Bom Like Facebook

[Granville Turley]

Unfortunatelythe numbers for the website of my employer is nowhere near 22'000, so the powers that be have decided that we should not show the number of "likes" until said number is a little more in our favour. As far as I know, I don't have access to the layout of the button through Javascript or CSS (it's in an iframe served by facebook). Are there any other ways to hide the count?

The Like button coded to show "Recommend" is 84px wide and the "Like" button is 44px, will save some time for you CSS guys like me who need to hide how unpopular my page currently is! I put this code on top of my homepage, so initially I don't want it to advertise how few Likes I have.

Due to a change Facebook recently made in the way comment dialogs display, we had to change how we were hiding it. The way they show the comment dialog has been 'moving' the content inside of the my overflow:hidden element so that the button looks really odd to the user after they click the like button.

I know many solutions have been posted already, but mine is still somewhat different. It works for the HTML5 Version of the like button and only uses css to hide the count box. Don't forget to add the appId to test.

It seems as if FaceBook has recently changed some code - whenever I clicked "Like", the contents jumped to the left, thus messing up the UI. No CSS / JS tricks made it work. I went with a more simple solution, using an iframe.

And make it so that it is always english, by adding "&locale=en_US" to the URL. This is to prevent weird layouts in other countries - in Dutch it would be "Vind ik leuk" and in english "Like". I guess everybody, in every language, knows a "Like" so lets stick with that.

My solution is a little hood but it works. What I do is just basically detect where the number is going to be and use css to have a box cover over it. I guess you can also cheat the system and add more hits if you want. Here is my code using jquery but it will be different than others depending on where you place the like button on your page.

Hi!

I have create my Facebook Page by help of sitepoint user. Thanks for helping me.

Now.

I want to know how can I create Page like that I post my friends wall. If anyone click that link it instantly like my page.

Please help me.

Thank you for reply. But this not enough for me. I am not want web URL like code. I want direct page like link code. That I will past my friends wall and if anyone click that link it generate instant like my facebook page.

Such links are prohibited and you can very easy loose your account over such thing. Make your page interesting with a lot of fresh content and you will find the right way to get likes. Of course, you can always search for a good social media agency to help you out.

One of my friends on Facebook did a mass invite that I am interested doing myself. I got a message in my notification section which linked his page. I could click on that link and directly "like" the page. The text in my notification's list read, "[Name of friend] has invited you to like his new page [name of page with a link]."

I would like to do this for my own business's page. I have hit "Share" which makes the site show up on my profile, but people are liking my share, which doesn't give me the result I want. I would like people to be invited to like my site directly so they can get status updates and see our pictures and promotions. I'm fairly certain that these friends are interested in such a thing, they just aren't Facebook savvy enough to know how to do that. I'm hoping the notification to directly like the page will help them understand and streamline the process so the friends who want to connect with my business can "like" the site and I can leave my other friends alone.

Use the dropdown menu to choose a list or select Search All Friends. Next, scroll through your friends and check the boxes next to the names of the people you want to invite. You can also search for friends in the menu's search box. When you're done selecting friends, be sure to click Submit to send your friends invitations to your Page.

There's this great Andy Warhol quote you've probably seen before: "I think everybody should like everybody." You can buy posters and plates with pictures of Warhol, looking like the cover of a Belle & Sebastian album, with that phrase plastered across his face in Helvetica. But the full quote, taken from a 1963 interview in Art News, is a great description of how we interact on social media today.

Warhol: Someone said that Brecht wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It's happening here all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it's working without trying, why can't it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we're getting more and more that way.

I think everybody should be a machine. I think everybody should like everybody.

Art News: Is that what Pop Art is all about?

Warhol: Yes. It's liking things.

Art News: And liking things is like being a machine?

Warhol: Yes, because you do the same thing every time. You do it over and over again.

I have 60 odd users that are rarely in the office and do not connect via VPN, however, I have been asked to block access to Facebook.com. I would prefer not to load on software to their laptops to do it. Is it possible carry out this task via group policy or does someone have a better idea?

How IT savvy are your users? Could you configure using something like OpenDNS and blacklist facebook? Obvioulsy if they are knowledgeable enough they could change the settings (assuming they have access privaledges to allow it)

I doubt any of the proxy server options would work on remote users who are not going through a VPN connection as the proxy would not be between the user and the offending sites at home without a lot of headache. The host file edit is probabably the best quick and dirty for remote users. If the users were in the office I would agree 100% with the proxy server route.

So how did this all come about? How did one little tool on one social media site tap into something so fundamental to human psychology? To find out, I got in touch with Leah Pearlman, a current comic book artist and former Facebook employee from Denver who is credited with the button's inception.

VICE: Hey Leah, let's start with how you got to Facebook.

Leah Pearlman: Well I was always a math-science kid. I loved problem solving and I loved getting the answers right. I think it was also really because I was a girl in math, and that also felt cool. So I studied hard at maths and left Brown University with a degree in computer science. I first got a job at Microsoft and worked there for two years but I just didn't find it inspiring. I had some friends going over to Facebook and I was really impressed with their product. I thought their site had a special user design and there was some magic in it, so I went for an interview. I was 23, and it was just like 100 other 23-year-olds working together in the same office, and they were all super smart and fun. This was during 2006 and it just had magic to it. I could tell straight away.

So how did the like button come about? What problem were you trying to solve?

I was trying to solve what we called the redundant problem. So for example, if you write "We're getting married!" all the comments used to say "Congratulations" over and over again. I found that really aesthetically ugly, plus, every time someone did say something heartfelt, the post was hard to find among all the other redundant ones. So I wanted to solve both problems at once.

Do you remember the exact lightbulb moment for the like button?

No, it was an evolution. The beginning of the idea was something called the bomb button, which was similar but slightly different thing my friend came up with. He posted it on our ideas board but for some reason it didn't attract attention. So then I did a slightly different version and called it the awesome button. And for some reason it got attention from the team and we all worked on it together. It was a co-creation.

That was in 2009. How do you feel about the like button eight years later?

At first I felt like this thing we'd built was amazing. But then about two years ago I noticed the newsfeed algorithms changed so certain content wouldn't get as much distribution. And at that time I'd started drawing these comics. The comics were my way of drawing and sharing my internal world, and I was putting them on Facebook getting more and more fans and I loved it. But when Facebook changed their algorithm my likes dropped off and it felt like I wasn't getting enough oxygen. It was like, wait a minute, I poured my heart and soul into this drawing but it's only had 20 likes. So even if I could blame it on the algorithm, something inside me was like they don't like me, I'm not good enough. I need to start buying ads!

It's fine, my life is governed by likes too. But what I find interesting is that you're just as motivated by likes, even though you created the system. Do you feel responsible for what you've done to the internet?

I feel like I should feel responsible, but I don't. I look back and I think it was the right thing to do at that time and there was no way around it. My housemate is building artificial intelligence and he gets a lot of people telling him to stop, but we literally can't. Someone is going to build it. There was no way to not do that, so I don't feel responsible.

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