DISQUS

Kiran · 11 months ago

Copying is never good. However, if they do end up copying I rather have the same terminology. FF has likes for news feeds and
messages. I was recently wondering if twitter will ever get a similar feature http://www.kiranslog.com/where-is-digg-for-tweets

Craig · 11 months ago

I like the word "like". It's straightforward and you can't really copyright it.
If there are synonyms to 'like' that convey the same meaning then use them -- otherwise ain't nothing wrong with copying something like that.

Anrkist · 11 months ago

I've got shoes older than those guys.

Roger · 11 months ago

Great info on that!

Ben Parr · 11 months ago

It's just smart of Facebook, really. Simple feature, very likely to be used heavily. THe quesiton is whether likes will bump up a news feed story like it does with FF.

Maria Popova · 11 months ago

Why is everyone forgetting that when Facebook first launched newsfeed, there used to be a Digg-like thumbs-up/thumbs-down voting system? They took that away a few months later, but it was there in the first place – so Facebook seems to simply be resurrecting it in a new incarnation. Sure, a marginally ripped off one, but still an iteration of an old feature they used to have.

Either way, it's clearly a need-driven addition. As people start to use the status update feature more and more, some even as a substitute for Twitter, there's "friend data overload" – it'll be neat to have a way for controlling the kind of information you're shown in the future, almost like choosing whom to follow on Twitter. Not everyone who's a "friend" or even an interesting person makes for interesting updates.

nerdalert (Selli) · 11 months ago

I seriously can't understand the hype that still exists around facebook.
I found a site www.sevenload.co.uk where you can upload your own content, share it
and join groups etc. Its easier to manage friends and theres branded shows included!

anon · 11 months ago

Is it really shocking that Facebook copied something? Almost every feature of their site is a copy of something else.

Gadgets · 11 months ago

Facebook copying ideas!! :o Now that is surprising what i read and always knew was like facebook is the only social networking site who applies their own ideas and views!

Fabio Turel · 10 months ago

This specific
feature looks
similar indeed, but
Facebook and
Friendfeed have a
radically different
nature in my
opinion: FB
concentrates all the
activity "inside",
while FF gives an
account of the
"networked
identity". Where
does the "like"
feature make more
sense? It probably
depends on the
personal mix of
different social
networking services
managed by each
single person.

Ted · 10 months ago

This isn't competing with friendfeed, they're probably just running scared from http://enjoysthin.gs (wink, wink)

Richard · 10 months ago

Yeah, copying is bad, like that bad Microsoft copying Apple and building the largest empire on earth....wake up and smell the competition...Look what whining did to Apple - They have all but left the computer industry