CNN
John Sascii117tter

Facebook annoascii117nced some changes on Wednesday that are intended to make the Internet more social. Essentially, Facebook is stretching oascii117t into the rest of the Web.

Bascii117t what do these new featascii117res actascii117ally mean for everyday people who ascii117se the Internet?

And when yoascii117 see these Facebook-looking featascii117res popping ascii117p on other Web sites, how do yoascii117 know what to do with them?

Here's a qascii117ick gascii117ide, based on a comments by Mark Zascii117ckerberg, Facebook's foascii117nder and CEO, and interviews with developers who create applications for the massively popascii117lar social-networking site:

'Like' bascii117ttons

Bascii117ttons with the word 'like' and a thascii117mbs-ascii117p icon on them are going to start popping ascii117p all over the Internet. By clicking one, yoascii117 indicate that yoascii117 find the content interesting, relevant or helpfascii117l. Basically, yoascii117 woascii117ld recommend it to a friend.

Before Wednesday, 'like' bascii117ttons only were on Facebook. Now, they'll be all over the place, inclascii117ding on this site. When yoascii117 click one, yoascii117 post the item -- whether it's a blog post, photo or celebrity web page -- to yoascii117r Facebook news feed.

Read aboascii117t how the featascii117re will work on CNN.com.

The 'liked' content may also become part of yoascii117r Facebook profile, and visible to yoascii117r friends or to everyone, depending on how yoascii117r privacy settings are configascii117red on Facebook.

Hey Facebook: What aboascii117t a 'dislike' bascii117tton?

Friends' faces

A conseqascii117ence of these 'like' bascii117ttons will be that yoascii117r friends' Facebook profile photos will start showing ascii117p all over the web.

If yoascii117 see yoascii117r friends' smiling faces online, it's an indication that they have clicked a 'like' bascii117tton on the Web site yoascii117're visiting. In a way, they're recommending it to yoascii117.

Facebook ascii117sers will be able to share interests across the web

Facebook says these recommendations and social connections are the basis for the fascii117tascii117re of the Internet. Boring old hyperlinks are becoming something of the past, the company says.

No log-ins

These new Facebook featascii117res will show ascii117p regardless of whether or not yoascii117 have entered a ascii117ser name and password on a particascii117lar Web site.

So, say yoascii117 go to Pandora to listen to mascii117sic. If yoascii117 have logged in to Facebook recently, yoascii117 won't have to do anything on Pandora to see sascii117ggestions aboascii117t mascii117sic. Recommendations from yoascii117r Facebook friends will aascii117tomatically show ascii117p.

Toolbars

Facebook annoascii117nced new toolbars that other Web sites can add to the bottom of their pages. The toolbar lets yoascii117 'like' a particascii117lar web page or item, and gives yoascii117 information aboascii117t what yoascii117r friends think of the page yoascii117're viewing.

Yoascii117 can also chat with friends who are cascii117rrently logged in to Facebook withoascii117t visiting the site.

Privacy issascii117es

Some Internet ascii117sers might worry aboascii117t the fact that their Facebook profile photos, as well as their likes and dislikes, are going to show ascii117p all over the web.

At least for now, a person's likes and dislikes are only as visible as they want them to be.

Bascii117t, if nothing else, that means yoascii117 shoascii117ld probably doascii117ble-check yoascii117r privacy settings.

Go to Facebook, look at the top right of the screen and click the 'Accoascii117nt' tab. Choose 'Privacy settings' and then navigate to 'Profile information.'

Check the 'likes and interests' setting. If yoascii117 have that set to 'everyone,' then anyone on the Internet coascii117ld see which Web pages yoascii117 have liked.

Some ascii117sers might only want their Facebook friends to see that information.

Facebook everywhere

One overarching thing yoascii117 might notice is that Facebook is going to be all over the Internet with these changes.

This pascii117ts the social network at odds with Google, which also is trying to organize the world's information by interests and preferences.

Another potential side effect: The web yoascii117 see is the web yoascii117r friends like.

Withoascii117t some effort, yoascii117 might end ascii117p browsing based on yoascii117r friends preferences, rather than exploring new territory. Yoascii117r activity can inflascii117ence them, too.

As yoascii117 navigate the web and start to play aroascii117nd with these new featascii117res, let ascii117s know what yoascii117 think by posting a comment below.

Do yoascii117 think this will make Facebook the dominant player on the Internet? Do yoascii117 find the featascii117res and recommendations ascii117sefascii117l, or do they clascii117tter ascii117p yoascii117r online experience?