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Facebook Advertisers To Use ‘Likes’

Facebook users who check in to a store or "like" a brand may soon find those actions re-transmitted on their friends' pages as a "Sponsored Story" paid for by advertisers. Currently there is no way for users to decline this feature. Facebook says this lets advertisers promote word-of-mouth recommendations that people already made on the site. The new, promoted posts would keep the same privacy setting that the original posting had. But involving users in advertisements without their consent has been a thorny for Facebook/Associated Press. More here. (AP file photo of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg) H-T: Trish Gannon

Question: Will this new Facebook intrusion prevent you from clicking 'like' now?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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