Monday, February 14, 2011

App Filters What Pages You’ve “Liked” On Facebook: Why Isn’t This A Facebook Feature?


The meaning of a Facebook Like has been getting more and more vague ever since Facebook changed the wording from “Become a fan” to “Like” on Facebook Fan Pages. What’s even more frustrating than this is that there’s no simple way, aside from visiting the “Activities,” “Interests” and “Other Pages” part of your Facebook profile, to figure out what Pages you have liked in the past.

In essence: It’s complicated.

As many Pages employ tactics in order to “force” people to like stuff (in order to access content for example), it’s about time users had a simple way to view and manage what they’ve Liked, especially as the new Facebook “Sponsored Story” features cull information from your Likes in order to show ads to your friends.

As rough and scrappy as it is, the MyLikesBox Facebook app shows you the Pages you’ve Liked, lets you sort by them category and allows you easily remove Pages you’d like to un-Like (Note: webpages that use Open Graph tags also show up as Likes, because Facebook holds them equivalent to Pages).

I have no idea why Facebook has yet to build something like this, especially as Like button use becomes a more and more predominant marker of brand engagement. And while I wish the MyLikesBox tracking was more comprehensive than just Facebook Pages, i.e. it showed me every article and status update and person I have ever liked, Pages is a good start, for now.

Proof: Through the use of MyLikesBox, I have un-Liked at least two pages I hadn’t really meant to Like. Like.

You can try out the app here.

3 comments:

  1. Seriously? FB already has something built like this...

    -->EDIT PROFILE-->ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

    If nothing shows up go to -->SHOW OTHER PAGES

    Voila, your list of likes where you can remove at your discretion.

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  2. well... it takes forever to do so on facebook. This App just make it for you. another thing is - ever wanted to go directly to a page and could not remember the name of it? this app is great for that

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  3. I've been using Better Facebook for ages. That has filters and lots more features besides!

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