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 to Retire Its Iconic ‘Like’ and ‘Comment’ Plugins from Websites by February 2026 Your email has been sent The internet’s most recognizable thumbs-up is about to disappear from everywhere but ...

YouTube fixed a bug that caused the thumbs-up ‘Like’ icon to disappear. YouTube fixed a bug that caused the thumbs-up ‘Like’ icon to disappear. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

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 ...

The instinct to ‘like’ is not at all new. You have probably not given a moment to thinking about the origin and impact of the familiar “like” button, but it’s pressed more times per day than there are ...

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 ...

YouTube is rolling out a new set of features for better mobile-based playback, song search and creator-friendly tools, including a feature that will highlight the “like and subscribe” buttons when a ...

Like Pokémon, it’s fun to try and snatch up every new custom like button in YouTube’s redesign. One user put together an animated list of every new icon. Part of YouTube’s broader new design on ...

The constant evolution of the YouTube experience on Android TV continues with a more prominent “Subscribe” button when in the main player UI. YouTube on Android TV has undergone a few visual ...

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 ...