When Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a “Like” button that publishers could place on their Web pages, he predicted it would make the Web smarter and “more social.” What ...

Facebook is killing off two external social plugins, the FB Like button and the FB Comment button. Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyImages It's the end of a major ...

The Facebook Like button is one of the most recognizable symbols on social media — a small blue thumbs-up that has shaped how people express appreciation online. But soon, it will be gone from a big ...

Meta just dropped a bombshell on developers and nostalgic web surfers: the classic Facebook “Like” and “Comment” plugins for third-party sites are toast. Come February 10, 2026, these relics from the ...

When was the last time you clicked the Like button on some piece of content outside of Facebook, causing anyone who sees your Facebook activity to see your little recommendation in their news feed?

It was summer 2007. Facebook was three years old and growing at a heady pace. Originally for college students, it had opened to the public the previous fall. Now it had 30 million users. What it ...