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I have a business requirement to add a Share on Facebook button to a site. There are a lot of links on the web that point to this page but that just points to the page about the like button. Considering there really isn't any talk of a Share button on that page, makes me think it's going away.
This blog post from 2009 talks about the Share button. I didn't see, when I searched, any mention about the Share button being phased out.
I'm unclear on whether I should implement this with sharer.php or whether I should tell the business that "Share" is on the way out and we should just implement "Like".
I have seen some blog posts that suggest Share is deprecated, but nothing official from Facebook.
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Ok, so apparently FB has updated their privacy settings... For those of you seeing the "Share" option in your posts... That means that post is open to the public to see. If you have your profile settings set to "Friends", then no one will be able to share your posts.
That's right, Facebook appears to be running a test which would see the 'Share' button removed from News Feed posts, replaced with a 'Message' button instead. The new format would likely see a reduction in public post sharing, further shrinking already low organic reach numbers.
It is not deprecated per se, but we do want developers to move the Like button.
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Official word from Facebook on the sharer.php being deprecated and not supported: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/
The Share button has been deprecated in favor of the Like button, and will no longer be supported. Please use the Like button whenever possible to drive maximum traffic to your apps.
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