Facebook Tests 'Want' Button To Hoard User Data, Save Its Stock Price 98
colinneagle writes with news that Facebook is beginning to roll out tests of "want" and "collect" buttons in an attempt to bring users and retailers closer together.
"The company is working with Victoria's Secret, Pottery Barn, Michael Kors, Wayfair, Neiman Marcus, Fab.com and Smith Optics. The difference between 'liking' and 'wanting' would be like discovering the holy grail of datamining. Inside Facebook said that although the 'Want' button is different than the Want plugin that developer Tom Waddington noticed in June, the company may eventually offer it as a plugin. Unsurprisingly, Facebook wants to keep people on the site as opposed to leaving to visit Pinterest. Collections will offer retailers a Pinterest-like option to engage buyers, offer users a way to collect images, while also collecting even more data about users. For example, Facebook asks, 'Why are you collecting this?' Regardless of a user's answer, the wants and collects will surely be used to deliver targeted ads. Eventually, the Collections feature could help Facebook generate more revenue."
FUCK YOU (Score:5, Funny)
Give me a fucking 'dislike' button already, you shitheads!
Re:FUCK YOU (Score:5, Funny)
So, you should "want" images of your "dislike" button!
2 birds, one stone!
Yay! (Score:2, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new (?) datamining overlords.
Come on, this is making it too easy for dataming as a profession. This isn't even mining, this is being handed little golden chunks, the only thing left for facebook to do is to raise it up and gleefully say "Look what I have!"
I know a lot people are really concerned about corporations connecting your consumer/personal dots and figuring out some Deep Secrets, but go look at what google thinks you are interested in (without signing into your google account) and then sign into your google account and look again. It's not all that different - in my case anyway.
Google: I am not into reality shows, when you get around to mining this. xoxox, brian
awesome (Score:4, Funny)
When this hits I am totally going to log in to a fake account and click want on dilldo's and refried beans, nothing else
the potential for hilarity is enormous (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine for a moment, the profoundly funny and silly trends that could run from clicking "want" on simple, stark statements, like:
Privacy
Responsibility in Industry and Politics
Or even just silly stuff, "celebrities eating hotdogs"
Re:awesome (Score:4, Funny)
Oh I think you are on to something. If I join you and a bunch of others in Operation Dildo Want, we can finally convince Nintendo to make a WarioWare ShoveItUpYourAssGame [youtube.com] for the WiiU (now that the old Wii's sun will soon set). Then, when Platinum Games gets wind of this, their horrified management will cancel their Bayonetta 2 exclusivity plan there [joystiq.com], and they'll move it and the original to, say, Steam where I can buy 'em for the PC!
...what!? I can dream! About the games...and her butt [flickr.com]...and they've been kinda talking about it too... [theverge.com]
Re:And Then There's World Hunger (Score:4, Funny)
i used to get similar results but that is because i marked all of the ads as "sexually explicit". for a while i didn't have any ads now i don't because of adblock and noscript
Re:FUCK YOU (Score:5, Funny)
My new antisocial network (Score:5, Funny)
Has no Like, +1, or Want button. It does have "-1", "Dislike" and "Do Not Want". If you were to post something, it would delete your post and insult you. However, it doesn't matter because it doesn't accept registrations (either gives server down errors or captchas with symbols not in unicode), so it's all academic anyway.