“Liking” a story now posts a thumbnail to your Facebook stream, just like the FB share button.

We recently revamped our share button arrangement (you should see it to the right) and made a conscious decision to include the FB Share button instead of the FB Like button which can still be found at the bottom of our articles.

Why? Well until today when a reader ‘liked’ (or ‘recommended’ in our case) a story, a single line of text would be posted into their Facebook profile for others to see. The Facebook Share button however, which although requires one extra step for the reader, includes a thumbnail by default along with a snippet of the story – something, I can assure you, matters.

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