Starting today, Facebook made a minor change to the terminology associated with Facebook pages created for businesses (which is different than a personal Facebook profile). Facebook changed “Become a Fan” to “Like this”.

For some reason, this is gaining negative publicity (e.g. see this article in PC World and the article and comments in ReadWriteWeb). If you read these comments, it is clear that many people are very outraged by Facebook’s change. Some opponents claim that this change is confusing (since the “Like” feature is already available when someone wants to comment on his/her friends’ posts, comments, or pictures).

Instead of confusing, we think it is more consistent. In fact, in our opinion, this change will work better. Honestly, I never liked that term “Become a Fan”. To me, it always seemed a bit egotistical to ask someone to become a fan of a business.

Do you agree with us? i.e. do you like this change? Or will you boycott Facebook?

Please share your thoughts.