Facebook to add ’empathy’ button

He says it’s an opportunity for him to update Facebook (FB, Tech30) users on how the company is working to make new services.

The most famous social network Facebook has a “like” button since 2009, which users use to express approval of a status, photo or something but users don’t have any button to express their feeling over a bad news. “It is a special day because we’re working on it and shipping it”. This new button type of button is ready to be tested soon, and will be rolled out broadly depending on how it does.

“People have asked about the dislike button for many years”, the 31-year-old billionaire said. “That isn’t what we’re here to build in the world”, Zuckerberg said last December. But later, Facebook came to understand that what users wanted was “to be able to express empathy”, he added. The Facebook co-founder and CEO, Zuckerberg, said that there are ongoing tests conducted on a button that goes beyond the like button.

While reaction buttons such as “I’m sorry“, “interesting” or “dislike” have been suggested in the past, Zuckerberg voiced some concern.

Instead, it will be for times when clicking “like” on “sad” posts felt insensitive. Others argue that allowing hate pages to remain on Facebook is counterproductive to Zuckerberg’s view of the dislike button. There is a perceived belief that this Facebook dislike button feature will only cause negative effect to the ones who made the post. Users don’t want to hit like on a post about a auto crash or a tragedy. To put this one to rest the dislike button is not coming, but “Empathy” could be.

Kristy Nguyen, a student at Western New England University told 22News she thinks it would add drama to the social media site. While previously we’ve had to assume that if our post didn’t receive a certain number of “likes” then our post had no value, now we’ll know without question if our post was “disliked”.

Conan O’Brien thinks so, and on Wednesday’s episode of “Conan”, he revealed some of the other ways he’d like to be able to express himself on Facebook.