- Step 1: edit your profile
- Step 2: view your list of likes
- Step 3: Show more pages (liked pages, rather than those added via your profile)
- Step 4: Remove the offending page
That's it! Your profile will no longer be linked with the fanpage or app!
This week nearly 20,000 Facebook users were duped into 'liking' a rogue fanpage called 'The argument that disproves atheism'.
Like many other users, I clicked on the link that appeared in my newsfeed, mainly due to curiosity at what had come over my friend to post such a link.
A sizeable group of us were caught out, suddenly and inexplicably 'liking' a fanpage without the usual button-clicking. Just clicking a normal looking link seemed to be enough, which has scary implications for Facebook's 'social graph', if it can be gamed so easily.
Fortunately, while people might have difficulty removing the notification of the 'like', it's simple enough to remove the application from your profile altogether.
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Kelsey
Kelsey Brookes is a professional designer, online strategist and writer.
From the late 90s Kelsey managed the multimedia and film courses at the prestigious Computer Graphics College, Sydney and eventually founded the Melbourne chapter of the college.
At the same time, Kelsey was a feature writer for Digital Media World magazine, interviewing subjects from the Australian and overseas film and production industries.
Since 1999 Kelsey has managed thinksync, providing design, online strategy and marketing services to clients around Australia.
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