You have probably noticed little Facebook “Like” buttons appearing on more and more web sites recently. With the addition of this feature, Facebook is obviously trying to compete with Digg, the popular “social bookmarking”/”social news” site launched in 2004.

Facebook has a considerably larger community than Digg so the “Like” function may very well eclipse the near-ubiquitous Digg button.

But here’s the problem. While Digg can be read as an approving “dig”– e.g. “I dig it, daddy-o”– it is more ambiguous than that. People have come to understand, I think, that Digging does not imply they support the actual news or opinion contained in the Dugg article. Rather, it indicates they they find it newsworthy or curious.

Meanwhile, Facebook’s answer to Digg is the unambiguous “Like.” Look no further than this article from TMZ today to understand how that could go wrong…

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I guess Facebook is done screwing around– no more subtly targeted, tastefully composed ads on the margin.

Moments ago, a simple search yielded this clusterfuck of entirely impertinent garbage. I think even MySpace would be ashamed to render a page thusly:

SEE ALSO: Bad Friendster. Bad.

From the Onion piece, “American Muslims To Fort Hood Shooter: ‘Thanks A Lot, Asshole.’”

FORT HOOD, TX—Following Army psychologist Nidal Malik Hasan’s shooting rampage on the Fort Hood military base last week that left 13 people dead and 30 others injured, fellow Muslims across the nation sent him a message today, saying “thanks a fucking bunch, asshole,” to the 39-year-old killer. “Hey, great, eight years of progress right down the shitter,” St. Cloud, MN resident Zahida Naseem said at one of dozens of impromptu rallies held nationwide. “And you just had to scream ‘Allahu Akbar’ while you did it, didn’t you? May as well have put on a turban and rode a fucking camel right through the army base, you dick. Thanks for making the foreseeable future a living hell for normal, peace-loving Muslims in this country. Really appreciate it!” American Sikhs are also reportedly enraged with Hasan, and an official statement from the National Sikh Heritage Center read, in part, “look, we got nothing to do with that guy.”

I still love the Onion, but why even bother making this joke? Besides being awkwardly PC and devoid of any humorous content, it’s completely incongruous to their almost nihilistic satirical assault on everything else in the world.