Facebook "Like" and "Share" on a website, which is better?

Question

I was wondering what is the difference between users "liking" a page and users "sharing" it. For example, let's say I have a news site with a lot of articles. Do I have a Like button on the main page and a Share button for every single article? Or maybe the other way around?

Answer 1

Facebook does not recommend using the Share button, instead using the Like button . This is what Facebook says about the Like button.

The “Like” button allows the user to content with friends on Facebook. when a user clicks the “Like” button on your site, the story appears in the news feed of friends of friends with a link back to your site.

Further information and guidance is available at the link above.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Why Facebook recommends using the Like button ( beware, sarcasm inside ):

• He gives them more information about users.
• Everything is controlled by them (via iFrame or hosted javascript), which can be enjoyable (the widget is updated live!) (The keyword is used here)
• Easy to implement

Why you should not use Like Like :

• Its security is pretty poor (i.e. spam, hijacking, user tracking - an addict, etc.).
• Users may want to like a page (or a product or something else) but not share it on their page.
• In any case, it’s easy to implement a sharing button or even a custom one.

Answer 3

an important difference is performance;

share-link does not make any request to facebook (or to any other site) if it is not clicked, while a similar widget makes requests to facebook (therefore, the privacy problem Chouchenos rightly mentions).

this really means that a page with a shared link will load faster than the same page with a similar widget file.