The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has served as a creative ...

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 ...

It's the end of a major Web 2.0 era. Meta announced on Monday that it would be sunsetting two once-major features on Facebook: The external "Like" and Comment" social plugins. In a post on its ...

The internet wouldn't be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has served as a creative ...

On 9 February 2009, a button appeared that would change the internet forever. Billed as an “easy way to let people know that you enjoy it”, the Facebook “Like” feature brought an end to the digital ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has ...

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 ...

So are external comment buttons, according to Meta. They’ll be discontinued on February 10th, 2026, and starting on that date, they’ll render instead as a 0 x 0 pixel to prevent causing errors. Follow ...