Facebook working on ‘dislike’ button, Mark Zuckerberg says

For years, users of Facebook have grown accustomed to the “like” button function, which often has been applied awkwardly, but now a “dislike” button is on the horizon. “Today is the day we get to say we’re working on it and we’re very close to shipping a test of it”.

Mark Zuckerberg has said that his company whose graph is only going northwards, like the number of its users, is set to introduce a dislike button too. He doesn’t want the social media to look like a forum where people downvote for a post. But it has come to realize that people want “the ability to express empathy” on posts about unpleasant news. They may not even accompany all content as disliking advertisements or promoted news stories isn’t likely to please Facebook.

“Not every moment is a good moment”, Zuckerberg said. A Dislike button, or something close to it, is apparently in the works.

Facebook first launched the “like” button in 2009 and it’s become a well-known symbol of the social media website, which has a sign outside of its Menlo Park headquarters with a large thumbs-up.

What I do know is that the much-publicized dislike button will not be the mean-spirited, I think your baby is ugly button that some fear it will be. A Facebook friend posts a poignant photo from war or natural disaster, or perhaps news about a loved one’s death, the loss of a job, a bad breakup. He further added that they were avoiding instances where someone shares an important life event and another person “downvotes it”. Users don’t want to hit like on a post about a car crash or a tragedy.

The answer to that problem might casually be referred to as a dislike button. Others argue that allowing hate pages to remain on Facebook is counterproductive to Zuckerberg’s view of the dislike button. But first, Facebook probably needs a meh button – hello, shruggie ¯_(ツ)_/¯ – for those times when you really couldn’t care less about whatever strange, crazy or offensive thing your wacky family and friends are sharing.

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