Source: Facebook To Launch Read, Listened, Watched, And Want Buttons

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/19/facebooks-new-buttons/

by jmjerlecki • 15 years ago

26 16 15 years ago

Nevermind the buttons: that Facebook is launching new graph verbs makes their graph exponentially more interesting

dwack• 15 years ago

Unclear how this will play out. The decision to 'like' is more complex. What if you read text and watch a video? Which button do you click? I understand this generates more data - and that's the real power, but the LIKE has already become so ubiquitous.

LeafStorm2• 15 years ago

Probably, the developer will add whichever button of Like, Read, Watched, Listened makes the most sense for the content.

As for the ubiquity of Like, the new buttons will probably look like a Like button, and probably use an icon from the Facebook interface. That should help people make the connection to Facebook.

spdy2• 15 years ago

Yeah i see how this will play out. Now we have 2-3 Buttons per item just for facebook. Because you can read something and like it aswell as want/watch it.

More buttons higher pageloads because not many sites use the 2-click versions yet.

Maybe someone should rethink the overall share model and find a new way to do it. Over time there will be more and more buttons all over the place.

damncabbage• 15 years ago

Unfortunately, I can see Digital Agencies and SEO Specialists recommending (and clients of both requesting) a slather of buttons for every conceivable type of Like on the off chance that someone actually clicks one.

I don't mean to point fingers, but I don't think this sort of thing is going to get any better: http://i.imgur.com/VeUr1.png

cwilson• 15 years ago

If you read the post carefully there is actually no mention of developer access to these buttons. Obviously it might be the case, but all the text says is that you'll be able to click one of those actions in your feed. This makes more sense to me. You're responding to someone else's like.

dannyr• 15 years ago

"Want" button is interesting. If you are an advertiser, you can target users on Facebook who has an intent to purchase a specific product.

jerrya• 15 years ago

[More cowbell] jerrya [wants] this button. jerrya [read] this comment. jerrya [liked] this comment.

gdulli• 15 years ago

Most importantly: will I be able to adblock these as easily as the like button?

juanipis• 15 years ago

and i'll have a "yeah, right" button in my browser

RockerCoder• 15 years ago

This is just stupid, there's no value to the users whatsoever It's just a hoop they'll try to push down the users throat to make more ad money

People are not stupid, this won't catch

Also, facebook is getting all bloated

codexon• 15 years ago

I added Facebook like to a website that gets about 5,000 views per day.

After a month no one clicked one, and it slowed down the website even though it was loaded asynchronously after the page was done loading. It took on average 500 ms to load according to Firebug, and sometimes it even timed out, leaving an ugly error message where the iframe was.

sek• 15 years ago

That is the big announcement on the Developer conference?

A little disappointing. This will be moderately successful, because all the People will put it next to their like button.

The Like button is used because people like to give active statements about something. I don't have any data about this, but i assume the usage is declining because there is no real benefit for liking something.

Where is the benefit for clicking Read, or Watched? They will probably argue "Sharing", but there are already too much Kitten videos on Facebook.

What happened to the Social Graph from the last f8? There were some big buzzwords like "everything is connected" , but i still don't see what changed since then.

They have so many brilliant Developers.

The best thing i can remember is HipHop for PHP and the Open Compute project.

They don't really try anything out of their comfort zone. The whole Deals thing got almost no promotion, was introduced silently and disappeared silently. There were some rumors about a Facebook Phone, that would have been interesting but no...

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