I want to ‘Like’ the entire internet

The Facebook F8 Conference really fed my suspicions that Facebook is taking over the planet, or at least the internet. The big hype from the conference was the release of Facebook Social Plugins. The plugin of particular interest to me is the “Like” button. According to Facebook, the Like button enables users to make connections to your pages or posts and share content back to their friends on Facebook with one click.

So now, rather than just “liking” someones status update, pictures, and links, I can actually start “liking” stuff that I read, see, and experience out in the great wide web.

If you doubt the power of a simple “like” button, then you must still be browsing the internet with IE6 on your Gateway desktop computer. According to TechCrunch 50,000 websites have already integrated Facebook’s social plugins. Think about that for just a second. In one week, 50,000 websites began utilizing these tools.  And beyond how many websites are using the application it was estimated that there would be 1 billion “like” buttons scattered through the internet within 24 hours of the release of the plugins.

I’m pretty geeked up at the potential this plug in holds. It is a great marketing tool for websites and bloggers because it allows you to tap into the 400 million members of the social networking site.

Do you use Facebook? If so, do you think expanding the “like” button to the internet is a good idea?