Facebook like button

Facebook features a like button that is also a share icon and web bug, as many like buttons are. It was first activated on February 9, 2009.

Use on Facebook

The like button is a feature of social networking service Facebook, where users can like content such as status updates, comments, photos, links shared by friends, and advertisements. The feature was activated February 9, 2009. It is also a feature of the Facebook Platform that enables participating websites to display a button which enable sharing the site's content with friends. When a user clicks the Like button, the content appears in the News Feeds of that user's friends. The button also displays the number of users that liked each piece of content, and may show a full or partial list of those users. This feature may appear differently on mobile web applications. A "Like Box" also allows Facebook page owners to see how many users and which of their friends like the page. The ability to like users' comments was added in June 2010.

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BBC News 04 Jul 2018

A former Facebook employee made a related point ... "It literally felt like I was quitting cigarettes." ... Leah Pearlman, co-inventor of Facebook's Like button, said she had become hooked on Facebook because she had begun basing her sense of self-worth on the number of "likes" she had. "When I need validation - I go to check Facebook," she said ... But Ms Pearlman said she had not intended the Like button to be addictive....

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Here’s how this move by Apple may hurt Facebook

The Times of India 05 Jun 2018

... the likes of Facebook from tracking you using the like, share and comment buttons ... Federighi said, “We have all seen these like and share buttons, “ clearly hinting at Facebook, before adding, “it turns out these can be used to track you, whether you click on them or not.” In a resounding voice he claimed, “So this year, we are shutting them down.”....

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iOS 12, MacOS Mojave, and more: all the top announcements at the WWDC 2018 keynote

Your Story 05 Jun 2018

From the mobile iOS platform to the TVOS platform driving Apple TV, Apple announced several updates and upgrades, including some to core apps like Siri and Photos ... Apple’s web browser Safari will now, by default, block tracking from comment fields and “share”/“like” buttons, something that will likely not sit well with social media giant Facebook who uses these features to track and collect user behaviour data....

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Apple just took a shot at Facebook’s web-tracking empire

The Verge 04 Jun 2018

How else would Facebook know who liked the post? Even if you don’t click, Facebook registers that you loaded the button, which means they get a map of ......

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Instagram's new mute button lets you hide annoying accounts

TechRadar 22 May 2018

Follow any Instagram accounts that are just plain... Rather than cutting ties by unfollowing these accounts comletely, Instagram is rolling out a mute button, which lets you hide posts from an account for as long as you like ... The new mute button is part of an effort by Facebook-owned Instagram to give you more control over your feed. It's a feature many will likely welcome as it gives more flexibility to who you follow and how....

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Be careful what you share and like on Facebook

Index-Journal 20 May 2018

That’s how many people see you when it comes to what you like and share on Facebook and other social media ... In case you haven’t noticed — or no one has told you — when you click the like button on Facebook, your friends often see the post you liked in their newsfeed ... What you like on Facebook is equivalent to an endorsement. Before you click the like ......

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Facebook dating app: Company wants to help users find love

The Post-Standard 02 May 2018

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Facebook's mission to connect people now includes helping them date

The Keene Sentinel 02 May 2018

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Facebook expands downvote tests on comments

Crunch 01 May 2018

This particular trial of upvoting/downvoting buttons is limited to New Zealand and Australia for now, according to Facebook (via The Guardian) ... Facebook emphasized the feature is not an official dislike button ... It’s likely Facebook is toying with using comment rating buttons to encourage a more broad crowdsourcing effort to help it with the myriad, complex content moderation challenges associated with its platform....

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Facebook’s mission to connect people now includes helping them date

The Washington Post 01 May 2018

Facebook’s tracking cookie works differently from other ad networks in that it exists in the form of the Facebook “like” button. People can click on the like button on different websites, and the content they “liked” will appear in the news feeds of their Facebook friends, and displays other users who have “liked” the content. Behind the scenes, the like button also works like any other cookie....

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Social media is vulnerable

Custer County Chronicle 26 Apr 2018

Facebook, which was developed by Zuckerberg in his college dorm room, has revolutionized how people connect with one another ... People have the ability to share a wide variety of content on Facebook ... If you’re viewing this online, there’s likely a button that would allow you to quickly share it with your Facebook community ... Americans who use Facebook....

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Facebook warns GDPR could flatten or reduce European user count

Crunch 25 Apr 2018

A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes ... Meanwhile, it minimized the size and visual prominence of the buttons to revoke permissions from Facebook or reject the changes outright and terminate their account. Facebook was likely trying to minimize the disruption to the user experience and thereby its user count with this shady design methodology ... Read our full story on Facebook’s Q1 2018 earnings.....

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What did we learn from the Congressional Facebook hearing?

Orange County Register 19 Apr 2018

Zuckerberg stammered when asked if he thought users knew that Facebook logged their Facebook likes on pages and sites outside Facebook itself — because the existence of those buttons made it inherently obvious that Facebook’s basic functionality logically extends Facebook to wherever its users go....

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