What Happens When You Like Everything on Facebook?

For most of us, liking something on Facebook is a way to acknowledge the things we’re interested in — and things we actually like. Sometimes we want to tell the algorithm that we dislike something, but we have to settle for simply not clicking the like button instead. What many users probably don’t understand is how the act of liking something impacts what we do and don’t see in our news feeds.

Wired contributor Mat Honan decided to undergo a little experiment, and liked everything he saw on Facebook for 48 hours.