Facebook removes ‘Like’ button from public pages

New Delhi: Aiming in the direction of simplifying its general design for customers, the social media conglomerate, Facebook has dropped the ‘like button’ from all of its public pages, that are typically utilized by public figures, artists, manufacturers, and so forth.
According to Mashable, in a transfer in the direction of serving to customers join with totally different artists and types in a straightforward method, Facebook pages will now solely present the variety of followers together with a devoted information feed part for customers to affix conversations, work together, and have interaction with others.

Facebook mentioned in a weblog that “We are removing Likes and focusing on Followers to simplify the way people connect with their favourite Pages. Unlike Likes, Followers of a Page represent the people who can receive updates from Pages, which helps give public figures a stronger indication of their fan base.”

This new replace will steadily be rolled out to all the general public pages formally within the forthcoming months. Last 12 months in July, Facebook was noticed testing a brand new design for pages which included eradicating the ‘like button’ to offer a cleaner design for pages.