Is the Facebook “Share” button being deprecated?

Question

I have a business requirement to add a Share on Facebook button to a site. There are a lot of links on the web that point to this page but that just points to the page about

Answer 1

I believe it has been deprecated in favor of an improved Like button that has similar functionality. The language can be tweaked to 'Recommend', but I found these articles when doing similar research.

http://mashable.com/2011/02/27/facebook-like-button-takes-over-share-button-functionality/

http://visiblefactors.com/blog/994-facebook-likes-meta-data-thumbnails/

Hope it helps.