They have finally read my
mind. Facebook will add the dislike button.
Facebook is to add a
"dislike" button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has
said.
In a Q+A session held at
Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old said the
button would be a way for people to express empathy.
He said Facebook was
"very close" to having it ready for user testing.
A "dislike" button
has been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the
now-iconic "like" button in 2009.
"People have asked
about the 'dislike' button for many years," Mr Zuckerberg told the
audience on Tuesday.
"Probably hundreds of people have asked about
this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get
to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it."
However he went on to say he
did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote"
others' posts.
Instead, it will be for
times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.
Prof Andrea Forte, an expert
in social and participatory media at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said
users will not suddenly turn on each other's posts.
In an email, she wrote:
"They may use a dislike button to express some negative emotions (like
frustration with ads popping up in their feeds) but I doubt it will cause them
to start wantonly disliking pictures of their friends' babies, dogs, cats and
cooking experiments.
"I suspect it will mainly be used to express mild
disapproval, or to express solidarity when someone posts about a negative event
like a death or a loss."
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