Likes News

Facebook announced that it is making changes to the way Page likes are counted, as it removes memorialized and voluntarily deactivated accounts from Pages' like counts. In other wo...

Facebook: Mobile Like Button Is Doing Well For Apps

At its f8 developer conference back in April, Facebook announced the mobile like...

Facebook Talks About Its Intolerance For Spam

Facebook revealed on Friday that it has obtained nearly $2 billion in legal judgments against spammers, and talked extensively about how it won't put up with fake likes and other s...

Facebook Launches Mobile Like Button For All Android, iOS Developers

Earlier this year at its f8 developer conference, Facebook announced the mobile L...

Instagram Likes Will No Longer Be (Embarrassingly) Shared to Facebook

Here's an example of how a single social networking action can produce drastically different results on two different social networks. Imagine you're scrolling through your Inst...

Instagram Likes Hard to Come By? Take a Selfie

Your face drives engagement. It's really that simple. Your Instagram photos (and possibly your Facebook photos too) are going to be much more popular if they prominently feature...

Don’t Fire Employees Over Facebook ‘Likes’

In the United States, Facebook likes are protected by the first amendment. Liking something on Facebook is the same as using your right to free speech to actually say, "I like this...

People on the Internet Are Made Nicer by Other People’s Niceness

If a book, TV show, movie, restaurant, etc. is incredibly popular (I mean, everyone is raving about it), there's a chance that you might assign it a positive rating too - even if y...

Do You Really Want Facebook Telling You How Many People Are Ignoring Your Posts?

What does it actually mean when one of your Facebook friends "likes" one of your posts? In reality, the like is purposefully vague. It can show support, solidarity, agreement, and...

Facebook Including Instagram Likes in Photo Like Totals

In what appears to be some new integration between Facebook and the Facebook-owned Instagram, it looks like Facebook is now including Instagram likes in the total like counts on In...

State Department Bureau Spent $630,000 Garnering Facebook Likes

In your "why-the-hell" story of the day, it appears that a federal agency spent $630,000 in a campaign to acquire Facebook likes over the last couple of years. The...

Facebook Adds New Tags For Publishers To Increase Likes, Follows

Facebook announced the launch of two new Open Graph tags for publishers and journalists (OG:Publisher and OG:Author). These allow publishers and story authors to get more organic l...

No, Your Facebook Like Won’t Pay for ‘Mermaid Girl’ Surgery

A new hoax making the rounds on Facebook claims that users must like, comment, and share in order to fund surgery for a little girl born with mermaid syndrome. Although this one is...

Is Liking Something On Facebook An Act Of Free Speech?

Last year, a Virginia judge ruled that a Facebook "like" is not protected by the First Amendment. The story goes like this: Deputy Sheriff Daniel Ray Carter of Hampton, Virginia “l...

Bing Gets More Tightly Integrated With Facebook

Bing has added a bit more Facebook integration to its social search features. Now, you can comment on and like Facebook content right from Bing. "Bing already lets you view Fac...

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