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Tina, we have no intention to put up "like" buttons only the links on the top of the page

Although, this is something that might be concerning:

From FB Terms of Use

Special Provisions Applicable to Social Plugins

If you include our Social Plugins, such as the Share or Like buttons on your website, the following additional terms apply to you:

We give you permission to use Facebook's Social Plugins so that users can post links or content from your website on Facebook.

You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on Facebook.

Lisbeth wrote:Tina, we have no intention to put up "like" buttons only the links on the top of the page

Hi Lisbeth ,the like buttons are part of the linking process of the modification .There would be a like and share option to link to the topic.

Flutterby wrote:Although, this is something that might be concerning:

From FB Terms of Use

Special Provisions Applicable to Social Plugins

If you include our Social Plugins, such as the Share or Like buttons on your website, the following additional terms apply to you:

We give you permission to use Facebook's Social Plugins so that users can post links or content from your website on Facebook.

You give us permission to use and allow others to use such links and content on Facebook.

Maybe I am reading it wrong its just saying that if you add the features (like & share) you will be sharing information onto FaceBook which can then be used .I feel that this is the expected behavior of this functionality . Its really nothing different from allowing the google bot to index the forums .Those links are shared with anyone who uses google to search for any topic header or keyword on the forum .

Tina wrote:

RogerFraser wrote:I don't see any negatives personally but I guess am used to the formats of both technologies and think they can be used together to grow the forums reach .I think there may be some members who are not sure or exposed to the social media platforms that may fear change but in reality if you don't want to share anything you don't have to click on the share button on the forum you can still use the forum the same way as you do now .

Actually, I don’t think that this is correct.

SANPforum introduced the like button and as part of the discussion some legal implications came up which caused the withdrawal of it. Please, check this topic
Facebook like button

Hi Tina

I don't think it was the legal discussion causing SPF to remove it .It was removed as the members were against it being implemented without discussion :

Hi all,
Due to general discontent with regard to this new feature, we have decided to remove it indefinitely.
Thanks

There have been a number of detailed online discussions around the use of IP and copyright in social media especially facebook.I dont intend to go through them all .The basic end result of it is even if your image or other IP is posted onto a social media platform it in no way removes your copyright to that IP but the organisation may in some instances use that media for their own promotion .As I understand it it would not be facebook selling your IP they may have a top trending image or place it higher up in rankings to promote their platform .These organisations are after all for profit so they need to promote their platforms as much as possible too.

Some reading :

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/01/w ... dition025/
https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms
http://digital.community-journalism.net ... story-with
http://gawker.com/5963225/that-facebook ... sharing-it

This functionality also does not change the fact that I can copy a forum post url and paste it into Facebook already and do the exact same as the button .The posts are public domain once posted so the link can be shared manually already the button just makes it simpler to do .

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Another interesting point of the SPF discussion the like and share options are only sharing links to the forum not the actual content .So to access the content a FB user has to come back to the forum to actually access the information .

Thanks, Roger! I think the SPf facebook page has a whole different set of issues...

I often paste links to the forum on the AW FB page, don't seem to have been any problems yet.

So, we got 7 votes for sharing forum content on social media and 3 against it.

Don't forget the 6 votes for "either way"

Why are you ?