Facebook’s dislike button: what’s not to love?

The patent application was filed on March 23 with the publication date of December 23, 2014 and credits Yigal Dan Rubinstein, Abhishek Doshi, Reshma Khilnani Ebberson, and Cole Gleason as the inventors. Zuckerberg defined which the intention of the fresh Facebook attribute is to build a method for you to “express empathy”, namely not liking a subconscious celebration.

Mark Zuckerberg made it official: Facebook is looking into the “dislike” button.

I can see how sometimes I might like to be able to show that I don’t like something. Finally, others suggested that Facebook may simply give users what they want in the form of a thumbs down icon, though Facebook would need to find a way to guide users away from the negative sentiments already associated with the icon. And if you dislike something will that really be perceived as showing empathy?

Although this is only our estimation and expectation of what the social media giant is planning to do since users have been increasingly demanding a new button, aside from the long existing Like button. Further he mentioned that it won’t be called as “Dislike” button which turns Facebook into a forum where people vote up and down to the posts, it is not the community that Facebook wants to create.

Unfortunately, people write some pretty cruel and nasty things in the comments of people’s posts, but a “dislike” feature would potentially give another method to harass or put-down people on the internet. Many are anxious that a dislike button would lead to cyberbullying or negativity on the social network. For years you’ve been clamoring to express your “dislike” of a post by the click of a button.

In the end, Facebook won’t name the button as “Dislike“, but there are some predictions that the site is comming up with alternative options that might be given to users in addition to “Like”.

Yeung also notes that in 2012, a Facebook engineer answered a question on Quora about why the social network hadn’t yet added a dislike button, which many users have considered a logical counterpoint to the like button.