Facebook Redesigns Like And Share Buttons, Announces 2 New Chrome Extensions

Facebook is one of the major social networks
and they have their own share buttons.
However, the design has remained unchanged
for a while and that is why the company has
announced today the newly redesigned ones
from the share buttons to the ubiquitous
“like” button.

The Facebook Like button has been
embedded in publisher websites in a bid to let
people easily like their official Facebook
Pages.

You can see the contrast between the
old and the new in the above illustration
where you can see 3 changes: First, the
Facebook logo has been replaced with the
like logo, the Page size has been included in
the same glyph and a change in the font
style. The new style looks flatter and better
than before.

According to Facebook, they
conducted tests between the two designs
where apparently the new one resulted in an
increase in engagement,so we have to see if that is true.




The second announcement is about the
redesigned share buttons which includes the
like button. They follow the same flat design
philosophy we saw from the “Save to
Facebook” button (which was announced 2
months ago) and the refreshed Like button.









The other announcement is Instant Articles
integration. Instant Articles is Facebook’s
proprietary platform that allows you to read
articles that load almost instantaneously. In
the new update, publishers who use Instant
Articles will be able to add the Like,
Comment and Share buttons at the bottom of
their posts.


Finally, Facebook announced two new
Chrome extensions: Share to Facebook and
Save to Facebook.

This will allow you to
share or save an article with ease on
Facebook which is important for Facebook to
be relevant in being the only source of news
for a lot of people out there. The company
announced the Save to Facebook button at
F8 conference in April so it is commendable
of them to roll out a way to save articles on
Facebook while surfing the web on desktop
via Chrome.