Facebook Announces New, Improved Share and Save Options, Social Plugins

Facebook has revamped its Like button and other social plugin buttons with a cleaner mobile friendly design. Now though, they are seeking to replace the “f” in the social plugin with the well recognized, Facebook Like button. Instead of having the Facebook “f” on the button, it will once again have the company’s iconic thumbs-up on it.

The button changes should increase engagement, if only slightly, and modernize the look of the blue slabs that live on just about every page of the web these days. This update will be a gradual rollout, and people will start to see these changes over the coming weeks.

According to the company, tests of the change showed that users liked content with the new buttons 6 percent more often. By giving you a button you can always hit to instantly save an article, it lets you browse the Internet without worrying if you don’t have time to consume something you discover. The company says 300 million people do this a month.

Facebook today announced the launch of two new Chrome extensions that let users put more content into Facebook. Besides letting you save new articles, videos, and other things to your Facebook account, the new Save extension for Chrome – the button has a bookmark logo – also lets you quickly access the things you’ve most recently saved, without requiring you to navigate over to Facebook. In the coming weeks, articles will gain “Like”, “Comment”, and “Share” buttons, and partners who use Facebook to power their comment section – and have the “comment mirroring” feature enabled – will see conversations synced across the web, Facebook Instant, and related posts in News Feed. Add a message and congratulations – you have shared content to Facebook.

If you’d like to try either extension, you can grab Save to Facebook or Share to Facebook on the Chrome Web Store now. Whether the Facebook buttons are in the sites you visit or the browser your visit them on, they serve as a constant reminder to go back and check out what friends are doing on the inescapable social network.