Facebook to allow users to embed posts on any website

Facebook announced that it will allow users to take posts from the social network and embed them on their own blogs or on any websites they wish, a procedure already popular with news sites and bloggers, and which extends the reach of the social network to whatever site exists on the Internet.”When embedded, posts can include pictures, videos, hashtags and other content. People can also ‘like’ and share the post directly from the embed” Facebook’s Dave Capra said in a post.Images from Facebook posts can be used as embeds, like the one from the British monarchy’s page announcing the birth of the royal baby, and from Andy Murray’s page after winning Wimbledon 2013. For starters, Facebook said it is rolling out this service on the dot-coms of CNN, Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, Mashable and People magazine, soon to be followed by many more – up to the moment when it will be available to everyone who installs the proper plug-in on their Internet sites.