Facebook requires that you create an external application linking your website to their API
Application id and secret (also sometimes referred as Consumer key and secret or Client id and secret) are what we call an application credentials
This application will link your website example.com to Facebook API and these credentials are needed in order for Facebook users to access your website.
These credentials may also differ in format, name and content depending on the social network.
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