The like button is a standard feature of major social media platforms today like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, ...

Facebook wants you to share every awesome article, video, and webpage you stumble upon with your friends. And it wants to make doing so as easy as algorithmically possible. So, it’s no surprise, ...

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 ...

In terms of sheer impact, the like button was one of the most successful pieces of code ever shipped. But when you examine the quality of that impact, its flaws become glaring. It was summer 2007.

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 ...