Facebook feeds are always full of funny, heart touching,
emotional posts from different kind of pages. The author encourages you to like
the page to show your support. And at times we also click like on the page to
support our cause, to show our liking for a celebrity, movie etc. Little do we
wonder that we are providing our details to people who can sell it and exploit
it for advertising.
Lets see how
people do business by exploiting our emotions.
Step1: The first step is to create a page giving it an
attractive name. Most of the time people target on humor or an emotional point.
Let say we created a humor page titled “I am too lazy to type”.
Step2: Next is to post interesting comments. Google a bit
about humor and you will get plenty of jokes and funny pictures. Creativity is
very important for the competition has increased. You need to lure people to
like you page.
Step3: With a good amount of subscribers to your page you
are ready to cash it. Now all you need is a buyer for your page who can use
this page to post advertisements. Go to any freelancer website and its flooded
with buyers request.
Step4: Once the page is sold to a buyer he can simply edit
the title and content of the page. “I am too lazy to type” has now become “XYZ
company”. And you are flooded with advertisement that you did not subscribe
for.
So what do we do about it?
The best thing will be to not to like pages at all. But that
is not going to happen and we will like pages. This is what facebook is all
about right?
So what we need to do is be a little cautious about the
pages that we like. You can see the pages liked by you in your profile.
The Pages that you like show at the bottom of the Info tab, under
Activities and Interests.
If you see any pages that you did not like or don’t like any
more you can unlike them.
You
can unlike a Page by taking the following steps:
1.
Find
the post in your profile (timeline) that states you like the Page or find a
post from the Page in your News Feed.
2.
Click
the "x" located in the top right hand side of the post.
3.
From
the drop-down menu, click "Unlike Page."
You can also navigate to the Page by entering its name into the search bar in the upper right corner, and click the "Unlike" link located on the lower left hand side of the screen.
