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	Subject:	The Unlike Button
	Date:	7/21/2010 9:50:12 AM (updated 7/21/2010 10:14:55 AM)

There is nothing that ties a "Like" to a forum member alias. I suppose it may be shocking to read full names on the forum and see photos, but the name and profile photo only shows to people that are your Facebook friend. So when you see that it says "Bruce Pate and 3 others like this", that means that I am your friend and the three others that like it are not your Facebook friend (so you don't know who they are). The only thing I can think of that may not be desired is if you wanted to hide your participation on this site to your friends, in which case you wouldn't be clicking a Facebook button.

As for the suggested display of totals, that functionality is not included in the Facebook API. Bascially, the "Like" is tied to the specific URL of the post. We should put a "Like" button on the "View Entire Thread" page too but that is a different URL, so we could not add the "like" totals for a thread including the individual post page "likes".

If someone does not have a Facebook account, what happens is that they go to the Facebook site and they have the option of creating a Facebook account. That is the trade-off, and one of many clever ways Facebook has acquired a half billion active users. I can say years ago I had similar ideas for a site like Facebook that centralized on cities, but my experience with this forum (people wanting to use aliases) made me think that such a thing would never be widely accepted. The mass buy-in of the "Friend" concept and blocking personal content from the public is what made Facebook successful. But they never could have pulled that off without publicizing people's real names and faces.

Now, I think I'm more confused than I've probably made you.