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With the coming of a universal Facebook “Like” button, we might be doing something new with content we find on the web. Content sharing buttons are ubiquitous across Internet sites. We tag, bookmark, and tweet articles to take a degree of ownership over content we discover online.
While the Retweet button stands as the preeminent content tag today, with a rising number of retweets signifying article popularity, it may soon yield its power to the Facebook “Like.” As noted in Techcrunch, web rumors point to the rise of a Facebook branded “Like” button that can be attached to online content from publishers of all sizes.
A Facebook “Like” button would serve to filter a greater amount of data to the social network. Users would effectively give Facebook greater insight into their online behavior outside its walls. The rise of the FB “Like” would further tilt the web toward Facebook.