You may have noticed this week that the word “Like” has popped up on all of your websites all over the place. If you’re an avid Facebook user, you know that this word is used to show appreciation of something, and it accompanied “Become a Fan” within the “walls” of Facebook. Well, this is no longer the case.

This week Facebook held a developer conference, f8, and it announced a whole new platform where it intends to make all of the web social. Facebook wants to be your home-base essentially. “Become a Fan” has been replaced with Like, which now there is no difference in how much you enjoy something.

The interesting part of this, is when you go to an outside website, you can now click “Like” and it automatically reports back to your Facebook profile and compiles your data for third party companies.

It also announced Open Graph, which will help companies to create what they want without having to create a Facbook Fan Page.

If you use Facebook Connect to sign into any other websites across the internet, beware, this will soon no longer be an option.

However, if you do not enjoy the privacy (or lack-thereof) implications, you can easily opt out by following these directions:

Account
Privacy Settings
Applications & Websites
Uncheck “Allow”

Happy Facebooking.

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