# Like comment on Facebook **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 19, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-comment-on-facebook/561251 "2010-11-19T19:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-comment-on-facebook/561251/1 "2010-11-19T19:13:35Z")
Did facebook recently change the way the like comment is done, before if someone posted a comment, you could either reply to it or click on the like button. Did they add a setting where the original poster could remove a like comment from their post? Declan ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-comment-on-facebook/561251/2 "2010-11-19T19:43:35Z")
I seem to be able to remove other people’s comments from my posts… but not their ‘likes’. edit: Do you mean comments, or likes? They are two distinct entities. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-comment-on-facebook/561251/3 "2010-11-19T20:20:22Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I seem to be able to remove other people’s comments from my posts… but not their ‘likes’. > edit: Do you mean comments, or likes? They are two distinct entities. No , I meant the thumbs up like comments, I knew you could moderate actual comments to a post. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-comment-on-facebook/561251/4 "2010-11-19T21:32:49Z")
I checked out one of my recent posts that someone had thumbbed up (liked). I couldn’t see a way of removing their like. It seems like an odd thing to be able to do in any case. I can understand removing someone’s comment if it happens to be offensive, but removing the like seems like you’re saying “No you don’t like this”. ETA: It is possible to unlike your _own_ likes. Is this what you mean? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-comment-on-facebook/561251/5 "2010-11-19T21:34:54Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I checked out one of my recent posts that someone had thumbbed up (liked). I couldn’t see a way of removing their like. > > It seems like an odd thing to be able to do in any case. I can understand removing someone’s comment if it happens to be offensive, but removing the like seems like you’re saying “No you don’t like this”. Well, a like is just an extremely brief comment. And some people use it as a very quick way of making someone else’s link, photo, etc. show up on their page, so as to draw other people’s attention to it. My best FB friend does that to mine (and vice versa). ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-comment-on-facebook/561251/6 "2010-11-20T00:11:40Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > ETA: It is possible to unlike your _own_ likes. Is this what you mean? No that I knew about, I think I tracked the problem down to the iphone app, it times out sometimes and shows my like comment on the news feed, but it never actually posts to facebook. Declan