Not sure if many share this view but, I find it disrespectful when people or companies ask you to follow or like them without any emotional connection in place, so to speak.

Especially if you're not offering a single compelling reason, it feels like I'm being taken for a fool.

It's taken out of context heading straight to it though. It's actually only linked to (afaict) as part of one of their portfolio pieces here http://animade.tv/work/smile

It feels creepy and needy. Like the online equivalent of "hey, I know we just had coffee, but I think we should decide how many kids we want to have."

I also don't Facebook will think highly of the fact that they hide the like button once you have pressed it.

I definitely agree and tone plays a huge part in my personal perception of whether it's disrespectful or not.

That being said, I think it speaks to the actual value of likes. Clearly this approach works for some people and they want that number to go up.

It's pretty but it's eating half of my i7 when I move the mouse. I hope rendering gets optimised before every site on the internet does this.

(Ubuntu+Firefox+Nvidia)

I guess I'm slightly confused. When you 'like' this, does it link to this page or the main company site (http://animade.tv/)? Or, is this some sort of "splash" page that you hit from Google? More or less, how does this page get into the user flow?

Make sure you disable Ghostery first!

Quick! They should patent this before Apple does. I call it the "Smiley Like".

This actually brilliant. I'm not sure if I should have a "Like" button on my site, but it is a good idea for other Devs to follow suit. Its just plain fun to see the face go from disgruntled to elated.

I know it's not the case, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only person trying to limit the information Facebook is able to gather about me... I don't put anything in my about section because I don't want to be associated with groups, I don't use like buttons, and I rarely tag posts/people.

Love this, always great to see creative agencies pioneering new methods of building engagement for their own brand... I doubt it will be long until this kind of interactive encouragement will be seen a lot more.

I dont like them though.

It's a really bad way to handle revisiting users.

Once you like the page and revisit the page, it does not detect that you've already liked the page.

This is a Facebook limitation.

Now there is an A/B testing approach @patio11 might like to get his teeth into - Emotionally-cued directed navigation.

Brighten up the site as they make progress towards your goals (dont have the smiley people on the landing page, have them on the next one)

Move away from the big green buy button, get JS to subtly dim the pallette - can you tip the A/B balance using interactive cues not static changes.

SOunds, creepy now I think of it.