Facebook Connect was our initiative to help developers integrate Facebook Platform beyond Facebook.com. Given that the underlying technologies are the same whether you are building apps, websites or devices, we’re transitioning away from the Facebook Connect brand to reflect that there is one platform behind any integration with Facebook. This change has no impact for developers using Connect; everything is still part of Facebook Platform.

You can optionally use the "Login with Facebook" login button or our new button with faces, which have seen higher conversion rates.

Learn more about integrating Facebook on your website here which includes many components that we promoted as Facebook Connect.

The Share button was designed to share content from your website back to Facebook. With the launch of our new social plugins, including the Like button, Activity Feed, Recommendations, Like Box, Login with Faces, Facepile, Comments, and Live Stream, you can implement multiple plugins to promote social engagement on your website and sharing back to Facebook. Many of the social plugins only require one line of code, making it easy for developers to implement and integrate their website with Facebook. The Share button will still function, but if you're just getting started integrating your website with Facebook, we recommend starting with our new social plugins.

Social plugins are tools that other websites can use to provide people with personalized and social experiences. When you interact with social plugins, you share your experiences off Facebook with your friends and others on Facebook.

The main social plugins include:

• Like button: Click Like to publicly share and connect with content from other websites that you find interesting. Learn more.
• Send button: Click Send to share a link and optional note as a private Facebook message, Facebook Group post, or email. Learn more.
• Comments box: Publicly comment on another website using your Facebook account.
• Activity Feed: What your friends are liking, commenting on or sharing on a site.
• Recommendations: Most liked content among your friends on a site.

If you're a developer, learn more about implementing these features within a single line of HTML.

If you're having trouble with any of your social plugin integrations, first read the documentation on our Developer website. If you're still experiencing issues, search the Developer Forum, where developers discuss their implementations of social plugins and may address the same issues that you are having.

If you've discovered a bug, please search the Bug Tracker and either file a new bug or vote up an existing bug.

You can use Facebook's Insights tool, which supports analytics broken down by app and by domain. The product includes rich data about users sharing content from your site within Facebook no matter where those shares originated. For example, if a user puts a URL from your site into a Facebook status message, that data is included in the analytics for your domain. Click here to set up your Insights.

The Open Graph protocol enables you to integrate your web pages into the social graph. It is currently designed for web pages representing profiles of real-world things — things like movies, sports teams, celebrities, and restaurants. Once your pages become objects in the graph, users can establish connections to your pages as they do with Facebook Pages. Based on the structured data you provide via the Open Graph protocol, your pages show up richly across Facebook: in user profiles (timelines), within search results and in news feeds. To get started, you will add meta tags to your website and incorporate the Like button. Click here for more information.

Social plugins are featured on over 2,000,000 websites. You can see some featured examples on our Showcase.

Integrating your website with social plugins such as the Like button does not require registration with Facebook. You can simply click here, enter your website information, and get the code for your website. If you plan to use the Login with Facebook button, you'll need to register your site first to get an API key.

Yes. If you plan to use the Login with Facebook button, you'll need to register your site first to get an API key. However, integrating social plugins on your website does not require registration with Facebook.

The Like button is designed to make your website more social and allow users to share substantive content with their friends. Websites without content will still be able to implement the Like button, but the resulting story will not result in a link to the website, as user behavior indicates they are liking a concept rather than substantive content on a website.

1. Click on the green Insights for your Domain button on your Insights Dashboard.
2. Type in your domain address into the text box and select the user, Page or app account to link it with. If you need to provide access to a single user, then select user ID. If you need to provide access to multiple users then you should create and select a Facebook Page or app. All administrators of the Page or app will have access to insights for the site. Removing someone as an administrator of the Page or app will revoke their access to the site’s insights.
3. Copy the meta tag provided in the window and add it to the root of your web page. Website owners must add a verification meta tag to the <head> section of the root webpage of a domain. If your site uses subdomains, the root file of each subdomain must be claimed separately.
4. Finally, click Check Domain. Once checked, your claimed domain will appear on the left side navigation bar under the domains section.

These are the meta tags to add to your website and correspond with the access privileges granted to a user, owners of a Page or admins for an app:

• <meta property="fb:admins" content="user_id" />
• <meta property="fb:page_id" content="your_page_id" />
• <meta property="fb:app_id" content="your_app_id" />

Follow the instructions below to add open graph Pages to the Destination box on the ad creation page so you can run ads leading to them:

1. Locate your user ID number. To do this, go to your profile page, click on your profile picture and look at the website address in your internet browser bar. The numbers at the end of the website address are your user ID. For example, if the address is https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pa.576027062, your user ID is 576027062.
   
   
2. Add your user ID number as an admin of the pages by adding the following meta data on the Open Graph pages you wish to advertise:
   
   meta property="fb:admins" content="uid"
   
   Here’s an example to help you.
   
   
3. Page source:
   
4. Update the data that Facebook gathers from your page by using the URL Linter. The URL Linter will also allow you to check if the User ID was added as an admin.
   
   


5. The Page should appear when you click in the box marked Destination in the ad create flow (Note: it might take a little while for the page to show up).

OG tags are necessary for you to make the most of your Like button implementation.

The URL Linter is a helpful tool to see feedback about your page markup, correct issues and optimize the implementation.

Using the Linter:

1. Click here
2. Type in the URL of a sample page of your website you would like to learn more about.
3. Pay attention to the "Warning" Box as it will tell you if anything is missing from your code.
   
   
4. Under "Info", you can see the Information that you have included for each Like button object.

Remember that the following 6 Open Graph tags are required:

• og:title - The title of the entity.
• og:type - The type of entity. You must select a type from the list of Open Graph types.
• og:image - The URL to an image that represents the entity. Images must be at least 50 pixels by 50 pixels. Square images work best, but you are allowed to use images up to three times as wide as they are tall.
• og:url - The canonical, permanent URL of the page representing the entity. When you use Open Graph tags, the Like button posts a link to the og:url instead of the URL in the Like button code.
• og:site_name - A human-readable name for your site, e.g., "IMDb".
• fb:admins or fb:app_id - A comma-separated list of either the Facebook IDs of Page administrators or a Facebook Platform Application ID. At a minimum, include only your own Facebook ID.