Be Evil. Facebook's New Like Button Has An Interesting Option
Today, at Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, Buchheit’s FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor (both came over to Facebook after the acquisition) took the stage to show off a major new Facebook feature: a Like button for the web. Taylor announced that these buttons were ready to be implemented on sites across the web starting today. But as you’ll notice on this page, there’s a rather interesting option when you’re customizing the button.
There are three different color schemes you can choose for this button: light, dark, and… evil. Yes, evil.
Read into this what you will. But it seems a bit odd that as Facebook looks to cement itself as the fabric of the web — one day, they hope, even more so than Google — they’d use the word “evil” anywhere. For what it’s worth, the colors of this scheme appears to be no different than “light.”
Update: And like that… it’s gone. You’re welcome Facebook.