Facebook gives mobile apps a little ‘Like’ love

The ability to ‘Like something is one of Facebook’s defining features. Thing is most mobile couldn’t make use of the functionality. Until now that is.

The social networking giant announced that it would be making the function available on Open Graph. This, it says, will “makes it easier for people to share content” from their apps.

Not a fan of the standard like button? Not a problem, claims Facebook. You can build your own custom like button if you um…like.

According to Facebook:

When a person likes their friend’s story via the new like action, a notification is sent to the friend. For example, if a person likes the photo their friend posts on Instagram, the friend will get a notification.

As with the Like button, like stories are presented and aggregated in News Feed, similar when someone clicks the Like button.

People will however have to authorise apps to publish liked stories to Facebook.