When was the last time you clicked the Like button on some piece of content outside of Facebook, causing anyone who sees your Facebook activity to see your little recommendation in their news feed? Better yet, when was the last time you commented on a piece of non-Facebook content by clicking a Facebook comment button?

Apparently these buttons are still alive somewhere, and used enough to merit an announcement from Meta that they’re going away next year on Feb. 10 .

It’s probably wise for Meta to memory-hole these artifacts of a more naive time on the internet.

In 2010, following the roaring success of the Like button the previous year, Facebook rolled out something called the Open Graph, an array of products for developers that overlaid the social functions of Facebook on whatever si

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