In addition to leaving a Timeline post, you can interact with your friends onFacebook by commenting on or liking the things they post. Frequently, people post things that you want to respond to. You may read an article they posted and want to respond to the viewpoint with one of your own. Their photos may be so beautiful that you just have to tell them.
To comment on anything on Facebook, follow these steps:
Click Comment.
The comment box expands. Frequently, this box is already expanded, in which case you can simply go on to Step 2.
Click in the text box that appears.
Type what you want to say.
When you're finished, press Enter.
Frequently, comment threads, or a series of comments, can become like an ongoing conversation. If you're responding to someone who commented above you, type the @ symbol (Shift+2) and start typing the name of the person you want to respond to. You'll be able to select her name from an autocomplete list that appears as you type.
After you comment on something, you'll be notified about subsequent comments so that you can keep up on the conversation. If you decide that maybe you didn't really want to say that thing, you can always delete your comment by hovering your mouse over it and clicking the X that appears. You can do the same when someone comments on something you've posted and you don't like what she says.
How to Like
Sometimes, a status or photo or linkis just good. You might not have a brilliant comment to make, or you might just feel a little lazy. A great example of this is news about someone's engagement. That's awesome, you might think.
And then you look and notice about 50 comments saying simply, "Congrats!" Because, while the engagement is empirically good, there's not much to say beyond "Congratulations" or "I'm so happy for you" or "Mazel Tov!" That's where liking comes in. Liking is just a fast way for you to let your friends know that you're paying attention and you like what you're seeing.
To like something, simply click the word Like below or next to the item. Your friend will be notified that you like it. If you didn't mean it, really, click Unlike and your like will be taken away.
How to Like Pages
You can like almost anything on Facebook. You can like a photo or a status; you can even like a comment on a photo or status. But there's a slight difference between liking this sort of content and liking Pages.
Pages are sort of official Profiles that companies, bands, and public figures make to represent themselves on Facebook. They mostly work like Timelines, except instead of friending or following Pages, you like Pages.
This sort of liking has one big implication you should be aware of. It means you may start seeing posts and updates from the Page in your News Feed, alongside stories from your friends. These sorts of updates can be really interesting and cool if you're into the particular company or brand. If they start to bother you, you can always hide that Page from your News Feed.
How to comment, like, and share across the Internet
If you're a reader of blogs, you may notice that the Comment and Like links and icons appear in lots of places. For example, at the top of blogposts on Jezebel, a Gawker Media blog, a little Like button counts the number of people who have liked any particular post.
You can like posts on any website you're viewing, and those likes will be recorded on your Timeline and may appear in your friends' News Feeds. Through Social Plugins, Facebook allows other website developers to enable certain Facebook features like the Like button on their own websites. If you're currently logged in to Facebook, you may start noticing these buttons all over the Internet.
This is a really quick way to let your Facebook friends know about the most interesting content you've come across online.
Other websites have Share links that generate the same Facebook Share box that you find on Facebook itself. So from an entirely separate website, you can choose to post to a friend's Timeline, your own Timeline, to a group, or to a message thread.
Similarly, some blogs use Facebook comments as their primary commenting system.
It's just not on Facebook; it's on a different website. The way you comment is exactly the same, and in this case, you can choose whether you want your comment to be posted back to your Facebook Timeline by selecting or deselecting the Post to Facebook box.
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