For years, Facebook users have been requesting a “Dislike” button on the social media site, next to the over-used Like button.
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The Facebook button is ready to test soon, and depending on how it does they will roll it out. Mark Zuckerberg stated on Tuesday that the company has been testing alternatives to the “like” button so people have the chance to express they are unhappy about a post.
“You don’t want to go through the process of sharing something that’s important to you and have other people down vote it”, Zuckerberg explained. And that’s not something that we think is good for the world. “What they really want is the ability to express empathy“, wrote Business Insider. “Good Lord – “dislike” on that would be a huge flaming mess”, Williamson said.
“If you’re expressing something sad… it may not feel comfortable to “like” that post”, Zuckerberg said. “So I do think it’s important to give people more options than “like”.
Speaking at a public Q&A session this week, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he’s been listening and knows we’ve been calling for a “Dislike” button for years.
Unfortunately, “dislike” is such a simple word that using it is unlikely to “express empathy” and other complex emotions so Facebook would probably have to come up with another name for it.
Instead, it will be for times when clicking “like” on “sad” posts felt insensitive. With the increasing support for the hug button, Zuckerberg confirmed that is has been one of the options they have discussed.
Don’t expect the new button to actually be called Dislike, though.
People post pictures, stories, events, and many of those posts get “Likes”. The two will discuss “how communities can work together to address social and economic challenges”. Candice Wiggs of Westfield told 22News, she worries giving the option to dislike those posts could hurt more than it helps.
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According to one piece of research, released last month, Facebook already accounts for more internet traffic to news sites than Google.
