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drm604

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4. "Like" on FB can be ambiguous.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu May 3, 2012, 06:31 PM

May 2012

It could simply mean that you want to follow that page or that you recommend that your friends look at it. It doesn't necessarily mean that you literally like someone or something.

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You Can Be Fired for a Facebook �Like� [View all] kpete May 2012 OP

Does "speech" need to contain a certain number of words before it's judged DisgustipatedinCA May 2012 #1

Nope, only a certain number of $ signs. Just ask Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas. 11 Bravo May 2012 #6

Haven't you heard this is a new area. No one has freedom of speech. southernyankeebelle May 2012 #11

And my friends wonder why I don't do social networking. Initech May 2012 #2

Yup. Iggo May 2012 #5

+ infinity hifiguy May 2012 #12

Yeah the last thing I want is to get fired for liking the wrong like. Initech May 2012 #13

Same here. -..__... May 2012 #9

Idiot decision by the Judge htuttle May 2012 #3

Listen very carefully... Egalitarian Thug May 2012 #19

"Like" on FB can be ambiguous. drm604 May 2012 #4

Which is why "like" was an idiotic word to choose. aquart May 2012 #17

Yeah the problem was liking a facebook page not whistler162 May 2012 #7

Yet another reaason for not even doing Facebook to begin with. nt Speck Tater May 2012 #8

While still a school district employee in a state that banned Marriage Equality, HockeyMom May 2012 #10

So? You can be locked in a room to die for 5 days w no water for smoking pot Warren DeMontague May 2012 #14

+1 Canuckistanian May 2012 #15

Um...then we have no free speech Iris May 2012 #16

Let me be a little more succinct, If you want to maintain any semblance Egalitarian Thug May 2012 #18

Virginia is a "fire-at-will" state. provis99 May 2012 #20