Re:I just caught Facebook giving Likes from the unwilling.
by calbear81 on Monday September 16, 2013 @02:27PM
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You can't buy "Likes" on Facebook, you can buy ads that prompt people to "Like" your page but you can't buy them outright. There are some cases where you can't really tell whether you're Liking a friend's "Like" or if you're also Liking what your friend Liked. I'm sure it confuses a lot of people since this whole phantom Like issue has come up frequently and reported by a lot of folks.
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Re:I just caught Facebook giving Likes from the unwilling.
by FamousWarrior on Monday September 16, 2013 @03:04PM
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Apparently you can because i saw her newsfeed and it said that I Liked his page when i never had been to his page before.
Re:I just caught Facebook giving Likes from the unwilling.
by calbear81 on Monday September 16, 2013 @05:46PM
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You can like from within your feed without visiting their page. I think this is what happens a lot (misclick or deception) within the in-feed ads.
Re:I just caught Facebook giving Likes from the unwilling.
by FamousWarrior on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:14PM
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You misunderstand. I never, in the history of ever, clicked Like on any political candidate's page, much less a guy i disagree and dislike.
Re:I just caught Facebook giving Likes from the unwilling.
by Terretta on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @09:29AM
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They're not saying you ever went to a candidates page.
They're saying there was an ad in your own newsfeed you didn't know was an ad. Either a story you liked, or something one of your friends "posted" that you liked, but wasn't really a post, was an ad.