick around until the election...

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