Do you remember when Facebook first gave us the “like” button? It was the biggest, new feature to hit Facebook in a while and completely changed the way we used the social network.

It’s going to happen again, and this time, it’s even bigger.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or were just offline the past two days) you know that a lot of sites chose to “black out” in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Obviously these movements would greatly change how we interact with the Internet,  but I was also interested to see how sites would use design to “black out”. I don’t know about you, but I was pretty impressed.

I collected some examples of how all different kinds of sites chose to display their SOPA protests and came across some pretty cool examples.

I’m sure Google’s design approach is no stranger to you. Still, I felt the need to include it.

With Facebook’s new Timeline feature launching for the general public very soon, Facebook Privacy concerns have been all over social media news sources. Discussions on the lack of privacy have come up in many different forms like infographics, video spoofs, polls, etc. In case you haven’t yet seen some of this, here’s a list of interesting things about Facebook privacy that have been posted in the past few days: