October 27th 2009 in Freebies, Reviews, Websites by Gray .

What The Like Button Does on Facebook

Learn stuff you may not have known about the Like button on Facebook.

Gray

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I know, I know! So many posts about Facebook recently–well, it seems to be a point of interest, as it did increate my views about 2 times what they regularly are.

Facebook installed the Like button February 2009. Since then, it has been a shortcut to basically say ‘I like this’ on an item without the need of writing it out and commenting on it.

If Facebook were to take a survery on ‘What does the Like button do?’, about 75% of their customers would probably say: it just means you like it. However, the Highlights column on the right of your Facebook homepage tracks the most popular posts currently out. Things such as relationship updates will be added–most of the time–automatically the the Highlights if it is approved by the other person in the relationship.

In short terms, the more an object is liked, the higher chances there will be of it getting on the Highlights column.

Things to know about the Highlights column:

  • Automatically adds recent relationship updates once the two people approve it
  • Does not add status updates

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