Meta will retire Facebook’s Like and Comment plugins on Feb. 10, 2026, citing a platform refresh as usage declines — ending a hallmark of the early social web.

They're artifacts from a more naive time on the internet. Meta has announced that they're going away next year on Feb. 10.

Meta is about to retire two of its Facebook social plugins for websites, the Facebook Like button and the Comments plugin ...

It was summer 2007. Facebook was three years old and growing at a heady pace. Originally for college students, it had opened to the public the previous fall. Now it had 30 million users. What it ...

This image provided by BCG shows a sketch by Bob Goodson that included a crude concept of what would become the Like button on May 18, 2005. BCG via AP SAN FRANCISCO — The internet wouldn’t be the ...