Why do people accept this from Facebook? It has to be one of the more annoying and overdone companies out there. It’s going to be enjoyable to see them hit their Myspace or Netscape moment when they become irrelevant.

Facebook users who check in to a store or click the “like” button for a brand may soon find those actions retransmitted on their friends’ pages as a “Sponsored Story” paid for by advertisers.

Currently there is no way for users to decline this feature.

Facebook says this lets advertisers promote word-of-mouth recommendations that people already made on the site. They play up things people do on the site that might get lost in the mass of links, photos, status updates and other content users share on the world’s largest social network.