Facebook loves to run life-size experiments. Today, the Palo Alto company is trying to delete “likes” on public pages. A way to highlight people who follow a celebrity. Redesign of public pages It doesn’t actually show the mention anymore “Jean-Pierre and 30,000 others like this” but a sober “30,000” subscribers, which is the same thing. In addition to providing more clarity on a profile’s popularity, this will make life easier for administrators.
For now, this is just a test. It remains limited. a small number of very popular pages, like actors or any other kind of celebrity. This thing is also available in an English version on mobile only. It’s true that it’s now much easier to see follower counts with this new Twitter-inspired design.
The “Like” button is not under threat… yet
If the test proves successful, Facebook could expand it to everyone. Then it won’t It is no longer possible to “like” a star, but only for subscribing. As it is now, you will receive posts from the relevant profile in your news feed. This redesign also concerns the management parameters. Thus, those who have a general public page will have more control over the options they have access to, and changing profiles will also be more fluid and intuitive.
But you should not believe this This marks the beginning of the end of the “like” button. The real heart of the user experience has been left aside on the public pages, but it will continue to exist everywhere else. We remember that Facebook once considered removing it from Instagram, which angered users. The only thing left to do is to see if the network will roll out this new design to the entire network.
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