<div dir="ltr">I would consider this "sharing":<div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">
A story about your like will appear on your Timeline and may also appear in your News Feed. You may be displayed on the Page you connected to, in advertisements about that Page or in social plugins next to the content you like.</p>
<p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">You may see updates to in your feeds and the feeds of your friends from Pages you like. You may also receive messages. Your connection to the page may also be shared with apps on the Facebook Platform.</p>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Honestly though, with these social/sharing questions, I sometimes get the feeling that we're missing the forest for the trees. There are much bigger and much more important things that we're missing in our reviews.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Facebook Like connects, but does not share the content.</div><div>That's why I was thinking that this should be all right.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/131263873618748" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/help/131263873618748</a><br>
<div><br></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What does the post "like" button do, if it's not linked to any social networks? What is its functionality?</div>
<div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Swagata Das <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swagata_das@siteobtain.com" target="_blank">swagata_das@siteobtain.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div><font face="Arial">Yes, I remember that discussion. The topic was
social share/like button. I was asking about a simple blog post 'like' button.
It is not linked with any social network anyway.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">There has been a discussion on this in the past. You really need to
see how the sharing/like buttons are implemented in the theme. Are they disabled
by default or not? Will it affect the user when the theme is changed? You are
the judge here.<br><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">This like button is not a social like button,
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