Facebook is a business, and Facebook only cares about your interests up to the point where they can study them and profit from access to them. That is why they allow you to "connect" with things. Any benefit you receive is purely incidental.
(Having a description meta tag prevents your header or left-column menu from being used as the teaser text on Facebook, and Meta Tags even lets you customize the description tag text.)
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