The Facebook Blog

Gone are the days of gawking at celebrities on people.com without being able to share the link with Facebook friends in two clicks. No longer do we live in a world in which we're required to shuffle through email addresses or scour through AIM buddy lists in order to share the glorious content of an article on theonion.com.

Starting today, there are links to share on Facebook planted all across the Internet, from the articles at Time to the videos at Photobucket.

The idea is that when you're reading or watching something that you think is cool, you don't have to copy and paste the URL back into Facebook in order to share the link with your friends. Instead, with one click you get to check out a preview, choose how you want to share it, and then distribute it. You can share content with anyone, even people who aren't on Facebook yet.

These links are only the beginning. They will continue to pop up on more sites in the coming weeks. And you don't have to be a highly trafficked website in order to get these links on your pages. In the spirit of equal opportunity, we've written out instructions on how to add the link to any site on the Internet.

If you haven't yet checked out the sharing functionality on Facebook, you can get more information on it here.

Chris, the project manager for Share, has had a 34.75% decrease in productivity due to videos posted on his friends' profiles.