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Man tries ‘liking’ literally everything on Facebook for 2 days and the results were horrifying

12
Aug
2014

Scrolling through a Facebook news feed can be a depressing experience. From the countless ads to the naive friends sharing links to Onion articles they think are real, it never feels safe to stay logged on for too long lest you lose your mind. But what if you dedicated two days of your life to liking everything on Facebook? How would your friends react and how would your account begin to morph? That’s exactly what Mat Honan set out to discover in a piece for Wired, and the results are about as grim as you’d expect. The first thing he liked was LivingSocial, the popular local deals website that operates similarly to Groupon. Next he liked two innocuous updates from friends, but

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