The Facebook Blog

Information that gets posted on Facebook—a video, a blog post, anything from the web—is often more interesting because someone you know has expressed the desire to share it. Alongside the preview within Facebook there might also be a comment from your friend who posted it and the comments of their friends on the content--all of which are hard to access once you've clicked away to the article, website, or photo.

So starting today, clicking on a posted link will no longer force you to navigate back and forth between that page and Facebook. ... Instead, when you click on a friend's posted link, a small Facebook navigation bar will be layered on top of the page you arrive on. That bar will let you make a comment on the item yourself, see previous comments from other people, or share the item yourself.



We're really excited about this feature since the ability to engage with the comments of your friends can help point out something new, and that can spur thoughtful or amusing discussion. We want to enable you to comment seamlessly on interesting content you see anywhere on the web and share more easily with your friends.

If you don't see these new features just yet, don't worry. We're starting to roll them out today, and they will be available to everyone in the coming weeks.


Makinde, an engineer at Facebook, can't wait to read his friends' comments.