Facebook Redesigns Like, Share, Follow And Save Buttons, Roll-out Chrome Extensions
World’s most popular social networking service, Facebook has made major changes on its social icons.
The Menlo Park, California Company introduced new Like, Share, Follow, and Save buttons for its desktop site and apps platforms.
The buttons themselves are also receiving a size boost, as Facebook looks to help its partners gain even more likes and shares via mobile devices.
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According to the company, over 30 per cent of like button impressions come from mobile devices.
“The Like and Share buttons both use the Facebook “f” logo today. Our hypothesis was that more people would understand the thumbs up icon on the Like button, so we conducted qualitative and quantitative tests to measure them side-by-side. The results revealed an increase in engagement, so we are switching the Like button from the Facebook “f” logo to the thumbs up icon,” said Facebook in a blog post.
Facebook is also making it easier to share and save articles or images you’d like to put on your profile with new extensions to Google’s Chrome browser.
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“Sharing and saving great content are two things that people love to do when browsing the web. Improving this experience for people drives greater engagement and distribution of content for sites and keeps visitors coming back for more.
“Now we’re making it easier for people to both Share and Save with our new Chrome extensions, Share to Facebook and Save to Facebook.
“We want to help people connect with each other through sharing the things that matter to them. Share to Facebook will give people more options to share any link on the web with their friends to Facebook, Groups, and Messenger, the company added.
As for the Share to Facebook, all that a user needs to do is to click on the small Facebook icon in the address bar, something that would show up only after installing the extension, and share them via the sharing dialogue. In addition, users can also select particular text and then click on the Facebook button to share it.
The Save to Facebook can be accessed via the Facebook website. On the news feed page, it can be seen under the ‘Favourites’ option.
