Facebook "like" Button

Facebook this week introduced a new way to express your interests, a "Like" button that's set to appear all around the web. Click the button, and the Web page is shared with your friends. Every like button you submit will be sent back to facebook and will help them serve your needs better. Twitter has already planned a counter-act with the "retweet" but since a significant amount of people have facebook accounts (4 times as much) they settled for the like button instead. Visit CNN or Mashable or Technologizer, click the "Like" button, and that information is posted to your Facebook page. (Though CNN's button is still labeled "Recommend" -- maybe they didn't get the memo.) Meanwhile, if your Facebook friends also like what you like, you can find that out too, again without ever visiting Facebook. This is a great application but theres one thing I dislike about it, your Facebook friends roster will be full of people you barely know. Facebook is making a play to become the single-sign-on and social-sharing engine for every major site on the Net. Is it safe to say that Facebook is taking things too far, YES, but can you blame them, NO, the're intentions of taking over are purely reasonable. Now all they need to do is get a "Dislike" button and that will be enough. If you havent tried it yet, do that then tell me what u think about it.