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Tell HN: Facebook Secretly Liked a Page for Me
1 point by Casseres on Oct 22, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
My Facebook account has been disabled for a few months because of their name policy, but I finally was able to clear that up a few days ago. One of the things I did when re-accessing my account was to review what very few pages I "like" and "follow".

Today, I just noticed that one of my "likes" is for CBSN. I checked the Activity Log and it reads that I "liked" that page last night a minute before I made a comment on a friend's picture.

I was not inebriated from anything at that time. I don't see how I could have possibly, accidentally clicked on like for that page.

I always view my Timeline in "most recent" mode, and I checked back to see if there were any CBSN posts on my Timeline near that time, there were not.

I've found "likes" in the past on my profile for companies I do not like, but this is the first time I've caught such a discrepancy so quickly.

It shows that I "liked" it, but that I am not "following" it. When you like something, you automatically follow it. My guess is it when Facebook set my profile to "like" it, they made sure that I wasn't "following" it so that I would be less likely to notice.




Do you use the mobile web version? I did exactly that when using the web version on iOS (chrome specifically). Scrolling down the page ended up with me accidentally hitting like on a number of various posts the feed.


I was using the desktop version on Opera on an Android tablet at that time. I've never accidentally opened links while scrolling before, so I highly doubt that is what caused it.

Even so, how would that cause me to "like" it, but not "follow" it (which is a default function of "liking" a page)?




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