{"id":21,"date":"2010-04-28T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2010-04-28T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:00:16","slug":"facebook-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/facebook-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook &#8220;Like&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Screen-shot-2010-04-28-at-5.46.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-04-28 at 5.46.40 PM\" width=\"21\" height=\"19\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24\" \/>Remember the days of becoming a &#8220;fan&#8221; on Facebook? As part of their new <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/docs\/opengraph\" target=\"new\" >Open Graph protocol<\/a>, Facebook has replaced the &#8220;Become a Fan&#8221; button to &#8220;Like,&#8221; and no, it&#8217;s not just a change for the sake of syntax. In an effort to increase social awareness, sites employing the like button can track the amount of &#8220;likes&#8221; or approvals in a similar fashion as you would see if someone likes a status update, comment, or photo. Leah Pearlman, a product manager at Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=53024537130\" target=\"new\" >blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is similar to how you might rate a restaurant on a reviews site. If you go to the restaurant and have a great time, you may want to rate it 5 stars. But if you had a particularly delicious dish there and want to rave about it, you can write a review detailing what you liked about the restaurant. We think of the new &#8220;Like&#8221; feature to be the stars, and the comments to be the review.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Implementation has flourished. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/blog\/post\/379\" target=\"new\" >Facebook&#8217;s Developer Blog<\/a>, more than 50,000 sites have implemented the &#8220;like&#8221; button as well as other social plugins in a week after launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the days of becoming a &#8220;fan&#8221; on Facebook? As part of their new Open Graph protocol, Facebook has replaced the &#8220;Become a Fan&#8221; button to &#8220;Like,&#8221; and no, it&#8217;s not just a change for the sake of syntax. In an effort to increase social awareness, sites employing the like button can track the amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,20],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-facebook","tag-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffsoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}