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 ...

Get ready to hit that like button and follow your coworkers. Get ready to hit that like button and follow your coworkers. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook has turned its "like" button pink for users in the U.S. ahead of Mother's Day on Sunday. This week, some U.S. users reported that their like button had changed from its usual blue circle with ...

Illustration of the social plugins from Facebook ahead of their discontinuation. (Meta) Next year will see the end arrive for two of Facebook's external social plugins. The platform's Like button and ...

Facebook doesn’t like this feature anymore. Meta is doing away with two of Facebook’s external social plugins at the beginning of next year, By February 10, 2026, the social media platform will ...