Useless WordPress Like Button Is For Spammers - Why Can't It Be 100% Disabled?
WordPress Needs To Let Users Disable The WordPress Like Button 100%
WordPress Needs To Remove This
Alrighty then! So, it seems like my posts have been getting a bunch of love lately. I mean, loads of people seem to be hitting that little old 'like' button. Now, you might think, "What's the big deal? Isn't that a good thing?" Well, it would be if folks were actually, ya know, reading my posts and genuinely liking 'em. Instead, it feels like they're just on some kind of clicking spree, hitting 'like' on every single post that pops up on the WordPress Reader. Geez, talk about a like-clicking frenzy! But hey, I guess some attention is better than no attention, right? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ NOPE!
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What Is "Like Farming" And Should I Be Worried? Getting 100s Of "Post Likes" But No Actual "Post Views"
Why Are People Liking My Blog Posts Without Opening 1 Single Post?
People may be liking your blog posts without opening the page for several reasons. One possible reason is that they may have seen your post title or featured image on their WordPress Reader feed or on social media and found it interesting or relevant, so they liked it without actually reading the full post.
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I bet you have seen on your Facebook News Feed someone sharing a link or Facebook page or photo like the one below, urging you to share or ‘like’ the post:
You may click ‘like’ or share the link on the basis of trying to do some good or perhaps out of sympathy or guilt from being unable to do anything to help except click ‘like’. Those with common sense will know that you do NOT save a child’s life by ‘liking’ a Facebook post or sharing the post. But it’s not just such posts, there also other kinds of conning posts, such as:
“My friend Sarah doesn’t think she’s beautiful. ‘Like’ to show her that she’s beautiful.”
“My husband said he’d stop smoking if this gets 10,000 shares.”
“Like if you hate cancer!”
It’s not just liking and sharing either. There are other posts ask you to partake in different ways, for instance:
“Name a city without an ‘R’ in it. It’s harder than it looks!”
But why do some people create such pages or posts and share them to thousands of people? Is it to sincerely spread a message of good-will or support?
No. It’s simply motivated by one thing and one thing alone:
Money.
What is happening here is termed ‘Like Farming’.
So what is Like Farming exactly?
'Like Farming' Is it when a person or group create a Facebook page with an appeal for a cause or interest for other people to like it and share it amongst their network of friends and family. The people in the creators’ networks like and share this page in their own individual networks and in turn these people ‘like’ and spread the page around Facebook.
Facebook’s automated algorithm (EdgeRank) notices this spiking activity and it works to make sure it’s seen even more due to the popularity of the page. The more people see it, the more people like it, and the more people like it, the more people see it. And before you know it, the page goes viral on Facebook where thousands of people have liked it where the posts from the page permeate through a person’s News Feed.
So what happens next?
The creators sell the Facebook page to a business or advertiser for a significant sum (i.e., profit). The new owner of the page can now send commercial messages to any user who has ‘liked’ the page. In addition, if the post is linked to a website, the creators can collect ad revenue based on the traffic that goes through, traffic of which can be in the millions of visitors per month.
So now that you know, don’t click on such scamming Facebook pages trying to con you into liking their page using some sad story. The story is more than likely untrue where the photo used is probably stolen from someone’s photo album on Facebook or from other places on the internet.
Just simply ignore these scamming pages!
References:
Facebook like-farming: Hit 'Like' and you risk becoming a spam magnet
Think Before You Like: “Like Farming” and the World of Facebook Spam
