They're artifacts from a more naive time on the internet. Meta has announced that they're going away next year on Feb. 10.

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 ...

'Like' button plugins can transmit people's data back to Facebook even if they don't click on those buttons, the ECJ finds. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is ...

SAN FRANCISCO – 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 ...

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s founder and CEO, was recently reported to have questioned how the site “incentivizes people to want (the number of likes on their posts) to go up.” He also said that “he was not ...

There’s growing concern among mental health professionals and child advocates about the “like” buttons of the social media world. They say kids’ drive for validation and popularity on services like ...

The most drastic change to Facebook in years was born a year ago during an off-site at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley, a 10-minute drive from headquarters. Chris Cox, the social network’s chief ...

AUSTIN – Call it the “like” heard ‘round the world. Late Monday night when most sensible folks were in their jammies and ready to hit the pillow, the name of Texas’ junior U.S. senator began trending ...