The Facebook "like" sign is seen at Facebook's corporate headquarters campus in Menlo Park, California (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images) For many years, Facebook's ‘thumbs up’ icon adorned ...

If you’ve been living under or a rock or, more realistically, been avoiding logging onto Facebook to prevent further procrastination from midterms, then you may have missed Facebook’s latest update.

The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has served as a creative ...