The Dislike Button is Not Here

Kramer — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:46:09 +0000

Last month I wrote about fake “Dislike Button” groups and fan pages and how they were creating spam. Well now is seems this one group called “Dislike Button™ is Finally Here! Add it Now!” keeps popping up in my news feed. At the time of writing the group has 1,239,032 members and is increasing rapidly. The member count keeps increasing because every person that joins the group is following these bogus instructions:

Click 1 ► Join

Click 2 ► Invite People to Join

Click 3 ► Select All Your Friends

Click 4 ► Send Invitations

Click 5 ► Dislike Button™

Obviously after sending the invitations no dislike button will appear, this is where people mostly lack common sense. Since everyone keeps joining the group, I keep seeing it in my news feed because they either accept the invites or go “oh hey yay!” and join it. Even worse, they too invite all their friends. I have reported this group several times, but Facebook as usual does nothing. Hell it lets me report it again after reporting it when usually it doesn’t allow you to, so I doubt they’re getting the report at all.

What are wrong with these kind groups? They create spam in the news feed and requests.

Since I’ve gotten tired of this crap, I’ve been tempted to create this Facebook group called “Your friend and 12 other idiots joined the group Dislike Button…“

Dislike Button on Facebook? O RLY?

Kramer — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:02 +0000

So Facebook has tons of fake group and fan pages cause people can’t get enough attention. Most of them I don’t care but this one I feel like writing about. I start to see my friends joining a group called “DISLIKE BUTTON is finally here– Add it now!” I obviously know the group is fake but I go to check it out anyways.

This group has instructions on how to get a dislike button on Facebook. I know it’s not true, but here are the instructions for supposedly getting a button:

NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT DO EACH STEP CORRECTLY, THIS WILL NOT WORK.

Step 1: Follow this twitter application http://twitter.com/guinnessrecord

Step 2: Click invite people to join!

Step 3: While you have the invitation page up, copy and Paste this script into your address bar EXACTLY AS IT IS and hit enter:

javascript:var numfriends=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’).length;fs.click(document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘a’)[1].parentNode);for(var i=0; i < numfriends; i++){fs.click(document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘a’)[i].parentNode);}

Step 4: Confirm invitations sent.

Step 5: To finally get the dislike button you must then click here- http://tinyurl.com/fbdislikebutton If that link doesn’t work, make sure you thoroughly completed steps 1-4-5.

HINT: If it didn’t work. You didn’t do it right; repeat steps 1-4.

Lets get into detail:

Step 1 is just obviously the user wants more followers on Twitter.
Step 2 is getting people to go to the Invite Friends page.
Step 3 is just executing JavaScript code in order to have everyone on the Invite Friends page to be selected so users don’t waste their time selecting everyone.
Step 4 is sending out the invites to all your friends.
Step 5 goes to http://www.facebook.com, how do I know? It’s called http://preview.tinyurl.com/fbdislikebutton

See, just another fake Facebook group wasting my time and I got gullible friends joining this crap.

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