Sentence examples for hitting the like button from inspiring English sources
In a friend of the court filing with the Eastern District of Virginia, Facebook said that expressing a preference for something by hitting the Like button should absolutely be protected under the First Amendment.
For those six pages alone, Albright found 19.1 million "interactions," a term describing how often a Facebook user does something concrete with a post, such as sharing it, commenting on it, hitting the "like" button or posting an emoji.
Facebook has at least one major ally when it comes to this position: the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a similar brief with the court on Monday, comparing hitting the Like button to other representative forms of speech such as wearing a pin or placing a bumper sticker on a car.
Another metric, called "interactions," counts something narrower but more important -- the number of times individual users acted on what they had read by sharing a post with their Facebook "friends," hitting the "like" button, making a comment or posting an emoji symbol.
As far as I can tell, that number is actually the number of items individual users are sharing on Facebook (not just the range of their delivery), but it includes hitting the Like button, etc.
Facebook won't be hitting the "like" button on John Oliver's latest segment.
Every time you do a Google search or hit the "like" button on Facebook, you surrender yet more.
Facebook users post more photos, write more status updates and hit the like button more often from mobile devices than they do from computers.
"You can search for restaurants my friends like, but 'like' is still binary on Facebook — they hit the like button or not," said Nate Elliott, a principal analyst at Forrester Research who studies social media.
On its Facebook page, 1-800-Flowers.com asked customers on Valentine's Day to hit the "Like" button, "if you still remember when and how you met that special someone in your life".
Hit the "Like" button, then dive into the photos section.
